New LADAR system announced by API

Automated Precision, Inc. (API) will be showcasing their brand new Laser Detection and Ranging system at IMTS this year. “The patent-pending Dynamic 9D LADAR offers the world’s first interferometry-based LADAR system incorporating Optical Frequency Chirping Interferometry (OFCI) technology.”

Scanning at 20,000 points per second at speeds of 0.2 seconds per square centimetre, the new system promises to be an accurate and efficient one. It is also insensitive to reflectivity, able to measure translucent materials and target features with up to an 85 degree incidence angle. The raster scanning works at up to 50 lines per second with 0.1mm line spacing. The on-board scale reference system for 9D LADAR delivers both 2D and 3D accuracies of 6 µm/m.

“Dynamic 9D LADAR’s compact design, weighing just 10.4Kg, incorporates an integral controller with ethernet communication, allowing for seamless integration to both portal CMM frames or 6-axis industrial robots, including 7-axis rail mounted configurations.

9D LADAR’s iVision smart camera system provides instant part visualization for automated scan path planning, providing both automated feature and targeted region measurement, along with remote measurement operation viability.

API’s Dynamic 9D LADAR delivers X, Y, Z, I, J, K data for each generated cloud point along with the addition of R, G, B data allowing for scanned data to be imaged directly onto the captured camera image.” This, in turn, allows the display of distinct colour contrasts to show things such as surface roughness.

API will be located at booth #135657 on Level 3 of the East building. IMTS will take place from September 12-19 2022 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.