SiLC Technologies, experts in machine vision, have launched their new Eyeonic™ Vision System, which they’re calling the industry’s most compact and powerful coherent vision system. It has the highest resolution and precision and longest range while remaining the only FMCW lidar to offer polarization information.
The Eyeonic Vision System integrates the company’s unique photonics technology into the industry’s first available turnkey vision solution—a highly flexible subsystem that reduces time to market for manufacturers seeking to incorporate machine vision into their products. Targeted to robotics, autonomous vehicles, smart cameras and other advanced products, the EVS delivers the highest levels of vision perception to identify and avoid objects with very low latency, even at distances of greater than a kilometer.
At the heart of the EVS is the company’s fully integrated silicon photonics chip. With roughly 10 milli-degrees of angular resolution coupled with millimeter-level precision, it provides more than 10 times the definition and precision of legacy lidar offerings. This enables the EVS to measure the shape and distance of objects with high precision at great distances.
The new Vision System couples the Eyeonic Vision Sensor and a digital processing solution based on a powerful FPGA. The compact, flexible architecture of the new system enables synchronization of multiple vision sensors for unlimited points/second. The Eyeonic Vision System is highly versatile, supporting multiple scanner options and providing customers with the flexibility to tailor their designs to maximize performance for distance and field of vision for their application. It is accompanied by a broad range of accessories.
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SiLC will participate in our next Deep Dive 3 in California. Utilizing FMCW at the 1,550-nm wavelength, SiLC’s optical engine is now integrated in a chip.
