Machine vision specialists SiLC Technologies have launched their new Eyeonic Vision System, which they say is the industry’s most compact and powerful coherent vision system. The new system features the highest resolution, highest precision and longest range while remaining the only FMCW lidar solution to offer polarisation 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 system sets a new benchmark, delivering the highest levels of vision perception to identify and avoid objects with very low latency, even at ranges of more than a kilometre.
At the heart of the Eyeonic Vision System is the company’s fully-integral silicon photonics chip. With roughly 10 millidegrees of angular resolution coupled with millimetre-level precision, it provides more than 10 times the definition and precision of legacy lidar offerings. This enables the Eyeonic Vision Sensor to measure the shape and distance of objects with high precision at great distances.
