Spider 3d scanner

Industrial 3D Scanner | Space Spider

Scanner type	Handheld	Handheld	Handheld	Handheld	Desktop
3D point accuracy Accuracy is the ability of a measurement to match the actual value of the quantity being measured. , up to	0.05 mm	0.1 mm	0.1 mm	0.1 mm	0.01 mm
3D resolution Resolution is the ability of a scanning system to resolve detail in the object that is being scanned. , up to	0.1 mm	0.2 mm	0.5 mm	0.2 mm	0.029 mm
3D accuracy over distance, up to	0.05 mm + 0.3 mm/m	0.1 mm + 0.3 mm/m	0.1 mm + 0.3 mm/m	0.1 mm + 0.3 mm/m	—
HD Mode	N/A	Yes	No	Yes	N/A
Hybrid geometry and texture tracking	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	N/A
Data processing algorithms	Geometry and texture based	Geometry and texture based	Geometry based	Geometry and texture based	Geometry based
Working distance	0. 2 – 0.3 m	0.4 – 1 m	0.4 – 1 m	0.35 – 1.2 m	—
Volume capture zone	2,000 cm³	61,000 cm³	61,000 cm³	160,000 cm³	324 cm³
Linear field of view, H×W @ closest range	90 × 70 mm	214 × 148 mm	214 × 148 mm	244 × 142 mm	—
Linear field of view, H×W @ furthest range	180 × 140 mm	536 × 371 mm	536 × 371 mm	838 × 488 mm	—
Angular field of view, H×W	30 × 21°	30 × 21°	30 × 21°	38.5 × 23°	—
Ability to capture texture	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Texture resolution	1.3 mp	1.3 mp	—	2.3 mp	6.4 mp
Colors	24 bpp	24 bpp	—	24 bpp	24 bpp
3D reconstruction rate for real-time fusion, up to	7. 5 fps	16 fps	16 fps	22 fps	—
3D reconstruction rate for 3D video recording, up to	7.5 fps	16 fps	16 fps	44 fps	—
3D reconstruction rate for 3D video streaming, up to	—	—	—	80 fps	—
Data acquisition speed, up to	1 mln points/s	18 mln points/s	2 mln points/s	35 mln points/s	1 mln points/s
3D exposure time	0.0002 s	0.0002 s	0.0002 s	0.0002 s	Customizable
2D exposure time	0.0002 s	0.00035 s	0.00035 s	0.0002 s	Customizable
3D light source	Blue LED	Flashbulb	Flashbulb	VCSEL	Blue LED
2D light source	White 6 LED array	White 12 LED array	White 12 LED array	White 12 LED array	RGB LED
Position sensors	—	—	—	Built-in 9 DoF inertial system	—
Display/touchscreen	USB streaming through external computer	USB streaming through external computer	USB streaming through external computer	Integrated 5. 5" half HD, CTP. Optional Wi-Fi/Ethernet video streaming to external device	USB streaming through external computer
Multi-core processing	On external computer	On external computer	On external computer	Embedded processors: NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2 Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore Processor NVIDIA Maxwell™ 1 TFLOPS GPU with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores	On external computer
Interface	1 × USB 2.0, USB 3.0 compatible	1 × USB 2.0, USB 3.0 compatible	1 × USB 2.0, USB 3.0 compatible	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, SD card	USB 3.0
Internal hard drive	—	—	—	512 GB SSD	—

Supported OS	Windows 7, 8 or 10 x64	Windows 7, 8 or 10 x64	Windows 7, 8 or 10 x64	Scanning: No computer required Data processing: Windows 7, 8, 10 x64	Windows 10 x64
Recommended computer requirements	Intel Core i7 or i9, 32 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM	Intel Core i7 or i9, 64+ GB RAM, NVIDIA GPU with 8+ GB VRAM, CUDA 6. 0+	Intel Core i7 or i9, 32 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM	Intel Core i7 or i9, 64+ GB RAM, NVIDIA GPU with 8+ GB VRAM, CUDA 6.0+	Intel Core i7 or i9, 64+ GB RAM, NVIDIA GPU with at least 3 GB VRAM, CUDA 3.5+
Minimum computer requirements	Intel Core i5, i7 or i9, 18 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM	HD: Intel Core i7 or i9, 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 6.0+ and at least 2 GB VRAM SD: Intel Core i5, i7 or i9, 12 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM	Intel Core i5, i7 or i9, 12 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM	HD: Intel Core i7 or i9, 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 6.0+ and at least 4 GB VRAM SD: Intel Core i5, i7 or i9, 32 GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAMA computer is needed only for data processing. Scanning does not require a computer.	Intel Core i5, i7 or i9, 32GB RAM, GPU with 2 GB VRAM

3D mesh	OBJ, PLY, WRL, STL, AOP, ASC, PTX, E57, XYZRGB
CAD	STEP, IGES, X_T
Measurements	CSV, DXF, XML

Power source	AC power or external battery pack	AC power or external battery pack	AC power or external battery pack	Built-in exchangeable battery, optional AC power	AC power
Dimensions, HxDxW	190 × 140 × 130 mm	262 × 158 × 63 mm	262 × 158 × 63 mm	231 × 162 × 230 mm	290 x 290 x 340 mm
Weight	0. 8 kg / 1.8 lb	0.9 kg / 2 lb	0.9 kg / 2 lb	2.6 kg / 5.7 lb	12 kg / 26.7 lb

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how to assemble a 3D scanner from scrap materials and digitize reality — T&P

The first 3D printers that cost less than a gaming computer have become a mandatory attribute of almost any hackspace or fablab (laboratory of technical creativity and electronic art). Now 3D scanners have joined them. MIPT student and employee of the Polytechnic Museum Daniil Velovaty himself assembled a three-dimensional scanner from a laser, a webcam, and scrap materials.

As part of the special project Phystech. Reader" he told T&P about the future of reality scanning.

Daniil Velovaty

It was easy to get used to 3D printers: I drew the desired detail or figure on the computer, loaded it into the printer, and a few hours later I took its embodiment in plastic. Yes, what about plastic, they are already printing in metal, and even in organic matter: they recently printed a living liver. No wonder you want to go further. The next step is scanning. Oddly enough, but before the advent of 3D printers, there was no great need to transfer a real object to the digital world: the creators of games and films simply hired artists who drew whatever was needed. The need for scanners arose only when it was important to convey the relief and shape of an object with very high accuracy. At the same time, neither the duration of the scan nor the cost were often completely unimportant. This is how the first representatives of 3D scanners appeared: lidars.

Lidar (from English Light Detection and Ranging) is an expensive but very accurate device. It allows you to build 3D models of objects with an accuracy of millimeters, the size of which can be compared with the size of a building. From the decoding of the abbreviation LIDAR, it follows that it is any rangefinder that measures distance using light. An incredible number of devices fall under this description. But most often, devices like this are called lidars:

A special system of mirrors is placed inside the device. A phase laser rangefinder is installed here, which measures the distance using a laser, and two mirrors serve to deflect the laser beam in two planes. Thus, the ray runs through a certain sector of space and builds its 3D model. As you might guess, the speed of such a scanner depends on the speed of the rangefinder and the speed of rotation of the mirrors. And since all this is quite complex equipment that requires fine tuning, it costs quite a lot of money. It is much more profitable to order a scan than to buy the device itself. Moreover, you still need to figure out how to use it.

As industrial devices were, to put it mildly, beyond the reach of the average consumer, and the need to scan reality grew, cheap desktop and handheld 3D scanners appeared. The former, as a rule, have a turntable on which the object under study is placed. A few minutes after the start of the scan, we will get the finished model. Of course, the scan quality and the size of the scanned area are incomparable with lidars, but they cost several orders of magnitude cheaper. It is to this class of devices that the scanner we developed belongs. The main problem with these scanners is that the object to be scanned must fit on a turntable, which greatly limits the scope. Another significant disadvantage of these scanners is the incompleteness of scanning and blind spots. If, for example, you try to scan a vase, the scanner will only see its outer part, and not the cavity inside.

The second type of scanners are handheld 3D scanners. They need to be moved around the object by hand, but they build a model with the help of cameras. The operation algorithm of such scanners is much more complicated, they are more expensive, and the quality of the result is worse, but they allow you to scan large objects and spend less time on it. They look something like this:

One of the main advantages of such a scanner is that it is not limited by the scanning area. We can scan, for example, a person's face without having to place their head on a turntable. With a certain diligence, even an entire room can be scanned, if only the positioning accuracy allows it. To improve accuracy, you can stick special marks that the scanner finds and uses as reference points. Actually, in the photo above, this is what was done. This approach limits the scanning area, but, unfortunately, here either the sheep are safe or the wolves are full.

In our lab, we decided to create a cheap 3D scanner with an accuracy comparable to that of 3D printing. This was our first serious project, so we made mistakes, misunderstood a lot, and learned even more along the way. We first built a simple laser rangefinder using a laser pointer and a webcam. To understand how a 2D camera can measure distance, you have to use your imagination. Imagine a thread stretched in the air, along which a spider is crawling. If we stand close to the rope, we see how the spider is crawling straight towards us (not a very pleasant sight). And if now we shine a lamp on this whole structure from the side, we will see a shadow on the floor. Since the light comes from the side, the projection of the spider will move along the projection of the thread. By measuring the distance from the beginning of the thread's shadow to the spider's shadow, we can calculate how far the spider has crawled by multiplying by some factor, because we are creating a contraction mapping.

Our scanner works in much the same way. Only instead of a thread - a laser beam, and instead of a screen with a shadow - a camera. Just as a spider moves along a thread, a spot moves along the laser beam, which occurs when this beam encounters an obstacle. Having found the position of the spot in the photograph, we can determine the distance to the object on which this spot is located. In words, it is difficult. It looks simpler in the picture:

The farther the wall, the closer to the dotted line will be the pfc point on the camera matrix

But such a rangefinder measures the distance to a single point, and this takes a very long time. Therefore, we put a lens on the laser, which turns the laser spot into a laser line. Now we measure the distance to hundreds of points at once (after all, a line can be represented as a set of points), it remains to build a system that allows this line to go through the entire object, and for this we need a turntable on which the object is placed.

The scanner itself is assembled from plywood pieces that have been laser cut. To rotate the table, a stepper motor is used, which is controlled by a board developed by us. It also controls the brightness of the laser and backlight.

The image from the camera is processed on a computer; a Java program was written for this. After scanning is completed, the program generates a so-called point cloud, which, using another program, are combined into a full-fledged model. This model can already be printed on a 3D printer, that is, a copy of a real object can be obtained.

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Until recently, 3D printers seemed to print small details for several hours. Modern 3D scanners make it possible to quickly and easily obtain three-dimensional images of real objects and convert them into digital 3D models. Subsequently, the received content can be used for everything, including as a model for 3D printing.

Thanks to modern technology, scientists are able to recreate the faces of people who lived on Earth thousands of years ago. To do this, they need a skull, a tomography machine and a 3D modeling program. Earlier, we have already talked in detail about the achievements of scientists in this area - we showed how the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti and Pharaoh Tutankhamun looked at one time. Recently, scientists have reached the pharaoh Ramesses II, who is considered one of the most powerful rulers of ancient Egypt. Having studied the skull, they created a model of his head and superimposed on it the details of his appearance, which are mentioned in ancient documents. As a result, they got a man whose appearance meets all the standards of beauty of the ancient Egyptian era. Let's find out how scientists recreated the appearance of Ramesses II and look at the images - what beautiful features are we talking about?

In Australia, there are Narakort Caves - a national park, inside which there are many fossils of ancient animals. At the moment, scientists know about the existence of 26 caves, but there may be hidden tunnels between them. Most likely, inside them lie the remains of animals that scientists have not yet had a chance to study. To find hidden passages, Australian students launched the CaveX project, which developed 15 research robots. Among them, they chose the mechanism that is best suited for exploring the cave - it is a robot in the form of a spider with six limbs. It is believed that this design will allow it not to damage the surface of a historically important site. The robot will be equipped to create a 3D map of the cave, but what exactly can it find inside?

According to 2021 data, the most unsafe places on our planet are the Gaza Strip, Sudan and Somalia. It is believed that tourists who have gone to these places may never return, because there is a high chance of being killed or captured. But crime is almost everywhere - to be convinced of this, it is enough to look at the criminal report. Unfortunately, some criminals cannot be arrested even if there is video from surveillance cameras and even the testimony of witnesses. On the recordings, the faces of thieves and murderers are often blurred, and people cannot remember the special features of the criminals. In order to improve the accuracy of recognizing violators of law and order, scientists decided to create their 3D models so that eyewitnesses could view them from different angles. It is impossible to explain the whole essence of the idea of the researchers in one paragraph, so let's delve into the details.

The collection of the Dutch Postal Museum in The Hague (Netherlands) has a chest containing 300-year-old letters. In those days, there were no envelopes, so to protect letters from prying eyes, the authors folded the paper in the most cunning ways. Sometimes they made cuts, holes and glues to make the letter as difficult to open as possible. So, if the paper was damaged, the recipient could immediately guess that someone had already read his letter. The chest with letters was found only in 1926, so opening the letters without damaging them seemed an impossible task. Indeed, over time, the paper becomes fragile and any attempt to open it could damage it. However, recently scientists decided to study them using a special X-ray, which is used for dental purposes. It turned out that with the help of this device you can read letters without even opening them. Now I will tell you how this is possible.

Have you seen films in which the spy first takes a photo of the key he needs, and then returns again with a duplicate that appears from nowhere? This is usually the plot of films for a robbery: a potential thief does not want to steal the key, so as not to expose himself, quickly photographs it so that make a duplicate of the key according to photo and then return to complete the plan. It would seem that this is something from the level of "hacking a power plant and leaving the whole city without electricity. " But experts are now warning that criminals can indeed use 3D printing technology to break into your home or open a safe. All they need for this is a photo of the keys to the house.

The devastating flames that raged in the 850-year-old cathedral in Paris have been brought under control. The cathedral burned down almost to the ground and will be "closed for restoration", which will require an indescribable amount of money and, according to experts, will take 40-50 years. Donations for the restoration of the famous Notre Dame Cathedral come from all over the world, but there is something else that will help restore the cathedral to its former glory: a 3D map, digitized 3D scans of the building.

Scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have improved the method of fluorescence microscopy in such a way that now it can be used to capture in high resolution the dynamic processes occurring in a living organism. The scientists shared the results of their work in the scientific journal Science, and an example of the visualization of dynamic processes, which was filming the movement of immune cells in a fish embryo, was presented in an article in the journal Nature.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University, with the support of their Canadian and Chinese colleagues, were able to solve the problem of inaccurate reading of objects by 3D laser scanners. The method turned out to be very inexpensive, but effective.

Periodically, we tell you about the various developments of the Disney Research laboratory, which employs dozens of highly qualified specialists in various fields of science. This time, Disney engineers have presented a revolutionary technology for reconstructing a 3D model of a human jaw from photographs or video footage. In the foreseeable future, this technology can be used to create realistic 3D images of people in films, cartoons and video games.

We have repeatedly told you about the process of 3D printing of biological tissues and even human organs on the pages of our website. Science over the past few years has stepped far forward in this area and is not going to give up its positions.

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