RGB Depth Cameras for Robotics
RGB Depth (RGB-D) cameras capture both color and depth information simultaneously, allowing for more sophisticated and efficient robotic systems, enhancing the capability of robots to interact with and understand their environments more effectively.
Orbbec’s RGB-D cameras integrate AI and computer vision technologies to deliver high precision and reliability in various industrial applications, improving productivity and reducing errors in manufacturing processes.
3D cameras capture three-dimensional images of the environment, enabling AMRs to achieve precise positioning & path planning in complex indoor & outdoor scenes. They enhance the AMRs’ perception of surrounding obstacles & improve their autonomy and safety during task execution, ensuring smooth and efficient operation.
Orbbec Gemini 336 and 336L cameras are designed to deliver high quality depth imaging in reflective areas of high-gloss floor paint or tiled floors under indoor incandescent lighting, and in shadowed areas of high dynamic range scenes with sunlight exposure.
Warehouse Robots
RGB-D cameras provide real-time 3D shape and size detection of pallets and totes at warehouses for efficient and error-free pallet handling. The Gemini 335 model significantly enhances the operational efficiency and safety of AMRs in dynamic environments such as logistics centers and industrial zones. Gemini 336L cameras greatly enhanced depth imaging quality in reflective areas of high-gloss floor paint or tiled floors under indoor incandescent lighting.
Forklifts
The integration of RGB-D cameras in forklifts allows for more precise placement and retrieval of pallets in Logistics and storage facilities, minimizing errors during pallet handling and enhancing the safety and efficiency of warehouse operations. Orbbec 3D cameras provide accurate spatial data for fork positioning and ensure safe operations by identifying obstacles.
Delivery Robots
3D cameras enhance the capabilities of indoor and outdoor delivery robots to navigate, avoid obstacles, and stay on course. Orbbec cameras integrated into these robots generate real-time 3D maps and navigation data, allowing for precise object detection and effective obstacle avoidance. This advanced level of environmental awareness enables delivery robots to accurately find their way and maneuver around obstacles, even in complex urban environments. The Gemini 336 cameras are ideal for enhancing depth imaging quality under bright outdoor lighting.
Shelf-Scanning Robots
3D cameras provide precise three-dimensional spatial data, enabling robots to efficiently recognize shelves, locate products, and plan paths. These cameras use advanced imaging technology to capture accurate dimensions and positions of items on shelves in real-time, ensuring high efficiency and accuracy in tasks such as automated picking, inventory management, and goods sorting.
Orbbec 336 cameras enhance depth imaging quality in shadowed areas of high dynamic range scenes with sunlight exposure.
Industrial Inspection Robots
3D cameras provide outdoor inspection robots with advanced three-dimensional data capture and analysis capabilities, enabling automated outdoor inspection tasks. These cameras allow robots to accurately identify and assess the condition of outdoor facilities, detect potential safety hazards, and play a crucial role in maintenance and upkeep, adapting to variable outdoor environments.
Orbbec 336 cameras enhance depth imaging quality in shadowed areas of high dynamic range scenes with sunlight exposure.
Cleaning Robots
3D cameras enhance the autonomy of cleaning robots in complex environments by providing precise depth imaging crucial for intelligent navigation and obstacle avoidance. With Orbbec’s 3D cameras integrated into these robots, they can accurately detect and avoid obstacles, ensuring efficient and safe cleaning in high-traffic areas like parks, shopping centers, and hospitals.
Drones
3D cameras equip drones with real-time three-dimensional spatial perception and environmental understanding, enabling precise aerial navigation and intelligent obstacle avoidance. This allows drones to autonomously plan routes and avoid obstacles during complex flight missions such as terrain mapping, aerial surveillance, or package delivery, ensuring safe flight operations.
Agricultural Robotics
Integrated in agriculture robots, 3D cameras help in identifying plant health, detecting weeds, and ensuring accurate application of fertilizers and pesticides. The depth data from 3D cameras aids in navigating through fields and performing tasks with high precision.
- All lighting conditions
- Multimodal sensing
- Reliable data while in motion
Industrial-grade Connectivity and Environmental Protection
Ubiquitous Connectivity and Seamless Integration
IR-Pass Filter for Peak Performance on Reflective Surfaces
3D cameras capture precise three-dimensional spatial data, enabling industrial robotic arms to perform lifting, structural assembly, or large-scale production operations with precise positioning and flexible control.This precision allows large robotic arms to handle bulky workpieces and navigate complex scenarios with meticulous detail, enhancing operational safety and efficiency.
For collaborative robots (cobots), 3D cameras provide highly accurate perception capabilities, enabling precise object recognition and spatial positioning when working alongside human operators. This allows cobots to perform intricate industrial tasks—such as assembly, inspection, and handling—with greater flexibility and safety.
Bin Picking
3D cameras enable robotic arms to reliably perform complex picking tasks by accurately identifying and locating objects within bins. This allows for precise grasping and manipulation of items. The cameras’ object recognition capabilities further enhance efficiency and precision by enabling robots to differentiate between various items, optimizing sorting and assembly lines.
Palletization
3D cameras provide depth information and spatial awareness, enabling precise singulation and induction processes in palletizing. The integration of 3D cameras in palletizing ensures that products are stacked stably and optimally on pallets, reducing the risk of accidents and boosting efficiency in warehousing and logistics operations.
Assembly
RGB depth cameras enhance the assembly process by providing precise 3D positioning and alignment, ensuring components are accurately and efficiently assembled, and components fit together correctly. The integration of 3D cameras leads to higher quality manufacturing outputs.
Quality Control
By capturing precise three-dimensional data, RGB-Depth cameras can detect even the smallest defects and irregularities, such as surface scratches, dents, or shape deviations, ensuring that each product meets stringent quality standards.
3D cameras monitor the production line in real-time, offering instant feedback and allowing for immediate adjustments to prevent defective products from advancing to the next stage.
Orbbec 336 cameras enhance depth imaging quality in shadowed areas of high dynamic range scenes with sunlight exposure.
Surface Finishing & Material Processing
3D cameras provide precise depth information and enable real-time adjustments, enhancing the quality, efficiency, and safety of industrial processes. For environments that demand more protection, Orbbec offers IP65-rated cameras, ensuring reliable performance even in harsh conditions. Manufacturing robots equipped with Orbbec’s RGB depth cameras can perform tasks with high precision, including welding, dispensing, and painting, as well as surface finishing operations like sanding and polishing, and material handling.
Industrial-grade Connectivity and Environmental Protection
Ubiquitous Connectivity and Seamless Integration
IR-Pass Filter for Peak Performance on Reflective Surfaces
Structured Light Cameras
Humanoid Robots
3D cameras provide humanoid robots with keen visual perception, capturing and analyzing rich three-dimensional space data, allowing robots to more accurately and flexibly simulate human behaviors and perform complex tasks. The integration of 3D cameras enables humanoid robots to perform personalized services, medical assistance, or home care tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Orbbec cameras provide depth visual imaging data, which is crucial for enhancing robots’ autonomous decision-making and operational capabilities.
VSLAM
Utilizing 3D maps generated by depth sensors, robots can obtain precise localization and generate optimal path planning routes. This capability is particularly crucial in unstructured, unknown, or dynamically changing environments, where reliable navigation is essential.
Obstacle Avoidance
Preventing collisions is a major concern in the application of autonomous mobile robots. By leveraging real-time data from depth sensors, robots can detect obstacles in their environment and react promptly to avoid them.
Object Recognition
Depth sensors enable robots to capture 3D information about various objects, including their shape and location. In tasks like surface inspection, robotic arms can detect product defects or irregularities. Additionally, depth sensors can track dynamic objects, providing data on the object’s position, distance, and speed, facilitating real-time interaction and collaboration.
Precise Grasping and Assembly
Depth sensors assist robotic arms with visual servoing, allowing precise calculation and adjustment of grasp points. These sensors also support high-precision assembly tasks, particularly in complex industrial environments.
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- Integration with NVIDIA Jetson Platform and Omniverse
The Orbbec camera driver is integrated with the Jetson platform, and its USD model can interact in the Omniverse high-fidelity simulation environment and test software applications, assisting developers in creating and testing robotic applications.
- Integrated with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor
Orbbec cameras integrated with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor provide robot developers with a full autonomy software stack with little coding effort. Orbbec camera simulation models are also available through the NVIDIA Isaac Sim platform and Metropolis framework, allowing customers to fully utilize NVIDIA-accelerated technologies.
- Compatible with Isaac ROS SDK
The Orbbec cameras are compatible with the NVIDIA Isaac ROS SDK, enabling developers to leverage Isaac ROS VSLAM for advanced visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM), as well as utilize Isaac ROS Nvblox to generate 3D occupancy grid maps for comprehensive environmental modeling.
The Orbbec cameras can be seamlessly integrated into robotic systems based on ROS (Robot Operating System) and ROS 2. Developers can leverage the camera’s capabilities within the ROS/ROS 2 framework for data acquisition, processing, and control, enabling the rapid development and deployment of robotic perception, interaction, and decision-making systems in complex environments.
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Compare the Cameras
Gemini Series Specs
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Feature
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Gemini 335
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Gemini 336
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Gemini 335L
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Gemini 336L
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Operating Environment
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Indoor / Outdoor
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Indoor / Outdoor
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Indoor / Outdoor
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Indoor / Outdoor
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Depth Range [1]
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0.10 - 20m+
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0.10 - 20m+
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0.17 - 20m+
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0.17 - 20m+
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Ideal Range
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0.26 - 3.0m
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0.26 - 3.0m
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0.25 - 6m
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0.25 - 6m
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IMU
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Camera Driver
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UVC
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UVC
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UVC
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UVC
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SDK
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Orbbec SDK
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Orbbec SDK
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Orbbec SDK
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Orbbec SDK
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[1] Theoretical maximum depth range up to 65meters.
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Depth
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Gemini 335
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Gemini 336
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Gemini 335L
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Gemini 336L
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Technology
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Active & Passive Stereo
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Active & Passive Stereo
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Active & Passive Stereo
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Active & Passive Stereo
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Baseline
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50 mm
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50 mm
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95 mm
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95 mm
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Spatial Precision
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≤ 1.5% (1280 x 800 @ 2m & 90% x 90% ROI)
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≤ 1.5% (1280 x 800 @ 2m & 90% x 90% ROI)
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≤ 0.8% (1280 x 800 @ 2m & 90% x 90% ROI)
≤1.6% (1280 x 800 @ 4m & 80% x 80% ROI) |
≤ 0.8% (1280 x 800 @ 2m & 90% x 90% ROI)
≤1.6% (1280 x 800 @ 4m & 80% x 80% ROI) |
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FoV
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90° x 65° @ 2m (1280 x 800)
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90° x 65° @ 2m (1280 x 800)
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90° x 65° @ 2m (1280 x 800)
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90° x 65° @ 2m (1280 x 800)
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Resolution and
Frame Rate |
Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 30fps
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Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 30fps
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Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 30fps
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Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 30fps
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Shutter Type
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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RGB
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Gemini 335
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Gemini 336
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Gemini 335L
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Gemini 336L
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FoV
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86° x 55°
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86° x 55°
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94° x 68°
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94° x 68°
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Resolution and
Frame Rate |
Up to: 1920 x 1080 @ 30fps
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Up to: 1920 x 1080 @ 30fps
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Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 60fps
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Up to: 1280 x 800 @ 60fps
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Shutter Type
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Rolling Shutter
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Rolling Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Physical
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Gemini 335
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Gemini 336
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Gemini 335L
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Gemini 336L
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IR Filter Cover
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N/A
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IR-Pass
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N/A
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IR-Pass
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Protection
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IP5X
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IP5X
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IP65
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IP65
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Connector
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USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 Type-C
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USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 Type-C
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USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 Type-C
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USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 Type-C
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Multi-Device
Sync Port |
8-pin
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8-pin
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8-pin
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8-pin
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TOF / Structured Light Series Specs
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Feature
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Femto Bolt
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Femto Mega
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Femto Mega I
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Astra 2
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Operating Environment
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Indoor / Semi-outdoor
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Indoor / Semi-outdoor
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Indoor / Semi-outdoor
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Indoor / Semi-outdoor
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Depth Range
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0.25-5.46m
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0.25-5.46m
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0.25-5.46m
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0.6m-8m
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IMU
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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SDK
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Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper
Orbbec SDK |
Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper
Orbbec SDK |
Orbbec SDK
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Orbbec SDK
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Depth
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Femto Bolt
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Femto Mega
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Femto Mega I
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Astra 2
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Technology
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iToF
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iToF
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iToF
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Structured Light
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FoV
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WFoV: 120° x 120°
HFoV: 75° x 65° |
WFoV: 120° x 120°
HFoV: 75° x 65° |
WFoV: 120° x 120°
HFoV: 75° x 65° |
58° x 45°
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Depth Accuracy
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<11 mm+0.1% distance
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<11 mm+0.1% distance
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<11 mm+0.1% distance
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≤0.16%(1600 x 1200 @ 1m & 81% ROI)
≤0.3% (1600 x 1200 @ 2m & 81% ROI) |
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Resolution and
Frame Rate |
Up to: 1024 x 1024@15fps
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Up to: 1024 x 1024@15fps
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Up to: 1024 x 1024@10fps
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Up to: 1600x1200@30fps
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Shutter Type
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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Global Shutter
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RGB
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Femto Bolt
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Femto Mega
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Femto Mega I
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Astra 2
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FoV
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80° x 51°
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80° x 51°
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80° x 51°
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16:9 74°x 46°
4:3 59° x 46° |
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Resolution and
Frame Rate |
Up to: 3840 x 2160@15fps
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Up to: 3840 x 2160@15fps
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Up to: 3840 × 2160@3fps
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Up to: 1920x1080@30 fps
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Shutter Type
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Rolling Shutter
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Rolling Shutter
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Rolling Shutter
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Rolling Shutter
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Physical
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Femto Bolt
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Femto Mega
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Femto Mega I
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Astra 2
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Connector
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USB 3.0 Type-C
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USB 3.0 Type-C
Gigabit Ethernet |
Gigabit Ethernet
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USB Type-C
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Protection
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N/A
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N/A
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IP65
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N/A
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Multi-Device
Sync Port |
8-pin
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8-pin
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12-pin A-code
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8-pin
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