Navigating through unknown surroundings comes relatively easy for most humans. However, it is a highly complex task for autonomous mobile robots and automated guided vehicles (AGV). A sensor needs to simultaneously construct a map of its surroundings and find its location within this map. While this task presents a chicken-and-egg problem (a map is needed for the localization and a location is needed for the mapping), the most reliable solution is called Simultaneous Localization and …
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How to Track People with HemiStereo NX 4 years ago
Tracking people’s movements and their behavior is a complex task with many applications in a variety of business areas. Prominent use-cases include people counting, path optimization in retail environments and analyzing in-store consumer behavior. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic introduces new highly demanded solutions such as distance monitoring in public or work spaces. Our new HemiStereo® NX depth camera with integrated AI is ideally suited for realizing this task. Its ultra-wide field of view of …
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