Albatroz Engineering Announces

Portable Ground 3D Acquisition Equipment

Date: 2007-04-01

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

In response to the challenge of being present at an event where innovation can be seen and touched, Albatroz Engineering decided to showcase its latest spacial reconstruction tools in an environment full of common household objects that could be modelled on the spot by visitors at the Innovation Marketplace on the 28th of February 2007.

Modelling demonstrations took place all day long using both the LMT (Laser Measurement Tool) and GIM (Geometry in Motion) tools. Both tools have at their core a LiDAR laser used to instantaneously reconstruct objects or environments in 2D or 3D space.

The LMT's portability and wireless interface enabled several different areas of the fair pavilion to be modelled effectively demonstrating the LMT's capabilities and noteworthy efficiency.

GIM, on the other hand, attracted the attention to the show stand. As GIM moved along a rail set across the stand, it generated 3D reconstructions with video images of the entire stand including the people who found themselves drawn to the scene and the nearby sections of the pavilion.

The movie on the rigt presents the modellling process while the image below represents one of the reconstructions created with GIM. while tbe visitors watched abd the visitors that were watching the demonstration.

Demonstration of GIM

Notice that the model is being created in real time and projected on the wall

[45" AVI movie weighing 17,3Mb]