hi I'm Chris Terrio of tag object a business partner of Mitutoyo corporation we
are here today at Automate 2017 at McCormick Place in Chicago Illinois and
I'd like to show you a couple of the demonstrations for up and coming
products by Diagnostics and military partnership in this first demonstration
we showcase the power of the tag technology along with the digital
telecentric objectives specifically the tag technology enables us to change
focus in millionths of a second in fact our theoretical frame rates limitation
it's about three million now of course tariffs today cannot
achieve to speed so we're doing the next best thing and we paired it with a
camera that can operate about 180 frames per second now the inspector itself is
composed of the camera the tag let's a couple additional optics and demitted to
use telecentric lens it is entirely controlled by the tag off driving
electronics which synchronizes the light source the camera and the lens all
together this enables us to do what we call rain pipe frame focusing which
means that every frame of the camera as fast as the camera can go will be at a
different focal location the result as you can see on the screen it's three
separate photo locations generated by one optical system all at the same time
specifically in this case we're talking about volumes per second since each
frame is refreshed 60 times per second the tag off the inspector just received
at the tradeshow the gold award from the hissing system design Innovation Award
for 2017 in the second demonstration we are showcasing the Diagnostics this
prototype in this case we're applying our technology for a much more large
field application here towards machine vision 3d scene inspection and robotic
guidance specifically instead of gearing or technology with a micro lens we
actually added several n2 it this enabled us to go from
a standard depth of field of millimeters to centimeters to meters of depth of
field this enables us to do frame by frame focusing by pairing as a system
with a camera that can operate up to 360 frames per second so that we can then
arbitrarily choose various focal planes to inspect in real time basically in
this application up for dissemination we are showing five focal planes perfectly
in focus simultaneously the first three focal
planes are focused on inspecting the vials as it passed as the nearest part
of the camera in fact the first image look at the
front of the vial the second image at the center and the third image at the
back of it this information would then enable us to actually recreate the full
3d information and a full 3d model of the vial in real time as it goes across
now of course if our technology is so fast we can also continuously inspect
other areas of interest in the volume so in this case the court image is actually
looking as a viral in the back as it comes across and finally the fifth image
is looking at infinity enabling us to actually see any objects that would be
approaching to the 3d reconstruction scene or for example this was a robotic
application for Avada guidance and robotics automation the tag that can
actually enable a lot more precise pick-and-place location specifically
thanks to the progressive nature of the zepho fields of natural physical optics
using the tag lens and the tag tip we can actually generate XYZ information
for every to focus element meaning that as the robotic arm comes closer and
closer to the part to fix it we'll know at higher and higher resolution the
location in XY and Z meaning when the parts at infinity it will have a rough
idea where it is within meters when the part is getting
closer it's going to start knowing its location in the width in centimeters and
as the robot starts to hone in on the part it will actually start to get
millimeter and eventually submillimeter accuracy to really be able to detect and
pick up the locations of the part with very high precision and lots of Downton