The RobotEye RE01 Imaging System is a two-axis high performance vision system with unprecedented motion bandwidth. It is conceptually similar to a conventional pan-tilt or gimballed system, however Ocular Robotics' proprietary RobotEye technology allows aperture velocities and accelerations that are an order of magnitude (or better) than other competing systems.

The RE01 is ideally suited for use on ground vehicles, surface craft, aircraft and static installations. The incredible motion bandwidth of the RE01 allows applications such as inertial stabilisation, object tracking, telepresence/teleoperation, environment mapping, rapid disparate point data acquisition and persistent surveillance to be easily achieved.

The following points provide a sample of the applications that can be achieved with an RE01 system enabled by its unique motion characteristics:

• Stabilisation - The RE01 has speed and acceleration characteristics that enable the view of a camera to be mechanically stabilised whilst simultaneously tracking rapidly moving targets (if desired). This capability ensures that stable, well registered imagery can be obtained from an RE01 Imaging System regardless of the motion of the platform to which it is affixed, even in the most demanding environments.
• Telepresence - The RobotEye RE01 Imaging System has motion bandwidth that significantly exceeds the ability of a human to move their field of view. This enables head-tracking telepresence applications to be developed which can match a human's motion one-to-one. In other words, there is no lag between the human motion, and the imagery returned by the RE01 Imaging System. This provides a much more immersive experience than with similar systems which significantly lag behind the human motion. The RE01 System therefore allows the operator to more effectively control a platform, quickly scan the remote environment for threats or follow rapidly moving objects. The inertially slaved RE01 option provides a ready made off the shelf implementation of this behaviour for immediate integration into your system.
• Rapid Sampling - The ability of the RobotEye RE01 Imaging System to move rapidly and accurately between points with accelerations exceeding 50,000°/s² and slew speeds of up to 10,000°/s provides an unprecedented capability to quickly build high resolution maps of the environment around a sensor or rapidly acquire high resolution imagery from points of interest within the field of regard of the RE01. This capability provides a leap in system performance in applications ranging from autonomous vehicle navigation to identifying subjects of interest in crowds.
• High Performance Tracking - The motion bandwidth of the RobotEye RE01 Imaging System allows objects moving with high acceleration and high velocity to be reliably tracked even when in close proximity to the sensor. A wide array of applications benefit from the tracking capabilities of the RE01, ranging from ballistic trajectory tracking, countermeasures, unmanned vehicles and intelligent security systems, through to sports training and broadcasting.

Implementation of these behaviours is straightforward using the RobotEye C++ class library supplied as standard with the RobotEye RE01 Imaging System, allowing quick and easy integration into the target system.

A feature of the RE01 is the freedom to use any C-mount camera of your choice. Ocular Robotics can supply a range of imaging options mounted and integrated into the RE01 system, or the user may simply screw their camera to the RE01 C-mount optical port.