The patented technology at the heart of our systems enables them to meet performance levels that exceed by an order of magnitude or more, those of other commonly used sensor pointing technologies. Specifically, the capabilities described below enable sensors to be used far more effectively and in ways not previously possible. See Case Studies for examples of how our customers have used these unprecedented capabilities
Acceleration -The extremely high rates of acceleration, exceeding 50,000°/s2, allow behaviours such as the inertial stabilisation of a sensor's field of view on any mobile platform, tracking of objects that display high accelerations and velocities, the simultaneous performance of the previous two behaviours, rapid point to point motion for disparate point data collection and environment mapping, and high speed arbitrary path scanning.
Speed -It is in fact the coupling of high accelerations along with the high final speeds of up to 10,000°/s that makes the behaviours mentioned in the previous point achievable. When applied to tasks requiring constant high speed such as scanning range sensors our technology enables the continual adapting of the scan region on the fly and may jump between fixed path scanning and arbitrary path scanning in an instant as required.
Accuracy -While delivering their impressive levels of speed and acceleration our systems maintain the high levels of accuracy required by many of the tasks in their areas of application, ensuring accurate registration of sensor data.
Ocular Robotic solutions not only have the dynamic performance characteristics to meet the requirements of the most demanding tasks, they also deliver them in a package that is ideally suited to withstanding the harsh land, air and sea environments common to many application areas. Important features of our systems, including those that give them their ability to tolerate harsh environments, are covered in the points below:
Robustness - The structure of our systems means that all sensors, drive components and control electronics remain stationary and reside underneath the housing of the platform to which the system is mounted, protecting them from physical damage and the effects of dust, water and other environmental contaminants.
Environmental Sealing and Protection - The part of our systems' that extend above the platform's housing is straightforwardly environmentally sealed to whatever degree required by an application.
Reliability - The low mechanical stress operation of the technology ensures continuous operation at high levels of performance over very long periods of time without failure.
Size and Weight - An implementation of our technology will almost always return a significantly smaller and lighter device than alternative technologies, while maintaining vastly superior dynamic capabilities.
Scalability - The technology's scalability allows systems to be constructed to suit the size and weight constraints of many applications.
Signal Path - A system's signal path may be configured to accommodate the aperture, positioning and divergence of nearly any sensor.