Custom Control Panels With Photogrammetry
Celena Holtzberg
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The latest generation of PhotoRobot Controls makes our automation-driven photography technology more versatile and modular than ever. Expanded controls now enable wider synchronization and configuration of computer-guided processes across multiple machines at once. This arrives with multilingual controls, and new user interface options adaptable to various operator-levels.
PhotoRobot solutions range from custom product photography modules to 3D photographic devices for academia, museum collections, and medical applications. Among these, there is also a new variant of the universal photography Cube robot (the Cube Compact), and a new modular setup for the Case 850. Both have evolved in cooperation with customers and partners to better adapt to studio needs.
Other recent projects include PhotoRobot ART, Air-Cargo, and PINK, the Medical Robot Photographer. ART and Air-Cargo use modular PhotoRobot technology to serve completely different industries. The first proposes a photography solution for automated 3D documentation and visualization for archeology and museums. Air-Cargo on the other hand acts as a user-friendly solution for photographing luggage, such as in airport terminals or on cruise-ships.
Meanwhile, PINK is an entirely new project and custom machine design. It proposes a procedure for health-care providers to automate picture-taking for breast cancer treatment. The device itself functions as an easy-to-use photo booth to reduce time and human resource consuming manual photography processes. It can also obtain 3D images for use in medical AI / AR applications to predict the results of breast cancer surgeries.
Expanded functionality of PhotoRobot Controls makes automating complex photography tasks across multiple systems even simpler. The software provides pre-programmable command over one or more robots simultaneously, and ease-of-integration with 3rd party technology.
This allows our engineers to design custom modules around existing technology, or to further customize photography machines on request. Either option guarantees the same robust hardware and high-level productivity businesses expect of PhotoRobot.
Further, the control software supports various user-levels, from absolute beginner to advanced machine operators. In fact, thanks to software Presets and Wizard modes, even staff with little to no training can functionally use the machinery. All it takes is setting up the automations once to make complex processes easily repeatable by any human resources.
Software Photoshoot Wizards serve as an alternative to manual hardware and sequence configuration. This feature combines pre-programmable capture and editing operations with a simplified control interface.
In this way, teams can configure and save multiple wizards for different types of photoshoots and unique applications. When active, the control interface then displays only the instructions necessary to production, step-by-step with visual guidelines.
Complex processes thus become easily repeatable tasks, from connecting the photography equipment, cameras and lighting, to capturing and editing photos. Meanwhile, presets within each wizard can automatically manage sequences, post-processing, and file delivery.
For businesses who want to hide complex controls in the background, Kiosk modes make machine operation nearly fool-proof. Kiosk modes provide machine operators with an extremely user-friendly alternative to the traditional controls interface.
In this way, learning curves and onboarding requirements are minimal. Kiosk modes can even simplify machine operation down to a start button, or a quick scan or a barcode. This allows businesses to employ warehouse workers with very little training, including outsourced talent, freelancers, or student interns.
For further ease-of-use, the local control systems behind each module have multilingual functionality. Users can change languages in software settings to enable automated translations via Google Translate API. Translations then function across the local app, including for Wizards modes, Kiosk modes, viewer configuration and other integrations.
As the manufacturer, PhotoRobot can build brand-new photography solutions for clients with extremely special requests. However, usually an existing design or a combination of robots can answer for nearly any business demand or photography application.
For example, there are multi-purpose 360 turntables like the Turning Platform, and different variants of the Cube or Centerless Table. The modularity of these systems aims to meet the specific space, environmental, technological and output requirements of clients.
In cases which a combination of robots will best meet business needs, PhotoRobot modules are highly configurable. It might be for instance combining the Case 850 turntable with the Cube for jewelry photography. Another example might be integrating the Robotic Camera Arm or a Multi-Cam rig into a workspace.
Whatever the solution, each module is highly customizable and adaptable for any project or type of photography, large or small. This includes photography for any operation from smaller webshops, to larger eCommerce businesses, and industrial-scale production halls.
This helps control dust exposure for example when using the Cube with a mannequin torso, when exposure is surprisingly high. There is also a built-in output for the laser to remove the need for an extra laserbox. Further, the control unit is inside the machine, so there is no cabling and fewer potential points of failure.
Recent modules of the Case 850 better equip this 360 turntable to photograph different categories of products. These include configurations for jewelry product photography, and photographing wine collections. In both applications, the turntable functions in combination with the Cube. Meanwhile, other photographic accessories are in use to stage objects, control background lighting, and position cameras for capture sequences.
For this, there is now also an optional, secondary 90-degree camera mount for photographing top views. The mount fixes to a portal directly above the turntable, and trains cameras on the absolute center of rotation. This helps for example when incorporating top-views of a wine bottle, such as its cork, into the natural production workflow.
In this way, airport and cruise ship staff are able to operate the equipment with limited to no training. All workers have to do is check that luggage is in view of the camera, and scan a start barcode. The machines then automatically take pictures, with complex software operations running out of sight and mind in the background.
The modularity of these systems propose a solution for the advanced digitization of various types of museum collection items. They dramatically reduce production times of 360 / 3D imagery, while ensuring exceptional handling, care, and security of objects.
This is for objects of various types, sizes and material, including textiles, apparel and clothing. Thus, each system accounts for the granularity of surfaces, variety of materials, and the requirements to document specific object details.
Finally, PINK is a prototype medical robot photographer that features Kiosk mode for extremely simple operation. Its design evolved in cooperation with Maria Joo Cardoso, Coordinator of the Breast Unit Surgical Team of the Champalimaud Foundation.
PINK takes photos with no photographer at the clinic, and without any training necessary for medical staff to photograph patients. Staff simply guide patients onto a spot, and scan a barcode to begin the photography sequence. All lighting, hardware, picture-taking, image download and post-processing operations are then automatic and run in the background.
Start with the 01_CesiumWorld level in the Cesium for Unreal Samples. Or, set up a new world with a Cesium World Terrain and Cesium SunSky as outlined in the Cesium for Unreal Quickstart guide.
Is Aerometrex Denver Photogrammetry missing from the asset list? Visit the Aerometrex Denver Photogrammetry Asset Depot page and click Add to my assets. Then return to Unreal Engine, close the Cesium ion Assets panel, and click the Add button again on the Cesium panel to re-open and refresh the asset list.
Alternatively, you can double click on the Aerometrex Denver Photogrammetry in the World Outliner. This will move the scene view to the location of the photogrammetry. You can navigate using the scene view to the location where you would like the world origin to be, and use the Place Georeference Origin Here button.
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