DME 660-004.pdf

General Description 

The DME 660 is a standalone 3D-TOF Distance Measurement Camera with a resolution of 320x240 pixel (QVGA). It is a highly integrated camera system with a wide field of view (FOV). The operating range is up to 10m on white objects. The camera system is a combination of a epc660 sensor board including a lens system, an LED illumination board and a BeagleBone Black host controller board. Even for mobile devices, only a few additional components are needed to integrate this 3D camera, e.g. a housing. The host controller operates the epc660 in all available

 operation modes and reads the distance values over the TCMI communication. The controller reads the imager data, applies calibration and compensation algorithms and delivers the results to an external computer via its integrated API. It is also possible to operate the DME 660 as a standalone sensor system. In this case, application software can be downloaded and run on the BeagleBone Black board also by using the full software framework like the operating system and the 3D-TOF API. 39 full frame TOF images are delivered by the epc660 camera chip in maximal configuration. By using the advanced operation modes, this can be boosted up to more than 1'000 TOF images per second! The high degree of integration lays base for straight-forward system integration with minimal part count. The extremely high sensitivity of the optical front end allows to operate with a low power illumination subsystem which reduces the power consumption of the overall system significantly. The camera comes with a fully documented SDK based on opensource SW and HW.

Features 

■ 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA) 

■ Wide field of view H108° x V77º 

■ Up to 10m distance measurement range on white targets 

■ Low power consumption 

■ Robust and stable 

■ High speed USB or ETHERNET interface 

■ Linux server with 3D-TOF API 

Applications 

■ People detection and counting 

■ Parcel size measurement 

■ Machine safety 

■ Object recognition 

■ Automatic door safety 

■ Humanoid robotics 

■ Helicopter near terrain flight assistance 

■ Man-Machine interface 

■ Gesture control 

■ Body size measurement 

■ General volumetric mapping