The New Standard For Automated, Non-Contact, Optical Dimensional Metrology API’s 9D LADAR (LAser Detection And Ranging) captures both dimensional and surface geometry data and incorporates a breakthrough technology that is set to revolutionize automated production measurements. The patent-pending 9D LADAR offers the world’s first interferometry-based non-contact measurement system incorporating Optical Frequency Chirping Interferometry (OFCI) technology. API’s OFCI technology uses 20 kHz speed fast laser chirping to generate a wide spectrum for optical interference. The interference signal detected,...

9D LADAR Color Scan Functionality 9D LADAR Performance Comparison With Conventional Laser Radar • 9D LADAR delivers X,Y,Z, and I, J,K data for each generated cloud point along with the addition of R,G,B, (Red, Green, Blue) data allowing for scanned data to be imaged directly onto the captured camera image. This unique capability allows features with distinct background color contrast, surface vectors, surface roughness etc., where it is difficult to isolate with only the standard 3D point cloud data. • The RGB data contained within the generated point cloud allows a full color representation...

Dynamic 9D LADAR Automation Delivering Quality 4.0 QUALITY 4.0 Applications Automated Portable Measurements For more than 30 years, API has pioneered advancements in laser-based metrology equipment for both measurement and calibration tasks. API’s founder and CEO, Dr. Kam Lau, invented the Laser Tracker while working at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) allowing industrial robot accuracies to be determined. API subsequently delivered the world’s 1st 6DoF Laser Tracker in 1989. API also invented the 1st 6DoF Laser Interferometer for machine tool calibration, allowing...

Next Generation Robotic Automated Measurements Non-contact Laser Radar technology has proven its ability to measure automotive parts including full ‘Body-in-White’, as a replacement for CMM measurements adjacent to production lines providing both external and internal measurements of vehicle body regions. 9D LADAR precision automated high-speed ‘raster’ scanning provides both surface geometry point cloud data collection as well as ‘gap and flush’ dimensional data. Laser Radar systems, although offering advantages over CMM measurements, remained too slow to pace production thereby providing an...

9D LADAR Tracking And Calibration The Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) remains a workhorse of manufacturing organizations due to its benchmark accuracies. Typically, CMMs are isolated away from the manufacturing floor, due to their inability to pace production, and they are typically only used for audit inspection tasks. 9D LADAR can be seamlessly integrated with a large volume gantry or bridge style CMM or can be retrofitted, converting an existing tactile CMM to a high-speed optical solution, negating complex CMM programming and decreasing CMM measurement cycles times 10-fold. Robot mounted...

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