Stereo Cameras

Industrial-Grade 3D Stereo Vision for Image-Guided Robotics

Thanks to the Basler Stereo Camera series, robots can perceive their environment in real time. With the pre-installed onboard software package and matching application software, these cameras are suitable for typical robotics tasks, such as pick-and-place. The industry-compliant interface standards GenICam, GigE Vision, Rest API, and ROS ensure maximum compatibility. High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode is perfectly suited for interpreting complex scenes with both highly reflective and nonreflective objects. Real-time estimation of camera position and orientation is made possible by the combination of stereo-based visual odometry (SVO) and an integrated inertial measurement unit (IMU). With the Nvidia Tegra K1, onboard processing and evaluation of 3D data is performed for direct integration into the robot application without additional hardware. Enabling robots to perceive their environment in real time: the left camera provides a base image, while a depth image is created by triangulating the stereo images using the SGM method. This serves as input for generating the point cloud and for 3D reconstruction. The confidence image provides the amount of confidence in the measured values for further processing.