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Odos Imaging bought by Rockwell Automation


Rockwell Automation has acquired 3D time-of-flight company Odos Imaging. Rockwell Automation will add the Scottish firm’s technology to its sensing products for use in automotive and general assembly, packaging and material handling, and logistics. ‘Tis acquisition enables


us to build on our portfolio of smart sensing and safety products, an important part of the foundation for the connected enterprise,’ said Lee Lane, Rockwell Automation’s vice president and general manager of safety, sensing and connectivity business. ‘It enables us to expand our existing capabilities by bringing 3D time-of-flight sensor technology to industrial applications.’ Founded in 2010 and located


in Edinburgh, Scotland, Odos Imaging won the Vision Award in 2014 at the Vision show in Stuttgart for its time-of-flight technology. Its cameras provide megapixel resolution, making it suitable for industrial imaging applications. ‘We are delighted to be


joining Rockwell Automation and continue the development of 3D imaging solutions for industrial applications,’ said Chris Yates, CEO of Odos Imaging. ‘Rockwell Automation is a company we have long admired for its ongoing commitment to innovation and substantial domain expertise.’ Rockwell Automation, with


headquarters in Milwaukee, USA, employs around 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.


Frame grabbers taken to edge of atmosphere to image exoplanets


Two Active Silicon frame grabbers are being launched on a scientific balloon high into the Earth’s atmosphere as part of a project to explore Earth-like exoplanets. Te high-altitude balloon will contain an imaging payload to examine debris disks and exozodiacal dust around neighbouring stars. Te project, known as PICTURE-C (Planetary


Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment – Coronagraph), is being undertaken by Te University of Massachusetts’ Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology, and will entail two flights scheduled for September 2018 and September 2019. Tis is the latest experiment in the ongoing PICTURE series of missions, with previous research rockets successfully launched in 2015 and 2011. Te planned mission will comprise a 60cm off-


axis unobscured telescope and a high-contrast coronagraph being launched in a high-altitude balloon, which will rise to approximately 40km above the Earth’s surface. Nasa’s Wallops Arc Second Pointer (WASP)


gondola will then be used to point the scientific instruments at observation targets with arc-


News from EMVA By Thomas Lübkemeier


Looking to 2018, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) has organised a series of key events that have been established in the European and international machine vision community, either as standalone conferences or alongside important trade shows. In spring the forum Control


Vision Talks takes place during the first three days of the Control trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. From 24 to 26 April this series of application- oriented presentations brings hands-on implementation examples and new machine vision technology to the visitors of the international trade fair for quality assurance. In May, EMVA will hold the


Parma Vision Night on the evening prior to the opening of


8 Imaging and Machine Vision Europe • December 2017/January 2018


the SPS IPC Drives fair in Parma, Italy, offering a networking opportunity to the stakeholders of machine vision technology in Italy. This is followed by the highlight event in the first half of the year, the EMVA business conference, which takes place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 7 to 9 June. Participants can now register under the attractive Early Bird conditions; more information can be found at www.emva.org.


After the summer break, from 5 September, the third European Machine Vision Forum will take place for three days, bringing together research and industry in Bologna, Italy. The last quarter of 2018 will be dominated by Vision 2018 from 6 to 8 November at Messe Stuttgart. Here, EMVA will run


the International Machine Vision Standards booth, together with its partner associations. On the evening prior to the opening of the trade fair it has become tradition that EMVA hosts the get-together event, EMVA International Vision Night. In addition to this rich calendar of events, some other formats are currently under discussion, among which is a repetition of the highly successful Embedded Vision Europe conference, which took place for the first time in Stuttgart in October 2017. Details will be announced soon. On behalf of the EMVA board and the whole EMVA team, I wish all Imaging and Machine Vision Europe readers happy Christmas holidays and a successful start to the New Year.


@imveurope www.imveurope.com


second accuracy and stability. Results from the experiment are due to be presented by the researchers in January 2019. Te two Phoenix PC/104-plus frame grabbers


from Active Silicon are to be used in the acquisition system of a low-order wavefront sensor, a wavefront corrector that will modify time-varying aberrations such as pointing jitter to improve the accuracy of readings. High-speed, low-latency acquisition is


essential to the success of the experiment, as the researchers are aiming for a frame rate of 200Hz with a mean acquisition latency of less than 180μs.


Active Silicon


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