MOTILE ROBOTICS CHOOSES VICON FOR US ARMY RESEARCH PROJECT

 

28 April 2010, Oxford, UK: Vicon, the leading provider of motion capture products for the defense, life science and entertainment industries, is pleased to announce that Motile Robotics, Inc., developer of bio-inspired technologies, has purchased a 16 camera T160 Vicon motion capture system with Nexus and Tracker software. The system will be used for a ten year research project tracking multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) and ground robots as part of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA). The MAST CTA is a research consortium with members from academia, industry, and the US Army.

Motile Robotics will be collaborating on the project with consortium lead BAE Systems, ARL, and the MAST Consortium Members. The project will be managed from Motile Robotics corporate headquarters in Joppa, MD.

The Vicon system will be installed in ARL’s Experimentation Center and will include three areas representing different environments; a jungle, a rough terrain desert and a two story urban dwelling. Motile Robotics chose the Vicon T160 camera for its ability to quickly and accurately monitor the movements of UAVs, MAVs, and ground robots thanks to the 16 megapixel resolution and Gigabit Ethernet connection.

Kenneth Dawson, President of Motile Robotics explains, “We are extremely proud to be involved in a task such as this. By pursuing the advancement of micro and nano technology coupled with state of the art autonomous systems we can help make the next generation of technology safer, cheaper, and more effective. Ultimately, the applications of this research may influence medical device design and capabilities, search and rescue tools, and even battery design.”

Douglas Reinke, CEO at Vicon said, “Motile Robotics is a very exciting company and I’m extremely proud Vicon is part of such important research. This project will be instrumental in pushing forward the research and technological development of UAVs and ground robots.”

The 16 camera system was installed in March 2010 with plans for the initial kickoff of the experimentation center in April 2010.

 

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Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, and match moving software. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters: a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Vicon’s service company House of Moves.

Vicon is a subsidiary of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image-understanding solutions for the Entertainment, Defense, Life Science and Engineering markets. Other holdings include: 2d3, a manufacturer of specialized image understanding software for defense applications; Yotta DCL our highways surveying business in the UK; and Yotta MVS, a leading US provider of data collection services for the assessment of property taxation.

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