Autonomous Vehicles
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Real-time, reliable tracking and performance when you need it
Real-time, reliable tracking and performance when you need it
Vicon’s motion capture systems enable detailed testing of autonomous vehicle behaviors, including response times, decision-making, and interaction with pedestrians or other vehicles in simulated environments.
By tracking human movement and other traffic dynamics, Vicon helps autonomous systems better understand and predict how pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles will behave, improving safety and navigation.
Vicon’s motion capture technology provides a high-fidelity way to simulate real-world scenarios for autonomous vehicle training, refining the algorithms that guide vehicle decisions in dynamic, unpredictable environments.
Start your journey hereWorcester Polytechnic Institute’s Robotics Engineering Department, led by Assistant Professor Nitin Sanket, uses Vicon motion capture to advance autonomous drone research. Imagine a world where drones help with pollination, searching for disaster survivors, delivering in hostile environments or monitoring crops – all by themselves. By leveraging Tracker 4 and 14 Vicon Vero cameras, the team achieves precise, real-time tracking in a controlled environment to prototype systems quickly. “Vicon just gives you that peace of mind which you want as a researcher,” says Sanket. “You focus on your research, and a Vicon setup just enables you to do that.” The lab’s work has already tripled motion estimation speeds, pushing boundaries to achieve smarter, faster, and safer autonomous drones for complex environments like forests and disaster zones.
Vicon’s motion capture technology plays a vital role in advancing autonomous vehicle research and development. By providing precise, real-time UAV tracking with low latency, Vicon systems enable engineers to measure and analyze the movement of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles (UGVs and UAVs) with unparalleled accuracy. Using Tracker 4 software, researchers can capture data with six degrees of freedom (6DoF), ensuring a comprehensive understanding of vehicle behavior in dynamic environments. Vicon’s ability to handle large-scale tracking in warehouse-sized or outdoor setups makes it ideal for simulating complex traffic systems and evaluating self-driving technologies.
The integration of active marker systems and the high-speed capabilities of Vicon cameras like Valkyrie ensures seamless tracking of fast-moving objects like drones. The robust API and compatibility with platforms such as ROS, Unity, and MATLAB allow for easy integration into existing workflows.
Trusted by organizations like NASA, Boeing, and BMW, Vicon empowers autonomous vehicle researchers to innovate with confidence, making it a critical tool for pushing the boundaries of mobility technology. “Vicon’s system provides the highest order of positional and angular precision, essential for ground-truth data in localization experiments,” states a researcher from a leading institution.
Vicon’s Tracker 4 delivers unparalleled precision and real-time motion tracking for complex engineering challenges. Designed specifically for demanding applications, Tracker captures six degrees of freedom (6DoF) data with low latency, ensuring unmatched accuracy to 0.017mm – three times better than competitors. Whether enhancing robotic engineering solutions, optimizing motion in engineering, or tracking UAVs, Vicon’s technology excels in warehouse-scale and outdoor environments.
The drone tracking system, powered by Vicon’s Tracker 4 software and Valkyrie cameras, provides high-speed, split-second insights for drone tracking movement and localization experiments. With up to 26MP resolution, Valkyrie seamlessly captures fast-moving objects like drones, offering engineers robust, real-time data. Fully compatible with ROS, MATLAB, Simulink, and Unity, Vicon integrates effortlessly into workflows, enabling precision in both simulation and real-world testing.
Vicon’s turnkey solutions and seamless DataStream access empower engineers to tackle dynamic environments, prototype faster, and achieve breakthroughs in autonomous systems, robotics, and industrial automation. With free lifetime support, Vicon ensures your engineering motion workflows are optimized for success.
From robot tracking to human factors engineering, design method optimization to virtual engineering and previsualization to virtual reality, Tracker will open up all of these things and more, as it’s designed for demanding, and technically complex engineering applications.
Valkyrie is the most powerful motion capture camera ever brought to market, offered with four different specs with four different focuses: resolution, speed, value, and strobeless.
Vero combines market-leading resolution and speed at an unrivalled price point.
Vero has on-board sensors that monitor camera position and temperature to ensure optimal performance at all times.
Find all the accessories you need for your application here, ready to buy online: suits of all kinds, if capturing people, and the markers for affixing to the body or rigid objects, plus tape to attach them.
Support is a large part of the Vicon offering and it’s something we’re very proud of. Not only do new customers receive a one year warranty on their hardware, but all of our customers benefit from basic phone, email and web technical support for the life of their system.
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