High-speed Project in England (01/2004)

SIMI completes a major project and ships a turnkey solution for high-speed motion capturing to Loughborough/UK. Using two state-of-the-art, synchronized computers, SIMI set up a system for capturing complex movements with 12 high-speed cameras connected by several hundred meters of Firewire cables. In total the cameras are recording approx. 300 MByte of high-resolution color images per second which are saved to hard disks.

 

Using SIMI°Motion as motion capture tool

The capturing of video data is realized with the motion analysis software SIMI°Motion. Taking into account that synchronized recording of high speed cameras produces a huge amount of data, the power of two high-end PCs had to be used. Each of these can handle 6 cameras running at 50 frames per second.

 

Long distance firewire

The IEEE 1394 standard, better known as Firewire or i-link, is already well established in the field of industrial vision. Consequently, we decided to use

Basler 301fc high-speed color cameras with firewire interface. In order to provide the best results concerning flexibility in positioning the cameras, long distances of firewire cabling had to be bypassed. This challenge was partly solved with fiber-optic transmitters, which guarantee the full bandwidth of firewire over distances of several hundred metres.