Exyn achieves world’s first portable real-time point cloud colourization

Marilyn Scales | January 17, 2022 | 10:59 am News 
ExynPak is a hand-held LiDAR device that provides models of underground openings in real-time. Credit: Exyn Technologies.

Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in multi-platform autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) for complex, GPS-denied industrial environments, has unveiled the world’s first real-time colourized point cloud visualization on a handheld LiDAR scanner, the ExynPak. This accomplishment marks one of Exyn’s many contributions to autonomous robotics across several industries including mining, infrastructure inspection, and construction.

Even in its early beta phase, ExynPak users can capture precise, colourized 3-D models 20 to 30 times faster than a traditional stationery tripod or terrestrial scanner. Powered by ExynAI, the ExynPak ‘drapes’ real-time red-green-blue (RGB) information captured through two hemispherical fixed cameras onto point clouds created by a gimbaled Velodyne LiDAR Puck LITE providing operators a complete colourized 360° view of their environment.

Boasting a three-hour battery life, the ExynPak is capable of capturing dozens of scans in a single shift with a real-time feed, ensuring maximum coverage. And further refinement through Exyn’s proprietary post-processing pipeline, ExSLAM, can correct drift to about 0.1% per distance traveled.

“If you watch any good sci-fi movie or show, colourized 3-D models are everywhere, said Exyn chief technology officer Jason Derenick. “We’ve seen photogrammetry and other post-processed LiDAR scans colourize point clouds through photos and/or RGB data, but this is the first time colourized point clouds have been streamed to an operator in real time.”

The untapped potential of high-fidelity, precise 3-D models has already revolutionized workflows in geological studies (mining) and will continue to revolutionize workflows in construction, reality capture, digital twinning, industrial inspection and more. Equipped with a colourized ExynPak, a one- or two-man surveying team will be capable of capturing entire structures, tunnels, and GPS-denied environments in a matter of  hours, rather than days or even weeks.

Exyn has successfully commercialized industrial-grade multi-platform autonomous AI with major customers in mining, construction, and logistics. For more information about Exyn, please visit www.Exyn.com.

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