Color Stereo Camera
The Bumblebee®2 from Point Grey is the next generation Bumblebee® stereo vision camera. It provides a balance between 3D data quality, processing speed, size and price. Developed as a drop-in replacement for the original Bumblebee camera, the Bumblebee2 also features double the frame rate and a GPIO connector for external trigger and strobe functionality.
Point Grey Research's IEEE-1394 (FireWire) Stereo Vision camera systems are provided as complete hardware and software packages. Stereo depth information is calculated by software on the robot's onboard computer. (See MobileRanger C3D for a stereo system that does this processing in hardware, which frees computer resources for other work.)
Every Point Grey Stereo Vision camera system includes a free copy of the FlyCapture SDK, which is used for image acquisition and camera control, and the Triclops SDK, which performs image rectification and stereo processing. Additional stereo vision software components are available at no extra cost: the Censys3D SDK, which is ideal for people tracking; and the Multiclops software, which allows integration of multiple cameras into a single coordinate system.
The camera may be mounted on a fixed mount or on a software-controlled pan-tilt unit.
See Also
- MobileRanger C3D stereo vision system and 3D range device with built in hardware level depth processing.