nexus 800 lidar uav powered by hypack

NEXUS 800 Powered by HYPACK

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TAKE AERIAL SURVEYING AND MAPPING TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH THE NEXUS

Vitad “V” Pradith Project Lead for Unmanned Systems

Presenter

What you will learn from this webinar

• Who is HYPACK?

• LiDAR or Photogrammetry? DO BOTH!

• HYPACK’s value added solutions

• Why use HYPACK for Aerial systems?

• How the NEXUS helps you work!

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Who is HYPACK?

Multiplatform Support

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• Maritime roots

• Whales can fly?!? A natural

pivot toward the air

• Leverage 30+ years of sensor

integration expertise

• We KNOW multi-sensor

platforms!

Hardware Driver Library

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HYPACK has a robust library of

hardware drivers for various

sensors!

•LiDAR

•SONAR

• Inertial Navigation Systems

•Ancillary sensors:

-Sound Velocimeters

- Inclinometers

-Pressure

400+ Total Drivers in HYPACK

HYPACK: An End to End Solution

PLANNING

• Project Creation

• Mission Planning

• Sensor Integration

ACQUISITION

• Real Time View

• Targeting

• Data Logging

POST PROCESSING

• Data Editing

• Smart Filters

• Point Cloud & Imagery Analysis

DATA ANALYSIS

• Surface Comparison

• Volumetrics

• Contouring

PRODUCT CREATION

• XYZ, LAS, PTS

• DXF, KMZ, WebGL, STL

• Contours, TIN

What is your time worth???

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Product Design Philosophy…

• Direct Georeferencing

• Where time is critical

• Streamline Data to Information process

• Real Time Data Fusion

NEXUS 800 powered by HYPACK

What the NEXUS can do that others can’t

• Real time data acquisition / Real time telemetry /

Streamlined data processing

• True multi-sensor support

• Future Upgradability

• Full software pipeline

• Industry leading support!

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A Complete Pipeline

Real-time Sensor Fusion and Georeferencing: Raw Data

Sensor N….

Raw Sensor

Raw Sensor

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Information

Imagery

SONAR

LiDAR

HYPACK NEXUS 800: Multi-Sensor Payload

• HYPACK/HYSWEEP

• Digital Camera

• Thermal Camera (NEW!!!)

• Inertial Navigation System

• Laser Scanner/LiDAR

• Onboard Hi-performance

computing

The NEXUS SWAP-C Ratio: “Nexus: a connection or series of connections linking two or more things”

• Velodyne Puck Lite

(16 channel)

• SBG Ellipse – D

Dual GNSS Inertial

Navigation System

• Canon EOS SL1

(Upgradeable)

• FLIR Vue Pro R

• HYPACK/HYSWEEP

Future Upgradability

Ready for tomorrow’s

technology

UAV Specs

• Heavy Lifter ~8 lbs (3.7 kg)

• Auto Takeoff/Landing

• 10 – 15 minute flight time (12 min avg)

• Hot swappable power

(no shut down required)

• Area coverage example:

200 x 200 meter area (40,000 square

meters) covered in 5 minutes at 4

m/s and a 40 meter altitude.

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Real Time Data Viewing

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Flight Controller\Autonomy Module

• DJI Industrial Flight

Controller

• Flight Planning occurs

through using DJI’s Ground

Station App

(iOS only)

• DJI Ground Station

provides full autonomy to

NEXUS

Auto Take Off

Auto Landing

Return to Home

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Industrial Class Platform

A tool for surveyors & engineers

NEXUS 800:

Data Access

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Onboard Computer

Intel Core i7

16GB RAM/512GB SSD

128-bit AES

encrypted

Hi-Speed

Datalink

Access Methods to Real Time Kinematic GNSS

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GNSS

Inertial Navigation System

NTRIP Client

Virtual

Reference

Station (VRS)

Radio Modem

400/900 Mhz

GNSS Base

Station

RTCM v3.x

NEXUS 800 Data Examples

Data Courtesy:

SurvTech Solutions Inc.

Tampa, FL

Performance Analysis

Reference Dataset:

GREEN

NEXUS Dataset:

RED

HYPACK TIN/Volumetrics Module

Powerful Data Analytics Engine

TIN to TIN Differencing (Node Based)

Data

Subset

Performance Analysis

Z (Vertical) Difference between

Reference and NEXUS

0.18 feet = 2.16 inches = 5.486 cm

HYPACK Tools for UAV’s

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FAA VFR Charts via WMS

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Vegetation Filter (Topography)

before

after

LiDAR Correlation - Geotagging Images in MBMAX64

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Data Products

Portable Web Point Cloud Format Volumetrics Report

Cloud 64 – Point Cloud Viewer Colored by Elevation

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LiDAR Point Cloud Colored by RGB Satellite Image Example

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3D Mesh - Poisson Reconstruction

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Q&A

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Contact Us:

Unmanned@hypack.com

facebook.com/hypackinc

twitter.com/hypack

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Thank you!

NEXUS 800 Webinar

Contact Us:

Unmanned@hypack.com

facebook.com/hypackinc

twitter.com/hypack

linkedin.com/groups/1990404