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Interfacing Gocator To Aurora Vision Studio

This document explains how to interface a Gocator 3D sensor with Aurora Vision Studio software in order to process point cloud data. Key steps include verifying the Gocator's IP address, accessing its browser-based interface to configure output data, and using specific Aurora Vision filters that retrieve surface scans, profiles, and measurements from the Gocator. Examples are provided to demonstrate getting different data types from the sensor and displaying them in the studio.

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Interfacing Gocator To Aurora Vision Studio

This document explains how to interface a Gocator 3D sensor with Aurora Vision Studio software in order to process point cloud data. Key steps include verifying the Gocator's IP address, accessing its browser-based interface to configure output data, and using specific Aurora Vision filters that retrieve surface scans, profiles, and measurements from the Gocator. Examples are provided to demonstrate getting different data types from the sensor and displaying them in the studio.

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Interfacing Gocator to Aurora Vision Studio

Purpose and requirement


This document explains how to interface a Gocator sensor to Aurora Vision Studio.

A Gocator is an advanced sensor created by LMI Technologies. It is purposed for 3D


machine vision and processing point clouds. The Gocator has many functionalities
including:

 Scanning objects and representing them as a point cloud or intensity images,


 Various representations of scans,
 Basic tools for 3D processing like: filtering, thresholding etc.,
 Tools for performing measurements.

Required equipment:

 Gocator Firmware Release 3.2 or later


 Aurora Vision Studio 4.10 Professional or later

Setting up Aurora Vision Studio with a Gocator for the first time
Each sensor is shipped with a default IP address of 192.168.1.10. So before working with
the Gocator you must make sure that the IP address has been set correctly and is unique
for each device in the network. You can verify that with the steps described below:

1. Connect a Gocator to the PC running Aurora Vision Studio Professional.


2. Power up the Gocator, connect it to the PC via Ethernet interface.
3. Open Control Panel on your PC.
4. Find Network and Sharing Center.
5. Choose Change adapter settings.
6. Right-click on unidentified network connection, choose Properties.
7. In Ethernet Properties find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click
Properties.
8. In General tab, choose Use the following IP address and set:
a. IP address to (for example) 192.168.1.5
b. Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
9. Click OK and Close. Now you should be able to connect with the Gocator. You can
verify this using your web browser.
10. In a search tab, type 192.168.1.10 and click Enter.
11. You should see this user interface:
12. The provided browser-based user interface allows you to configure the parameters
of the Gocator sensor. Before working with Gocator in Aurora Vision Studio it is
required to set parameters in the browser interface because from the Studio side you
are unable to change them. In Aurora Vision you will see data the same as in the
browser. To send specific data outputs to Aurora Vision Studio click on the "Output"
tab and there select Ethernet output. Then you must choose the data to send. Note
that marking all outputs is optional so it is possible to mark only these which are
interesting for you. For example, with the setup shown below you will be able to
acquire Surface and Surface Intensity in Aurora Vision Studio. For the outputs in the
Measurement section there are also specified ID's. The same ID should be later set
on the Aurora Vision side.

13. Now go back to Aurora Vision Studio. In Image Acquisition (Third Party) section find
LMI and double-click. Choose Gocator_GrabSurface to grab a surface
or Gocator_GrabProfile to grab a profile. Run or iterate the program. It is
recommended to use the other option for testing. If everything works fine you will
receive the point cloud or the profile of the object from your Gocator Note that this
filter has an input inAddress, but it is not necessary to use it if there is only one
Gocator connected with your PC. You must set this input if there are more sensors.

14. If no problems occurred as far, it means you have successfully connected Aurora
Vision Studio with the Gocator.

Troubleshooting
If you had any problems during the connection process, you could find some solutions here.

 If you cannot connect with a Gocator, please verify your Ethernet connection. Unplug
your Internet cable and plug the cable from the Gocator.
 Verify whether you have correctly set IP address.
 If the device cannot connect, use the Security button on your Master device.
 Make sure your browser uses the newest version of Flash.
 In the case that other page is displayed on the 192.168.1.10 address press Ctrl + F5
to force a cache refresh.

If you meet the problem we have not mentioned above, please let us know, so that we
could investigate it and add it to this section.

Gocator filters in Aurora Vision Studio


Full list of filters intended to work with Gocator devices you can find under this link.

Working with Emulator


Gocator Emulator is a software that allows for running a virtual sensor instead of using the
real one. Emulator's interface is identical as the one in a web browser. Thanks to that you
can get acquainted with all functionalities that the Gocator provides. To start working
download the proper tools package from: http://lmi3d.com/support. Then to run the
application first unzip the package then find GoEmulator file and run it. The emulator lets
you to change a language and select version. After launching the application start from step
12 according to the walkthrough in chapter 3. After starting GoEmulator, you must choose a
scenario to be run. It is possible to display data from scenarios in Aurora Vision Studio. The
connection between Aurora Vision Studio and GoEmulator should be set automatically -
you do not have to set a specific IP.

Examples
In this chapter several examples are presented to help you understand how to use
functionalities described above and to help you learn how to work with the Gocator's user
interface and filters in Aurora Vision Studio.

Example 1 - getting profile

To grab profile from a Gocator (in this case Emulator) follow the steps below:

 Choose scenario:

 In the "Scan" tab run the scenario:


 In the "Output" tab make sure that the profile top output is marked:

 In Aurora Vision Studio choose the Gocator_GrabUniformProfile filter and add the


output outProfileData to a preview window:
Example 2 - getting surface

To grab surface from a Gocator (in this case Emulator) follow the steps below:

 Choose scenario:

 In the "Scan" tab run the scenario:


 In the "Output" tab make sure that the profile top output is marked:

 In Aurora Vision Studio choose the Gocator_GrabSurface filter and add the


output outSurface to a preview window:
Example 3 - getting measurements

To grab measurement from a Gocator (in this case Emulator) follow the steps below:

 Choose scenario:

 In the "Scan" tab run the scenario:


 In the "Measure" tab choose required measurements:

 In the "Output" tab make sure that the output data you would like to send is marked:
 In Aurora Vision Studio choose the Gocator_GrabMeasurement filter and add the
output outValue to a preview window. Please note that the data output from a
previous paragraph has a specific ID, so you must enter this value in Aurora Vision
Studio - in Property window there is the parameter named inMeasurementID that
should be set to 9, because our goal is to display the value of hole's radius:
https://docs.adaptive-vision.com/current/studio/application_notes/Interfacing_gocator.html

https://docs.adaptive-vision.com/current/studio/application_notes/Interfacing_gocator.html

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