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SONY dToF liDAR AS-DT1, with its lightweight design, high-precision measurement and strong environmental adaptability, has demonstrated outstanding application potential in multiple fields such AS unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, infrastructure inspection, retail and warehousing.
I. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Field
Precise obstacle avoidance and navigation: The lightweight design of SONY’s AS-DT1 (weighing only 50 grams) makes it an ideal choice for drones, providing high-precision depth perception capabilities without compromising flight performance. Its centimeter-level ranging accuracy and strong resistance to environmental light interference ensure the safe flight of drones in complex environments and prevent collisions.
Power line inspection: In power line inspection, drones need to traverse complex lines and equipment. The SONY AS-DT1 can help drones accurately identify suspended foreign objects on high-voltage lines, such AS kites and plastic bags, to prevent discharge accidents.
Logistics and distribution: In the field of logistics and distribution, drones need to traverse complex environments such as urban streets and high-rise buildings. The SONY AS-DT1 can help drones accurately identify obstacles such AS pedestrians, vehicles, and buildings, ensuring the safety and efficiency of the delivery process.
Emergency rescue: In emergency rescue operations, drones often need to fly in harsh environments, such as fire scenes and earthquake-stricken areas. The outstanding performance of SONY AS-DT1 can help drones fly safely in complex environments and provide strong support for rescue operations.
Ii. Robotics Field
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) : In the warehousing and logistics scenario, SONY AS-DT1 can build a three-dimensional environmental map in real time, accurately identify shelves, pallets and low-reflectivity packaging boxes, and achieve centimeter-level positioning and navigation. Its ability to resist environmental light interference ensures that the robot can operate stably in strong lighting environments.
Service robot: The restaurant food delivery robot can sense suspended tables and chairs AS well as dynamic pedestrians through SONY AS-DT1, achieving zero-contact obstacle avoidance. Medical delivery robots can accurately identify obstacles such as glass doors and transparent partitions that are difficult to detect with traditional sensors.
Iii. Infrastructure Inspection Field
Bridge inspection: Inspection drones equipped with SONY AS-DT1 can conduct non-contact detection of bridge cracks and seepage points. Their long-distance ranging capability reduces the need for manual intervention. The SONY AS-DT1 can also penetrate vegetation obstructions, accurately identify cracks in bridge piers, and reduce the false alarm rate.
Highway monitoring: SONY AS-DT1 can detect road marking wear and potholes in real time, support the vehicle-road coordination system to optimize signal light timing, and alleviate urban congestion. Its outdoor 20-meter distance measurement capability can cover targets such as highway guardrails and tunnel linings, improving inspection efficiency.
Dam inspection: The 40-meter indoor distance measurement capability of SONY AS-DT1 can penetrate the internal structure of buildings to detect minute defects such AS concrete cracks and steel bar corrosion, providing a strong guarantee for the safety of DAMS.
Iv. Retail and Warehousing Sector
Dynamic inventory management: SONY’s A-DT1 can penetrate the shelf gaps and monitor the inventory depth of goods in real time. Its low reflectivity object recognition ability accurately distinguishes black packaging boxes from empty storage locations, improving inventory management efficiency.
Unmanned retail scenario: At self-checkout channels, SONY AS-DT1 can penetrate shopping baskets to identify products, reducing missed scans and misjudgments, and enhancing the shopping experience for customers.
V. Other fields
Topographic mapping and agricultural monitoring: In mapping scenarios, SONY AS-DT1 can generate high-precision 3D point cloud data, facilitating the construction of digital twin cities. Agricultural drones manage variable fertilization by sensing the differences in crop row spacing and soil moisture.
Autonomous driving environment perception: SONY AS-DT1 can be deployed in the forward perception system of autonomous driving vehicles, accurately identifying pedestrians, vehicles and traffic signs within a range of 20 meters. Its anti-strong light feature ensures the safety of tunnel entry and exit scenarios.
Vehicle-road coordination infrastructure: After integrating SONY AS-DT1 into the roadside unit, it can monitor the length of vehicle queues at intersections and the intentions of pedestrians crossing the street in real time, and optimize the timing of traffic lights.
Structural health monitoring: SONY AS-DT1 can regularly scan the exterior walls of buildings and steel structure nodes. By comparing long-term data, it can warn of deformation trends and provide early warnings for building safety.
Security inspection robot: In scenarios such AS substations and chemical plants, SONY AS-DT1 can penetrate pipeline gaps to detect leakage points of equipment. Its aluminum alloy casing meets explosion-proof grade requirements, ensuring the safety and reliability of the inspection process.
Summary
SONY dToF LiDAR AS-DT1 redefines the industrial-grade 3D perception standard with the world’s smallest and lightest body design (29×29×31mm, 50 grams). With a ± 5-centimeter-level ranging accuracy and an ultra-long perception distance of 40 meters indoors and 20 meters outdoors, combined with the SPAD sensor’s breakthrough recognition capability for low-reflectivity objects, it provides high-precision and highly adaptable solutions for fields such as drone obstacle avoidance, warehouse robot navigation, infrastructure inspection, and topographic mapping, becoming the core perception base for the intelligent upgrade of multiple industries.