Fixed-Detector Scanner Mirror Layout for Faster 3D Targeting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current scanner opto-mechatronic systems with moving telescopes and multiple motors are prone to technical failures due to cable tension, rupture, or entanglement, especially in remotely operated systems, leading to reduced time resolution and frequent data acquisition challenges.
Innovation Solution
A scanner opto-mechatronic system with a fixed detector and a single moving mirror, utilizing a series of mirrors positioned for precise reflection and a simplified mechanical structure with a single motor, ensuring cables are fixed and minimizing the number of components to reduce technical failures and enable quicker targeting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a telescope with multiple motors and moving components is used to measure images and light from 3D space, then the system can visualize or measure nearly the entire region, but the possibility of technical failure increases due to many components such as motors, motor drivers, mechanical drive components, belts, and cables that move with the telescope
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the measurement function into two independent parts: a fixed detector that remains stationary and a moving mirror assembly that directs light from different regions. This segmentation allows the detector to stay fixed while the mirror handles the scanning function, reducing cable movement and mechanical complexity at the detector end.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the scanning function from the detector assembly and places it in a separate mirror mechanism. The detector is taken out from the moving telescope structure and fixed in position, while the mirror assembly independently handles the directional scanning, separating the functions of detection and scanning into distinct components.
2Ease of operation
If the camera and signal cables are connected to the moving axis of the telescope to enable visualization of regions, then the system can track targets, but the cables are subjected to tension, rupture, or entanglement due to movement
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the detector with the telescope, the invention inverts the approach by keeping the detector fixed and moving the mirror to achieve the same scanning effect. This reversal eliminates the need for cables to move with the detection system, as the fixed detector remains in a stationary position throughout operation.
3Measurement precision
If a complex system with multiple motors and components is used to direct the telescope to a specific target, then the system can achieve precise positioning, but it takes time to direct the system to the target area, reducing time resolution and obstructing frequent data acquisition
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the scanning function from the heavy telescope-detector assembly and places it in a lighter, faster mirror mechanism. This allows the mirror to quickly redirect light to the fixed detector, achieving precise positioning without the inertia and mechanical complexity of moving the entire telescope and detector system.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a system with multiple motors, motor drivers, and mechanical components is used, then the system can perform comprehensive measurements, but the device complexity increases with many components
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the scanning function from the detector assembly and implements it in a separate, simplified mirror mechanism. This separation reduces the mechanical complexity at the detector end, as the fixed detector requires no motors or drive mechanisms, while the mirror assembly handles all scanning operations with minimal components.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively reduces the complexity of light and image measurement to predefined regions, minimizing technical failures and enabling faster data acquisition by maintaining a simple structure with a single axis operation, even in remotely managed conditions.
Implementation Method 1
at least four mirrors (20) that are positioned in the desired position in front of the light/image output window by moving inside the body and reflects the light/image coming from the predefined regions
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a scanner opto-mechatronics system which is used in light/image-measurement in three-dimensional environments, reduces the light measurement and imaging regions to pre-defined regions and enables the measurement or display of these regions.