Special Equipment for
Panoramic Photography and VR Applications

Fully automated series of measurement

 - by RODEON Integration into LabVIEW

For many years, LabView by National Instruments has been used very successfully for control and regulation functions primarily at universities and in research sector, but now also increasingly for the manufacture and testing in industry. The high performance of the software and good integration of hardware (sensors, gauges, etc.) let LabView become a quasi-standard nowadays.

The technically good integrability of the RODEON components (such as precision positioning) in control and measurement, coupled with its reliability and robustness predestine our modular system for both the academic as well as for industrial use. Based on these advantages, we are offering a LabView-interface in the form of a VI-library since the beginning of 2009. Therefore it is no longer necessary, to develop an appropriate gear/positioning solution and its corresponding LabView interface for every single task. By usage of our RODEONmodular LabView library the integration into your measurement and control circuit will become a piece of cake, which promotes the concentration on the essential work content.

Contents of the library are all VI-functions of the RODEONmodular components (like: Initialization, positioning, parameterization of the rotation speed, triggering the relays 1..10, etc.). To explain the usage of these functions, an example of the reinvented standard control software is included with the VI-library.

Example of use:

Headlight Measurement Setup

Even in the development of new headlights concepts / lighting systems, there comes the point, at which the calculations and simulations have to be verified by a prototype. It is for example in automotive headlamps need to record a two-dimensional isogonal radiation profile.

An inexpensive and very accurate measuring system for the above task is a RODEONmodular VR head in conjunction with a calibrated luxmeter. The headlamp is mounted in its normal installation position on the VR head and rotated with the desired accuracy in two steered axies. The VR Head is controlled using LabView (VI-library), which is also reads the data of the luxmeter. Once started, the system automatically captures the complete 2d brightness profile, addressable with an angular resolution of up to 0.005°. Already known methods of measurement are thus simplified, that a calibration of whole projection screens or cameras become needles.