VisionGauge's^® Motorized Zoom and Focus

VisionGauge® has built-in support for motorized optical systems. With VisionGauge®, both the zoom and focus axes can be motorized using either stepper motors or encoded servomotors. VisionGauge's® user-interface is simple, straightforward and intuitive and gives you full control over your motorized optical system. With VisionGauge®, you can use motorized optics in both operator-driven and fully-automated systems.

VisionGauge® allows you to set both the zoom and focus velocities at runtime. And like all of the other variables in VisionGauge®, these settings can be saved to disk and automatically re-loaded at startup.

With encoded motorized zoom optics, VisionGauge® is continuously aware of the system's optical magnification as you zoom in and out. This means that VisionGauge® is able to carry out high-accuracy measurements at any time, over the full zoom range of the optics. With encoded motorized zoom optics, VisionGauge® can go to programmable and repeatable zoom positions.

VisionGauge's® calibration procedure for encoded motorized zoom optics is very straightforward. The user begins by indicating the number of calibration points that he wants to enter and VisionGauge® distributes these points uniformly over the full zoom range of the optics. For each calibration point, VisionGauge® then brings the optics to the appropriate zoom position and prompts the user to carry out a simple field-of-view calibration. Once all of the points have been entered, VisionGauge® saves the calibration data to disk. As always, this calibration data can be password protected. VisionGauge® will then automatically read-in the calibration data on startup. And even though you only need to calibrate the system at a limited number of zoom positions, VisionGauge® is able to carry out high-accuracy measurements at any position over the full zoom range of the optics by interpolating very accurately between the calibration points.
 

Measure at ANY zoom position, over the FULL ZOOM RANGE of the optics!!!
Encoded servo motor controller

Motorized optics are another powerful tool that VisionGauge® puts at your disposal to easily and effectively solve difficult inspection and measurement applications.
 
 

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Motorized optics (i.e. Power Zoom and / or Focus)

[Motorized Optical Systems - Automated Zoom and Focus]