SPIN™ Indoor Mapping

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The Sanborn Platform for Indoor Mapping (SPIN™) is a semi-autonomous mobile robotic platform designed exclusively for indoor mapping applications. By utilizing the recent advances made in a variety of 3D technologies including laser scanning, photogrammetry and computer vision, and the state-of-the-art approaches used in robotics, SPIN™ is a leap forward in accurately mapping building interior spaces. SPIN™ is compact, easy-to-operate and a self-navigating system which generates pre-registered spatial data almost in real-time.

SPIN™ For Indoor Mapping

Indoor office/residential environments pose unique challenges for laser scanning using traditional static (tripod-based) systems, owing to the problems of occlusion and added survey times. These issues lead to increased costs. SPIN™, however, uses state-of-the-art Lidar-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms for real-time mapping of the environment and keeping track of the pose and position of the system in a local coordinate system. This then can be exported to global coordinates by using triangulation surveying approaches.

The Sanborn Platform for Indoor Mapping survey solution is designed to collect engineering/survey grade Lidar data in indoor building environments that are time- and resource-consuming with static Lidar sensor platforms, but require an accuracy and resolution that meets the deliverables available through current scanning technologies.

With a system delivering better than 3cm accuracy and a resolution of up to 1cm, SPIN™ products offer unprecedented 3D detail from a platform moving at speeds up to 50 cm/s. The SPIN™ platform leverages Sanborn’s decades of development experience and the latest in Lidar-based SLAM innovation to collect survey-grade Lidar data at 43,200 measurements per second with a 270º FOV, while maintaining a Class 1 Eye Safety Rating.