Maxim Integrated / Sick
The industry's smallest LiDAR safety laser scanner
Maxim Integrated Products helps reduce the size of Sick's LiDAR-based safety laser scanner 'microScan3 Core I/O' by 50% with software-configurable digital IO products.
With what it claims is the industry's smallest design, Sick is expanding the usability of the 'nanoScan3' safety laser scanner for machines and vehicles that require high performance but have limited installation space available. The developers at Maxim and Sick worked together to optimize the scanner design and replaced several discrete components with a combination of the software-configurable digital IO 'Max14914' and the parasitically powered digital input 'Max22191' as well as other Maxim ICs. This enabled them to halve the size of the 'nanoScan3' compared to the 'microScan3 Core I/O' - the 'nanoScan3' has a height of only 8 cm. Due to this reduced size, the laser scanner can be flexibly mounted on various autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs), mobile platforms and robots, allowing them to navigate safely in the confined areas of warehouses and storage facilities.
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