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High-speed survey with Boston Dynamics Spot robot

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Extend Spot’s reality capture capabilities with Emesent’s versatile rapid survey payload

Looking to increase efficiency, streamline workflows and improve safety during inspection and maintenance tasks? Emesent’s Hovermap-Spot integration enables users to conduct pre-planned and remotely executed LiDAR mapping missions around the clock – reducing time spent on manual survey tasks and minimizing operational disruption.

The robust mount and data connection allows Hovermap to integrate directly with Spot, delivering a seamless workflow for routine inspection using Boston Dynamics inbuilt software. Hovermap’s 300-meter LiDAR range, combined with Emesent’s world leading SLAM algorithms allow users to capture non-stop scans at Spot’s maximum walking pace, making it 10X faster than conventional TLS capture methods. For confined space and other non-routine inspections, Emesent’s long-range radio extends teleoperation communications to 500 meters, enabling the fastest, large area surveys on the market.

Benefit from:

  • Pre-planned missions

    Ability to remotely schedule routine inspections to occur at times that minimize operational disruption, without the need to be onsite.

  • Speed & accuracy

    Rapid continuous capture, survey-quality accuracy and improved situational awareness with world-leading SLAM, designed for robustness and reliability in challenging environments.

  • Versatility

    Deploy the one Hovermap unit on multiple platforms in addition to Spot, delivering improved efficiency and ROI – handheld, backpack, vehicle, pole, cage or drone

  • Coverage

    Unlike other Spot payloads, Hovermap provides 300 meter LiDAR range, ensuring maximum coverage and faster capture of large areas.

  • Long-range control

    Inspection and mapping of larger areas while still maintaining connectivity, enabling continuous scanning – improving efficiency and accelerating time to insight.

Where to use Hovermap with Spot

  • Mining: Routine indoor stockpile volume, processing plant inspection and change detection
  • Energy Plants: Routine condition monitoring and maintenance, inspection during periodic shutdowns, confined space inspections
  • Public Safety: Emergency response, forensic scene analysis
  • Construction and Manufacturing: Confined space and tunnel inspections, progress tracking & as-built modeling, routine asset inspection (post construction)

What’s in the kit?

  • Hovermap Spot Mount with mounting screws and vibration isolators
  • Allows Hovermap ST and ST-X to be mounted securely to the Boston Dynamics Spot robotic platform.
  • Constructed from powder-coated steel and hard anodised aluminum, the mount provides both mechanical impact protection and vibration isolation whilst retaining a large field-of-view for optimum mapping mission performance.
  • Long Range Radio Antenna kit for the Spot mount
  • Delivers improved antenna positioning for maximum range when utilizing Spot with Emesent’s Long Range Radio system.
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Additional platforms

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  • DJI M350 drone

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Backpack Specifications

Backpack Specifications

External Dimensions
498 mm x 370 mm x 185 mm
Battery Storage
Built in battery safety – batteries must be disconnected before stowing Hovermap
Transportation
ATA (Air Transport Association) 300 rated and fits in most aircraft overhead compartments
97Wh batteries are approved to fly on most airlines

Physical Specifications

Weight
4 kg empty
8.5 kg with accessories
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