NEXUS LiDAR enabled UAV presentation.

1. NEXUS 800 Powered by HYPACK
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TAKE AERIAL SURVEYING AND MAPPING TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH THE NEXUS

2. Vitad “V” Pradith
Project Lead for Unmanned Systems
Presenter

3. What you will learn from this webinar
• Who is HYPACK?
• LiDAR or Photogrammetry? DO BOTH!
• HYPACK’s value added solutions
• Why use HYPACK for Aerial systems?
• How the NEXUS helps you work!
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4. Who is HYPACK?

5. Multiplatform Support
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• Maritime roots
• Whales can fly?!? A natural
pivot toward the air
• Leverage 30+ years of sensor
integration expertise
• We KNOW multi-sensor
platforms!

6. Hardware Driver Library
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HYPACK has a robust library of
hardware drivers for various
sensors!
•LiDAR
•SONAR
•Inertial Navigation Systems
•Ancillary sensors:
-Sound Velocimeters
-Inclinometers
-Pressure
400+
Total Drivers in HYPACK

7. HYPACK: An End to End Solution
PLANNING
• Project Creation
• Mission Planning
• Sensor Integration
ACQUISITION
• Real Time View
• Targeting
• Data Logging
POST
PROCESSING
• Data Editing
• Smart Filters
• Point Cloud &
Imagery Analysis
DATA ANALYSIS
• Surface
Comparison
• Volumetrics
• Contouring
PRODUCT
CREATION
• XYZ, LAS, PTS
• DXF, KMZ,
WebGL, STL
• Contours, TIN

8. What is your time worth???
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10. Product Design
Philosophy…
• Direct Georeferencing
• Where time is critical
• Streamline Data to
Information process
• Real Time Data Fusion
NEXUS 800 powered by HYPACK

11. What the NEXUS can do that others can’t
• Real time data acquisition / Real time telemetry /
Streamlined data processing
• True multi-sensor support
• Future Upgradability
• Full software pipeline
• Industry leading support!
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12. A Complete Pipeline
Real-time Sensor Fusion and
Georeferencing: Raw Data
Sensor
N….
Raw
Sensor
Raw
Sensor
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Information
Imagery
SONAR
LiDAR

13. HYPACK NEXUS 800:
Multi-Sensor Payload
• HYPACK/HYSWEEP
• Digital Camera
• Thermal Camera (NEW!!!)
• Inertial Navigation System
• Laser Scanner/LiDAR
• Onboard Hi-performance
computing

14. The NEXUS SWAP-C Ratio:
“Nexus: a connection or series of connections linking two or more things”
• Velodyne Puck Lite
(16 channel)
• SBG Ellipse – D
Dual GNSS Inertial
Navigation System
• Canon EOS SL1
(Upgradeable)
• FLIR Vue Pro R
• HYPACK/HYSWEEP
 Future Upgradability
 Ready for tomorrow’s
technology

15. UAV Specs
• Heavy Lifter ~8 lbs (3.7 kg)
• Auto Takeoff/Landing
• 10 – 15 minute flight time (12 min avg)
• Hot swappable power
(no shut down required)
• Area coverage example:
 200 x 200 meter area (40,000 square
meters) covered in 5 minutes at 4
m/s and a 40 meter altitude.
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16. Real Time Data Viewing
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17. Flight ControllerAutonomy Module
• DJI Industrial Flight
Controller
• Flight Planning occurs
through using DJI’s Ground
Station App
(iOS only)
• DJI Ground Station
provides full autonomy to
NEXUS
 Auto Take Off
 Auto Landing
 Return to Home
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18. Industrial Class Platform

19. A tool for
surveyors &
engineers
NEXUS 800:

20. Data Access
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Onboard Computer
Intel Core i7
16GB RAM/512GB SSD
128-bit AES
encrypted
Hi-Speed
Datalink

21. Access Methods to Real Time Kinematic GNSS
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GNSS
Inertial Navigation System
NTRIP Client
Virtual
Reference
Station (VRS)
Radio Modem
400/900 Mhz
GNSS Base
Station
RTCM v3.x

22. NEXUS 800 Data Examples

24. Data Courtesy:
SurvTech Solutions Inc.
Tampa, FL

25. Performance Analysis
Reference Dataset:
GREEN
NEXUS Dataset:
RED

26. HYPACK TIN/Volumetrics Module
Powerful Data Analytics Engine

27. TIN to TIN Differencing (Node Based)
Data
Subset

28. Performance Analysis
Z (Vertical) Difference between
Reference and NEXUS
 0.18 feet = 2.16 inches = 5.486 cm

29. HYPACK Tools for UAV’s
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30. FAA VFR Charts via WMS
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31. Vegetation Filter (Topography)
before
after

32. LiDAR Correlation - Geotagging Images in MBMAX64
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33. Data Products
Portable Web Point Cloud Format Volumetrics Report

34. Cloud 64 – Point Cloud Viewer Colored
by Elevation
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35. LiDAR Point Cloud Colored by RGB
Satellite Image Example
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36. 3D Mesh - Poisson Reconstruction
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37. Q&A
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Contact Us:
Unmanned@hypack.com
facebook.com/hypackinc
twitter.com/hypack
linkedin.com/groups/1990404

38. Thank you!
NEXUS 800 Webinar
Contact Us:
Unmanned@hypack.com
facebook.com/hypackinc
twitter.com/hypack
linkedin.com/groups/1990404