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Description of the fusionTrack system
The fusionTrack family of Optical Tracking Systems is a flexible, real-time tracking technology based on a
stereo camera approach. The fusionTrack is based on measuring the 3D position of
fiducials
to provide
real-time orientation and position of each
marker
.
For shock and temperature stability, the cameras inside the fusionTrack housing are floating (see Figure 3.1)
and therefore the fusionTrack is not designed to measure absolute positions (positions and rotations in
respect to the fusionTrack housing / the fixation base). The fusionTrack is designed to provide accurate
relative measurements. ’Relative measurements’ means that position and rotation from one respectively
several markers to each other are computed.
Figure 3.1: Sketch of the fusionTrack device. The cameras (in blue) are mounted on a rigid rod (in green).
This rod is fixed to the ‘shell’ (grey) by rubber elements (red).
3.1 Hardware requirements
The minimum host PC requirement to use the fusionTrack system are:
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM:
- 50 MB (Windows) or 30 MB (Unix/Linux) disc space;
- Window 8.1 (64 bits supported);
- Linux (64 bits supported), gcc 5.4 or clang 3.8.
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