SICK Ranger3

8.3 Configuring Ranger3
Before the camera can be used in a machine vision system, it has to be configured.
This is usually done by setting up the camera in a production-like environment and
evaluate different parameter settings until the result is satisfactory, see "Editing param‐
eters", page 60.
The following can be specified when configuring the Ranger3:
Regions Where on the sensor to measure and dimensions of the
3D output frame.
Exposure time For how long to expose the sensor.
Triggering settings When to make a measurement.
Component-specific settings How to process the measurement result before sending
it to the PC.
All this is specified by setting parameters in Ranger3. The parameters, as well as the
selectors and commands, are organized in hierarchical groups. Each group belongs to
one of the following categories
1)
:
DeviceControl Contains the features related to the control and informa‐
tion of the device.
ImageFormatControl Contains the features related to the format of the
acquired and transmitted images.
AcquisitionControl Contains the features related to image acquisition,
including trigger control.
DigitalIOControl Contains the digital input and output control features.
TimerControl Contains the Timer control features.
EncoderControl Contains the features related to the usage of quadrature
encoders.
EventControl Contains the features related to the generation of Event
notifications by the device.
FileAccessControl Contains the File Access control features.
Scan3dControl Contains the features related to the control of the 3D
scan features.
ChunkDataControl Contains the features related to the Chunk Data Control.
TestControl Contains the features related to the control of the test
features.
TransportLayerControl Contains the features related to the Transport Layer Con‐
trol (Gigabit Ethernet).
8.4 Regions
There are two types of regions:
Sensor regions
RegionSelector = Region0, Region1
Defines the sensor image dimensions and
readout conditions, see "Sensor regions",
page 33.
Extraction regions
RegionSelector = Scan3dExtraction1
Defines the processing and formatting condi‐
tions of the generated 3D linescan output
data, see "Extraction regions", page 33.
It is possible to define multiple regions for both 2D and 3D. In different device versions
different number of sensor and extraction regions are possible. Typically, you use at
least one sensor region for imaging and one sensor and extraction region pair for 3D
profiling purposes. You use the selector RegionSelector to select the region you want to
view and manipulate parameters from, see "Selectors", page 31.
1)
According to GenICam™ SFNC version 2.4.
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