Summary of Contents for Phomatix Dali the PhotoBot
- Page 1 Phomatix Dali, the PhotoBot User Manual Version 1.0 July 2017 5005 W Royal Ln, Suite 183E Irving, TX, 75063 E-Mail: info@phomatix.com Web: www.phomatix.com...
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Page 2: Operation
Dali Phomatix User Manual This user manual describes how to operate Dali the PhotoBot as illustrated in Figure 1 Figure 1: Dali the PhotoBot with a camera. Turn On/Off To start the robot, you need to press On/Off toggle switch on top of the robot. Operation Photographing (Autonomous photographing mode): 1. Turn on the power of the robot (Default mode: stationary rotational photography mode). 2. In order to start the autonomous photographing process, a digital camera such as GoPro or a smartphone needs to be installed on the selfie. 3. Mount a smartphone with a selfie stick facing to the front of the robot. 4. Set the App setting to be in auto-navi mode. - Page 3 Dali Phomatix Photographing (Patterned photographing mode): 1. Turn on the power of the robot. 2. In order to start the patterned photographing process, a digital camera such as GoPro or a smartphone needs to be installed on the selfie. 3. The App setting must be patterned motion mode. 4. Select a pattern at the patterned motion sub-menu. 5. Set the parameter to fine tune the selected mode. Mapping: 1. In order to start the mapping process, a digital camera such as GoPro or a smartphone is needed. 2. The camera setting must be in self-timer mode. The self-timing duration will determine the resolution of the 3D model and the period of image stitching process. The recommended duration is 0.5 second or 2 shots per second. 3. Mount a digital camera or a smartphone with a selfie stick in 90 degree to the robot's proceeding direction. 4. Select remote control mode and control the robot motion. 5. In order to get the best result, maintain the distance of the robot to the wall at 2m. 6. Completely scan the area and process the data with a photo-stitching software. 7. Phomatix also offer a service of photo-stitching software. Upload your photos to a dropbox and send us the link for fast process. Figure 2: Dali App’s main screen...
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Page 4: Image Data Transfer
Dali Phomatix When the Dali app is launched, it connects to robot through Bluetooth automatically. The connection status is indicated in the Bluetooth status (3). If the app does not connect, try “scan” in the sub menu (2) or try reset button of the robot. By selecting the button (6) or (7), robot works in either manual or automatic mode. Followings explain the buttons on the screen. 1: Main menu button. This main menu will show more options for app and robot settings. 2: Sub menu button. This sub menu will show more options for Bluetooth connection 3: Bluetooth connection status 4: Shows currently selected button status 5: Button to hide and show other buttons 6: Button for manual mode selection 7: Button for automatic mode selection 8: Button for pattern mode selection 9: Button for turning left 10: Button for turning right 11: Button for moving forward 12: Button for moving backward 13: Button for stop Image Data Transfer Once the robot scans enough data in the given environment, user can transfer the obtained data for 3D image stitching. Image data in SD card needs to be transferred to a computer for image stitching process (no other data is necessary) 3D Modeling User can use 3D stitching software such as Agisoft Photoscan or an open source code such as XuvTools. In case a user is not familiar with the 3D modeling process, Phomatix provides full service of 3D image stitching free of charge for the first month. The service includes wireframe modeling, surface modeling, 3D cloud point, and full color texture modeling. and illustrate examples of 3D building mapping and human modeling. Figure 3 Figure 4... - Page 5 Dali Phomatix Figure 3: 3D building mapping. Figure 4: 3D human modeling.