Aeva TechnologiesMountain view is a developer of Lidar Systems located in California. Unveiled AEVA Eve 1v, a high-purpose, noncontact motion sensor is designed on its frequency modified continuous wave (FMCW) sensing technology. The company says that EVE 1V measures the speed of an object with accuracy, repetition and reliability – all ever without making contact with materials. This last point is important for the intended environment of EVE11: Industrial Manufacturing.
Today’s manufacturing lines are under pressure to provide rapid production, tight tolerance and zero defects, often when working with a variety of delicate materials. Traditional touch equipment such as measuring wheels and encoders can slip, wear, and cause expensive downtime. Many non-class options, promising, are either very expensive or decrease in accuracy and reliability in real world conditions, Meena RazakCofounder and Chief Technology Officer at AEVA.
“Eve 1 V was designed to solve the exact gap: a compact, i-saff, noncontact motion sensor that provides submilimimeter-sequence velocity accuracy without touching the material, so manufacturers can eliminate slipage errors, can avoid material damage, and can reduce downtime related to downtime, high-over-downtime can avoid downtrodden, high-over-downtime can be reduced, high-over-downtime can be reduced, high-over-downtime can be reduced. Operations, “Razak says.
Unlike traditional lidar, which sends the explosion of light and wait for those who return to the measurement, FMCW continuously emit a low-power laser while sweeping its frequency. By comparing outgoing and returning signals, it detects frequency shifts that reveal both distance and velocity in real time. The additional measurement of the velocity of an object for its position in a three -dimensional place makes FMCW a type of 4D Lidar.
Eve 1 V is the second member of its Eve 1 family, after launch Ear 1D earlier this yearEve 1D is a compact displacement sensor capable of detecting movement on a micrometer scale, about 1/100 a human hair thickness. “Together, EV1D and Eve 1 V shows how we can take the same FMCW perception platform and tailor it for various industrial requirements: EVE 1D to detect distance measurement and vibration, and EVE1 V for precise velocity and length measurement,” Razak says.
Future application robotics, logistics, and consumer can expand in health, where noncontact sensing may be able to detect microbiration on the human skin for precise pulse and blood-pressure reading.
FMCW Lidar for accurate manufacturing
According to Rezk, the company’s core FMCW architecture, which can basically be developed for a long distance 4D Lidar for automobiles, can be adjusted for highly accurate motion sensing through software and optics. This flexibility means that the system can track the movements at extremely slower, below the fraction of a second millimeter in a factory settings, or it can monitor rapid speed over long distances in other applications.
Avoiding physical contact, ends the need for physical access to wear and tear, slippery, contamination, or part. “It provides three practical benefits in a factory: one, maintenance-free operation in which no measuring wheels can measure delicate, soft, or textured surfaces with no measuring wheels to change or recurry; Keep together, it means that more uptime, stable throwing, and low scrap, he says.
When measuring velocity, engineers often rely on one of the three devices: encoders, laser velocimators, or camera-based systems. Each has its own strength and its shortcomings. Traditional encoders are low cost, but can wear over time. The laser-based velocity system, while accurate, is large and expensive, making them difficult to apply widely. And the camera-based approach may work for some inspection functions, but they usually require markers, controlled lighting and complex processing to measure speed.
Rezk says that Eve 1V system provides a balance of these options. It provides accurate and consistent velocity measurements without contacting the material, making it compact, safe and simple to install. Its outputs are comparable with the current encoder system, and because it does not depend on physical contact, it requires minimal maintenance.
This approach helps cut off from slipages to waste energy, which eliminates the need for maintenance tied to the wearer parts, and eventually reduces long-term operating costs compared with traditional contact-based systems or expensive laser options.
This method avoids stitching frame-by-frame comparisons together and opposes intervention from sunlight, reflection or ambient light. Built on silicon photonics, it is scales on long borders from millimeter-level sensing from micrometer-level sensing. The result is clean, repeated data with minimum noise-Legacy lidar and camera-based system.
Aeva is expected to start full production of Eve 1V in early 2026. Eve 1v appears A recent partnership with LG InotechA subsidiary of South Korea’s LG Group, under which AEVA will supply its Atlas Ultra 4D lidar to automobiles, with consumer electronics, robotics and plans to expand technology in industrial automation.
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