Active Insight Corporation · Core Capability

Integrated Multi-Sensory Metrology

Five industrial cameras, every optical axis aimed at the same part. Watch an X-Cube BSP descend into the pocket of a fixed bracket with 0.50 mm of clearance per side — and see which station can actually measure which degree of freedom, and which one it cannot.

Key point

The five cameras are not a fixed configuration — during development any station can be swapped for a different instrument.

Constant CoreMetrology · MotionFusion · Algorithms

X-Cube · BSP prism this case6DoF pose
Camera ModuleMTF / SFR
AR WaveguideEfficiency / uniformity
Light EngineChromaticity / contrast
Built to your requirementsCustom Development

This Case · What the Cell Measures

Five Simultaneous PerspectivesTop, bottom, left, right and front stations image the same part in the same instant. No station looks outward — every optical axis passes through the DUT centre, checked in code at start-up.
No Single View Sees All Six DoFA top-down view resolves ΔX, ΔZ and yaw but is blind to standoff. A side view resolves standoff and tilt but not in-plane offset. Roll is recovered only from the differential between the two opposed side stations.
Contactless and Datum-FreeNothing probes or clamps the prism. The pose is measured optically and the residual is driven inside the clearance envelope before the part ever reaches the bracket rim.
Converged Under ±10 μmCoarse correction, fine descent and insertion trim bring the lateral residual below 0.010 mm and tilt below 0.02°, with the true cube-to-pocket-wall clearance recomputed every frame.

01 / EQUIPMENT

The Machine Five-Station Metrology Cell · Enclosed Platform

From the outside it is one enclosed cell: granite base, clean chamber, HMI and signal tower. Inside sit five fixed camera stations and a 6-axis stage. Scroll down to pass through the front window and into the alignment zone. Drag to rotate the machine.

02 / MECHANISM

Inside the Zone Five Fixed Stations · One Moving Part

The bracket is bolted to the bench and never moves. Only the X-Cube BSP travels, picked from directly above on the insertion axis so nothing fouls the pocket on the way in. Note what the bracket is: open on top for the insertion axis and CAM-TOP, bored through the floor for CAM-BOT, windowed on all four flanks for the side stations — that is what lets five instruments read one part in the same instant. Every station is aimed at the DUT by direction vector, and the page verifies at start-up that no lens axis misses by more than 0.5°.

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Fused 6DoF PoseCONVERGING

ΔX

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ΔZ

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θx

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θy

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θz

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PREDICTED —mm MIN CLEARANCE · prism to pocket wall · nominal 0.500 mm per side

MAX LENS-AXIS AIM ERROR— °

Observabilityclick a station to drop it

● measured directly ◐ only as a differential pair ○ weak · not observable
Bottom row is the fused 1σ uncertainty (mm / °) with the enabled stations.

03 / DATA

What the Five Stations ReportResidual Convergence · Insertion Envelope

Left: lateral and angular residual falling three decades into the ±10 μm band. Right: the clearance the prism would have if it were seated right now — negative means do not insert. The descent only commits once that curve turns positive.

Residual Convergence▬ lateral mm ▬ tilt °

Insertion Envelopemm · predicted if seated now

LATERAL RESIDUAL

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MAX TILT

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MIN CLEARANCE

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HEIGHT ABOVE RIM

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Illustrative values from the modelled trajectory, not machine measurements. Clearance is computed from the prism's eight corners against the four pocket walls and recomputed every frame.

04 / APPLICATIONS

One metrology core, many parts Beyond the X-Cube BSP

The same five-station metrology core drives every AIC alignment platform. What changes between products is the fixture, the feature set each station keys on and the tolerance budget — not the measurement architecture.

This page uses an X-Cube beam-splitter prism into its bracket as its example because it is the hardest kind of part to align: transparent, datum-free, and destroyed by contact. And the five cameras are only this case’s sensor set: every station is open to negotiation during the development phase, so if your part wants an interferometer, a spectrometer or a displacement probe where a camera sits today, that is a configuration change — not a different machine.

Swap in at any station — the architecture does not change:

InterferometerSpectrometerLaser displacementConfocal probeMTF headThermal cameraYour own instrument

Jump to the case closest to your product — or tell us about a custom one

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Integrated Multi-Sensory Metrology

The Machine Five-Station Metrology Cell · Enclosed Platform

Inside the Zone Five Fixed Stations · One Moving Part

What the Five Stations ReportResidual Convergence · Insertion Envelope

One metrology core, many parts Beyond the X-Cube BSP

Two-Component Active Alignment Assembly