Aeva Expands Collaboration with SICK to Precision Sensing for Factory Automation Applications

Aeva announced the expansion of its strategic collaboration with SICK, a leading global supplier of solutions for sensor-based industrial applications. SICK and Aeva are collaborating to incorporate Aeva’s FMCW technology into SICK’s portfolio of high accuracy contactless sensors for industrial applications, including for distance and motion control for a variety of factory automation applications.

SICK is a global provider of sensor-based solutions in industrial applications for factory, logistics and process automation technology with a high market presence globally. Under the collaboration, Aeva plans to provide its unique FMCW technology to SICK, including its Aeva CoreVision sensing module along with digital signal processing algorithms tuned for micrometer-precision detection at long standoff distances, as well as micrometer per second velocity measurements.

Using Aeva’s FMCW technology, SICK sensors will provide precise contactless measurements on a variety of surfaces at flexible short to long stand-off distances, regardless of its material, texture or color, and can be used across a wide variety of lighting conditions.