Manufacturer: ShenZhen Nuoxinjiatong Limited Partnership Co. Address: Room 2722, 6018 Longgang Avenue, Fujizhidi building, ShenZhen, GuangDong Unit PC PC Set PC PC PC PC PC PC PC PC QTY 18 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 6 1 1 Unit QTY PN3 User Manual Hardware Setup 1. Overview 1.1 Main Hardware list PN3 Standard Item PN3 Sensor PN3 Transceiver Body Straps Charging Dock Type-C/ USB Revert Cable Type-C Charging Cable Software Dongle EVA case PN3 add-on fingers kit Item PN3 Sensor Charging Dock Type-C Charging Cable Recommended OS: Windows 10 Direct X9 OpenGL 4.4 CPU: 3.0 GHz i5 processor RAM: 4GB of memory 1.2 Computer Requirements 1.3 Topological Diagram 2. Hardware information 2.1 PN3 Sensor Wireless MEMS inertial sensor. Gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer integrated. After pull off the charging cable, the sensor will automatically turn on. If they are not connected with Axis Studio software, they will automatically turn off after 5min. Even if we can automatically turn on the PN3 sensors, we still can manually control it. Press the sensor button on the top for about 2s to turn on the sensor. Press the button for about 5s to turn off the sensor. The indicator light of the sensor will display the status. ( Refer to the PN3 Sensor Turn on the PN3 Sensors
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>>Manually Light Indicator below) Light Indicator Light status Description Slow Blink Sensor in standby mode to save the power Fast Blink Sensor in working mode, calculating the transferring the data Solid light There is magnetic interference environment around the sensor Red light Sensor low battery/charging Green light Sensor in channel 1 Blue light Sensor in channel 2 Purple light Sensor in channel 3 Detailed parameters Item size weight parameters Item parameters 27.9 x 16.2 x 11.6 Battery capacity 42mAh mm 4.1g 1.5 2.0 3.7V Range of gyroscope 2000dps Working hours 5h Data calculation frame rate 600Hz Accelerometer range 8g Data output frame rate 60Hz Minimum resolution 0.02degrees time delay 20ms Roll / Pitch 0.5, Yaw Waterproof grade IP66 Dynamic attitude Roll /Pitch 1.0, Yaw working temperature
-5C - 40C Charging time 1hr Static attitude accuracy accuracy working voltage Charging Insert the PN3 sensor into the charging box for charging. 2.2 PN3 Transceiver The data transceiver is mainly used for instruction sending and data receiving. Command sending: the data transceiver receives the command from axis studio and sends it to each sensor through 2.4GHz wireless network. Data receiving: the data transceiver receives the data from the sensor in real time through the 2.4GHz wireless network, synchronizes the time of the data, and transmits the data to the Axis Studio software. Light Instruction Light status Description Red solid light System setting up (usually 10s) or Hardware error Green light Transceiver in channel 1 Blue light Transceiver in channel 2 Purple light Transceiver in channel 3 Yellow light Stop broadcasting Detailed parameters Item Parameters Item Parameters size 38.5 x 17.2 x 6.7 mm Interface type USB Type-C weight 2.8g transmission distance 8m 2.3 PN3 gloves We use PN3 gloves for finger mocap. Install Sensors Insert the pn3 sensors into the gloves first, then wear the gloves on your hand. 2.4 Charging Case Case for charging and storing sensors. It's also an essential part for calibration. Detailed parameters Item Length Width Height Number of sockets Interface type 2.5 Suitcase Item Parameters 145mm 38mm 25mm 6 USB-C Handy EVA suitcase 310260110mm Size 2.6 Body Straps Use the appropriate length of strap that fits the performer for each segment. Attach the straps according to the diagram below. Please do wash the strap with laundry bag. Do not Tumble Dry. Item Size Shoulder and back strap 3.8cm35cm3.8cm47cm 10cm115cm 5cm70cm 5cm70cm 5cm55cm 5cm55cm 5cm40cm 5cm40cm 5cm27.5cm Detailed parameters Waist strap Thigh strap Head strap Upper arm bandage Leg bandage Small arm strap Foot bandage Hand bandage 2.7 Wibu dongle Used for software activation and payment function unlocking. 3.Preparing the Capture Area Axis Studio contains magnetometers, magnetometer sensors can be affected by strong magnetic environment. Users must operate the sensors in an environment with the least amount of magnetic interference. If you choose to use Perception Neuron 3 Inertial System in a location with strong magnetic interference, utilize our Anti-mag mode found in our software. Maximum working temperature of equipment: 40 Maximum humidity: 80% (no condensation) 4. Working mode introduction There are six different wearing modes. You can wear the corresponding straps and sensors according to different needs. For example, if you only need to capture hand movements or upper body movements, you do not need to wear a full set of devices. 4.1 Wear straps Choose the appropriate length of bandage to fit all parts of the human body, and wear the bandage according to the position in the figure below. Because the PN3 sensor measures the movement of bones, it is necessary to eliminate the interference of muscle stretching and shaking as much as possible. The wearable position needs to choose the position with the least amount of muscle, which can capture the data better. The posture calibration in the future will recalculate the wearing position. Even if there is a little error between the wearing position and the picture, it can be used normally. 4.2 Insert sensors Insert the PN3 sensor into the base of the strap to ensure that it will not fall off due to movement. Software Setup 1. Overview 1.1 Version list Software Version Windows (Microsoft) Microsoft Windows 10 Axis Studio (Noitom) Axis_Studio_x64_2_4 1.2 Installation Run the installer to initiate the installation process. Follow the installation prompts and install Axis Studio. We recommend installing the software in the default directory. 1.3 Activate Plug in the Wibu dongle. Click activate, input activation code and click next. If there are more than 2 wibu dongles in your computer, please choose the right USB dongle for activation. Click activate Click ok to run the Axis Studio software. 2. First launch capture sessions. 2.1 Project management Create project Click New Project. You can create or open project. Use Projects to manage all the files associated with motion Enter the project name and choose the location of the project. Selecting Add default body size will include body size preset into your project. Instead of create project, you can also opening a existing project, such as the sample project we Open Project provided. Click Open Project. Select Sample Project folder. 2.2 Connect PN3 hardware When connecting the transceiver for the first time, the following interface will pop up, please click Yes. This step allows Axis Studio software to automatically identify the transceiver without manual setup. USB mode If the transceiver has been deployed successfully, the interface should be as shown in the figure. Click the green connection button to enter the wizard mode. Plug and unplug the charging box and the PNS sensor will automatically turn on. Click next after opening. Place a non-iron table or high stool in the center of the moving capture area, stack the antimagnetic suitcase on the table, and put the sensor charging dock on the suitcase. Click Next when you're done. This step will carry out four checks. If the orange exclamation mark as shown in the figure appears, clicking the exclamation mark will show the cause of the error. Please check the device according to the solution on the picture, and click the next step until all the four items are correct. Please refer to the wearing part in the hardware setting for wearing. Each sensor has a unique part of the human body, and the wrong position can lead to a posture error. If you have properly worn the body straps and installed the PN3 sensor, click next to enter calibration. Enter this part, click finish button will enter calibration interface. 2.3 Posture Calibration Posture calibration can be divided into ASTBP posedifferent working mode match different calibration pose. Calibration pose ATBP AT AT AS AT ATBP Working mode Full body Full body with glove Arm only Lower body Upper body Glove only cannot be manually checked. Details A Pose When the working mode is automatic identification, the system will automatically identify different working modes and automatically check the corresponding calibration attitude, which Stand straight, arms facing down with palms facing your body. Position feet distance approximately the same distance of your hip width and maintain feet parallel to each other. S Pose Crouch down with feet flat on the ground while maintaining feet and legs parallel to each other. Extend arms forward with palms facing down. T Pose Stand straight spread out arms perpendicular to your body's upward position, with palms facing down. If you are using gloves, extend fingers and position thumb in a resting position. B Pose Place your hands together in front of your chest. Palm to stick. The thumb and the other four fingers are at an Angle of about 45 degrees. P Pose Gently knead the thumb between the forefinger and the straight thumb. Try to keep your thumb on a straight line from the base of your finger to the tip of your finger. The middle finger, ring finger and little finger can also be bent naturally. Start calibration Calibration completed If you have learned to calibrate the action, click start, and you will hear the sound of the three-
second countdown. At this time, it is time to prepare. At this time, the actor should adjust his posture to keep the same posture as the one on the picture. If you have completed the calibration properly, the interface should be as shown in the figure. 2.4 Measure Body Segment Length Axis Studio allows users to input their own body size dimensions if the provided default body size presets do not apply. Prior to capturing, choose the body size preset that fits the actors body dimension closest before carrying out the posture calibration. Inertial motion capture accuracy is affected by the body segment length of the Avatar. Please refer to measurement guide for bone measurement. 2.5 Set Parameter Refer to 3.7- Solver Parameter. 3. Capturing Interface 3.1 3D view functions 3.2 Suits 3.3 Sensor Map Sensor signal strength (round dot) Green is good Yellow is medium Red is bad Grey is no sensor linked You can customize the role name in the role name option box in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner are the motion capture mode and the number of capture frames. Magnetic environment (Square dot) Green is goodG Yellow is poorP Red is severeS Grey is no sensor linked or in Anti-mag Mode 3.4 Body Dimension 3.5 Device Detail Displays detailed information of the individual sensors, including sensor ID, sensor signal, magnetic levels, and battery life. 3.6 Solver parameter Adjust algorithm behavior to control motion capture performance. Scenario Constrain. Single Level Constrain: If you are doing motion capture on a flat floor, use Single Level Free Climbing: If you are capturing go upstairs, downstairs or any motion without a certain floor, use Free Climbing. Hip Locked: Hip Locked means lock your Avatar in the certain position, you can use it as running on a treadmill or hanging wire. Hands/Hip contact height auto detect Check this box to do different height of hand and hip contact in single level mode. Contact Points performance. movement with hand. Choose which body segment will make contact with the floor or a solid surface during the For most scenarios we choose foot contact, selected by default. If you want to record a Contact such as cartwheel, select both the foot and the hand contact. Constraint Mode Normal Mode: For normal situation. to adapt the current mocap state. Contact Constraint Tolerance Steady Contact: Select steady contact will let contact point more steady. Customize: When the above default parameter mode is not applicable, adjust the parameter Axis Studio will use a pattern recognition algorithm to determine the contact between the feet and ground. The Step Stiffness value affects the speed of this status change. Smaller values will plant the feet firmly on the ground and larger values will allow the feet to slide easily while contacting the ground. Joint Constraint Tolerance the tolerance of the gaps. The smaller the value is, the gaps will be smaller. Contact Sensitivity There are gaps between different body segments, and Joint constraint tolerance is to modify The step constraint value determines the threshold a foot contact is activated. A higher value increases sensitivity of the foot contact algorithm. A low value reduces the sensitivity of a foot contact. Adjust the yaw direction of the Character. You can use it to control the Avatar direction directly in third party software. Adjust the pitch direction of the Character. If you find the Avatar is too leaned forward than it should be, you can make the Pitch value a little lower. Or if you find the Avatar is too leaned back, make the Pitch value higher. 3.7 Record Function Yaw Pitch Click red icon start/stop record. 4. Editing Interface 4.1 Data Process In edit view, review and perform post processing of your captured data. Axis Studio provides an abundance of optimized algorithms to achieve an ideal contact result. Adjustments of the effect can be done by single frames or interval frames values. By click Data Process button after the first time of opening a new recording data, Axis Studio incorporates an automatic post-processing algorithm that will optimize the original motion capture file, such as make-up lost frames during wireless data transfer or correct sensor error data produced by unwanted muscle movement during real-time motion capture. Several files will take longer than others to open due to the amount of post-processing that may be required. 4.2 Contact Editing Window The line color indicates a floor contact captured on particular body segment. L Hand: Left hand contact editing area. R Hand: Right hand contact editing area L Foot: Left foot contact editing area. R Foot: Right foot contact editing area. Right click and drag to modify the frames that you want to edit contact/uncontact points. Change the length of the frames that will be displayed in the bar in order to edit frame by frame. See example below, a capture with 2363 frames, where the visible frames are not long enough to show and edit each frame. If you change the length to make the bar to show a certain length of frame (e.g frame 864-1023) only then you will be able to select and edit each frame as needed. After you edit the body segments contact points successfully, you can click Data Process button to get an optimized data result. You can choose button to undo your editing process, and button to redo your editing process. After you undo or redo the contact editing, you always need to click Data Process button to make your editing become effective. When you click the data process, you may found other segment might be changed, the reason is the algorithm will work with the whole data, if you change one part, the other data might be impacted, so you need to use the mark edit function to protect the data which you don't want to change. Hold down the right mouse button and drag a piece of data, you will see mark edit function. this function will protect the current editing state. You can also click revert to origin button to back to restore to the state before editing. 4.3 Frame Editing Toolbar 4.4 Save and export editing work The modifications will be automatically saved when you close your motion capture file. To save your edits while keeping the original file at the same time, or to save multiple versions of editing work for a single motion capture file, use the save as button. Click the save as button, then you will be able to input a new name for the file that you want to save, choose save then the file you are currently editing will be the new file with the name that you just renamed, now the original file will remain the same as it was opened. 4.5 Body Dimension You can still adjust the body dimension of the model in the editing process. If you want to create a custom body size based on the original template, first select the body size template you want to use. The original body size name will automatically add behind, then you can entering the appropriate body size, click save to project to save. The original bone size will not be covered. If you do not save to project, this modification is temporary. 5. Project Interface 5.1 Motion File Manage motion capture files in this project. You can Rename and Delete your files directly. You can batch export or import captured data. Create new folders to organize large amount of capture files in this project to optimize file management. word walk in the title. If you have a lot of capture files in one project, you will be able to tap key words in the filter to find your file. For example, I tapped push in the filter to find the three files with the 5.2 Body Dimension Manage body dimension profiles that will be used in the working project. You can modify the skeleton length directly in this page. The body dimension file is a simple xml file which includes the body dimension name and length for each body segment. You can Add and Delete a Body Dimension file. You can Import and Export a Body Dimension file. Body Dimension file is an *. xml file. You can copy and paste the *. xml body dimension file to anywhere. 6. Menu 6.1 Overview New Project: Create a new project. Open Project: Open an existing project. Close Project: Close the project which is opened now. Recent Project: A shortcut to find the lasted projects that you opened before. Magnetic Calibration: Calibrate your sensors to resist magnetic interference. Steady calibration: Calibrate the gyroscope of the sensor. Frequency Setting: PN3 support 3 different data transfer frequencies. If you are using more than one set PN3 at the same time, you need to make sure the these sets of PN3 are using different frequencies. Firmware Upgrade: Upgrade your transceiver,sensor and glove separately. Settings: Basic software settings. Working mode introduction: Introduce 6 working mode. License update: When you purchase the payment function, click here to input the activation code provided by Noitom company to activate your payment function. About: Including Axis Studio version,Calculation Engine Version and Usage License. When the current signal quality shows bad, you can use frequency setting function to get better 6.2 Frequency Setting signal. Click frequency switch function in the menu. Follow the instruction in the software 6.3 Firmware Upgrade interface. If the firmware is not the latest version, there will be prompted at the top of the software Click Upgrade, it will jump to the following interface, and if you click firmware upgrade in the menu bar, it will also jump to the interface. Click check and follow the instruction 6.4 Settings Advanced setting Control joint space on/off, only works in editing mode. Adv BVH Broadcasting BVH used in Autodesk software is a special BVH format. If you use Autodesk series software, use advanced BVH data broadcast in axis studio. Function Description Used for Advanced BVH-Capture Broadcast capture data Motion builderMaya Advanced BVH-Edit Broadcast Edit data Motion builderMaya Slide the upper right slider to enable the function. BVH Broadcasting Function Description BVH-Capture Broadcast capture data BVH-Edit Broadcast Edit data Slide the upper right slider to enable the function. Used for UnityUE UnityUE Device Language PN3 device type is unswitchable at the moment Select network PN3 frame rate is up to 60Hz only Axis Studio support English and Chinese language at the moment Shortcut KC information