5. Developments and conclusions
After a long period when the trend was to improve acquisition speeds, the latest innovations are focused on increasing the quality of the images taken by these instruments.
Additional sensors have been integrated to automate the assembly of the various scans (see § 3.4 ). The latest generations have two on-board computers: one to manage the entire acquisition process, and a second to begin cloud assembly calculations. This means...
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