A 3-D tube scanning technique based on axis and center alignment of multi-laser triangulation

  • Authors:
  • Seung-Hae Baek;Soon-Yong Park

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel 3D tube scanning technique based on a multi-laser triangulation. A multi-laser and camera module, which will be mounted in front of a mobile robot, captures a sequence of 360 degree shapes of the inner surface of a cylindrical tube. In each scan of the sequence, a circular shape, which is composed of four partial ellipses, is reconstructed from a multilaser triangulation technique. To reconstruct a complete shape of the tube, the center and axis of the circular shape in each scan are aligned to a common tube model. To overcome inherent alignment noises due to off-axis robot motion, sensor vibration, and etc., we derive and apply a 3D Euclidean transformation matrix in each scan. In experimental results, we show that the proposed technique reconstructs very accurate 3D shapes of a tube even though there is motion vibration.