Low-cost 3D rangefinder system

Bor-Tow Chen; Wen-Shiou Lou; Chia-Chen Chen; Hsien-Chang Lin

doi:10.1117/12.311075

18 June 1998 Low-cost 3D rangefinder system

Bor-Tow Chen, Wen-Shiou Lou, Chia-Chen Chen, Hsien-Chang Lin

Proceedings Volume 3422, Input/Output and Imaging Technologies; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.311075
Event: Asia Pacific Symposium on Optoelectronics '98, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract

Nowadays, 3D data are popularly performed in computer, and 3D browsers manipulate 3D model in the virtual world. Yet, till now, 3D digitizer is still a high-cost product and not a familiar equipment. In order to meet the requirement of 3D fancy world, in this paper, the concept of a low-cost 3D digitizer system is proposed to catch 3D range data from objects. The specified optical design of the 3D extraction is effective to depress the size, and the processing software of the system is compatible with PC to promote its portable capability. Both features contribute a low-cost system in PC environment in contrast to a large system bundled in an expensive workstation platform. In the structure of 3D extraction, laser beam and CCD camera are adopted to construct a 3D sensor. Instead of 2 CCD cameras for capturing laser lines twice before, a 2-in-1 system is proposed to merge 2 images in one CCD which still retains the information of two fields of views to inhibit occlusion problems. Besides, optical paths of two camera views are reflected by mirror in order that the volume of the system can be minified with one rotary axis only. It makes a portable system be more possible to work. Combined with the processing software executable in PC windows system, the proposed system not only saves hardware cost but also processing time of software. The system performance achieves 0.05 mm accuracy. It shows that a low- cost system is more possible to be high-performance.

Citation Download Citation

Bor-Tow Chen, Wen-Shiou Lou, Chia-Chen Chen, and Hsien-Chang Lin "Low-cost 3D rangefinder system", Proc. SPIE 3422, Input/Output and Imaging Technologies, (18 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.311075

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available