Flexible calibration method for 3D laser scanner system

• DOI: 10.1007/s12209-014-2167-0
• Publication Date: 2014-02-03T23:18:52Z
• Authors: Zhongdong Yang; Peng Wang; Xiaohui Li; Changku Sun
• Keywords: Laser Scanning

In this paper, a flexible high-precision calibration method suitable for industrial field was proposed. The complexity of the coordinate transformation was simplified by choosing the camera coordinate system as the unified reference coordinate system. A flexible planar calibration pattern was introduced to the calibration process, which can be arbitrarily placed and from which the known feature points can be extracted to construct other unknown feature points. With the known intrinsic parameters, the laser projector plane equation was fitted by the multi-noncollinear points, which were acquired through the principle of triangulation and the projective invariance of cross ratio. With this method, the strict alignment and multiple times of coordinate transformation can be avoided. Experimental results showed that the arithmetic mean of the root mean square (RMS) error of distance was 0.000 7 mm.