An optimization solution of a laser plane in vision measurement with the distance object between global origin and calibration points

• Published in: Scientific reports 2015-07, Vol.5 (1), p.11928-11928, Article 11928
• Main Authors: Xu, Guan, Hao, Zhaobing, Li, Xiaotao, Su, Jian, Liu, Huanping, Sun, Lina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 639/624/1107/510; 639/766/930/2735; Calibration; Humanities and Social Sciences; Lasers; multidisciplinary; Objective function; Science
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/srep11928

Equation construction of a laser plane demonstrates a remarkable importance for vision measurement systems based on the structured light. Here we create a simple 1D target with a cone at the bottom and a checkered pattern on the top to calibrate the equation of the laser plane in the view field of a camera. A group of 2D coordinates of the intersection points are extracted from the images with the 1D target at different positions. The objective function is constructed to optimize the coefficients of the laser plane by minimizing the difference between the distance from the feature point to the the origin point and the length of the 1D target. The projective lines of the optimized laser plane on the 3D calibration board overlap the real intersection lines in the experimental images. Finally, the comparison work about the influences of the non-Gaussian noise and point number is investigated experimentally. The experiments show that the method of the distance optimal object from the feature point to the origin point provides an accurate and robust calibration for the laser plane in structured light measurement.