Capabilities of the brand new method of object orientation determination are considered in this work. An object orientation is determined via determination of coordinates of special points bound to an object. Determination of points' coordinates becomes possible by virtue of an information field formed with aid of laser rays scanning in a space by a certain way. Object orientation characteristics are calculated based on measured coordinates of these points. Precision parameters of this method depend on characteristics of formed information field, quantity, and mutual placement of an object bench-mark points. High information field scanning frequency allows us to make a lot of measurements of points' coordinates that allow us to reduce errors influence. Using this method allows us to simplify and cheapen the measuring facilities essentially because it does not have to use expensive high-precision elements for an object orientation determination. Besides, the described method may have a very extensive purpose where it needs to determine orientation of an object without mechanical interaction.

Date Published: 1 December 1995
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 2646, Digital Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing '95, (1 December 1995); doi: 10.1117/12.227879

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2646:
Digital Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing '95
Eugeny A. Fedosov, Editor(s)