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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2002.8.1.037

Defects Length Measurement Using an Estimation Agorithm of the Camera Orientation and an Inclination Angle of a Laser Slit Beam  

Kim, Young-Hwang (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Yoon, Ji-Sup (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kang, E-Sok (Dept. of Mechanical Design Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.8, no.1, 2002 , pp. 37-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
A method of measuring the length of defects on the wall and restructuring the defect image is proposed based on the estimation algorithm of a camera orientation, which uses the declination angle of a laser slit beam. The estimation algorithm of the horizontally inclined angle of CCD camera adopts a 3-dimensional coordinate transformation of the image plane where both the laser beam and the original image of the defects exist. The estimation equation is obtained by using the information of the beam projected on the wall and the parameters of this equation are experimentally obtained. With this algorithm, the original image of the defect can be reconstructed as an image normal to the wall. From the result of a series of experiments, the measuring accuracy of the defect is measured within 0.5% error bound of real defect size under 30 degree of the horizontally inclined angle. The proposed algorithm provides the method of reconstructing the image taken at any arbitrary horizontally inclined angle as the image normal as the wall and thus, it enables the accurate measurement of the defect lengths by using a single camera and a laser slit beam.
Keywords
laser slit beam; CCD camera; wall defect; algorithm;
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