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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 201080003456', 'art 5', 'Application No. 2006800540959', 'Application No. 201080003463', 'Application No. 201080003467', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 07785873', 'Application No. 201080003466', 'Application No. 2012', 'Application No. 2012501176', 'Application No. 2012']

Method for optically scanning and measuring an object - Patent # 8625106 - PatentGenius
Method for optically scanning and measuring an object
8625106 Method for optically scanning and measuring an object
Inventor: Ossig, et al.
Date Issued: January 7, 2014
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Tu
U.S. Class: 356/601
International Class: G01B 11/24
Foreign Patent Documents: 508635; 2005200937; 1735789; 1838102; 2216765; 3227980; 3340317; 4027990; 4222642; 4340756; 4303804; 4445464; 19601875; 19607345; 19811550; 19850118; 19928958; 20208077; 10137241; 10232028; 10336458; 10244643; 20320216; 10304188; 10361870; 102004015111; 102004028090; 202006005643; 102005056265; 102006053611; 102006024534; 102007037162; 102008014274; 102009035336; 102010032725; 0667549; 0727642; 0838696; 0949524; 1056987; 1310764; 1342989; 1347267; 1528410; 2336493; 2388661; 2447258; H0357911; H0572477; 07128051; H07229963; 0815413; 0821714; H08129145; H08136849; H08262140; 1123993; 2000121724; 2000339468; 2003050128; 2003156330; 2003156562; 2003202215; 2004109106; 2004348575; 2005055226; 2005069700; 2005215917; 2006038683; 2008076303; 2008082707; 2008096123; 2009063339; 2009541758; 89/05512; 97/11399; 0020880; 0063645; 0063681; 02084327; 2005008271; 2005059473; 2006000552; 2006053837; 2007012198; 2007051972; 2007087198; 2007118478; 2008019856; 2008048424; 2008068791; 2009053085; 2009095384; 2009123278; 2010108644; 2011021103; 2012013525
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Abstract: In a method for optically scanning and measuring an object by a laser scanner by a procedure in which a emission light beam modulated with a target frequency is emitted by means of a light emitter, a reception light beam reflected or otherwise scattered in some way from an object in the surroundings of the laser scanner is received, with a measuring clock, as a multiplicity of samples by means of a light receiver and in each case at least the distance from the object is determined from the phase angles of the multiplicity of samples for a plurality of measuring points by means of a control and evaluation device, for determining the distances, a phase shift caused by a distance difference of temporal adjacent samples is corrected in order to correct the distances.
1. A method for optically scanning and measuring an object by a laser scanner, comprising the steps of: modulating an emission light beam with a target frequency; emitting the emission light beam; receiving a reception light beam reflected or otherwise scattered from the object in surroundings of the laser scanner, with a measuring clock, as a multiplicity of samples by a light receiver; determining in each caseat least a distance from the laser scanner to the object from phase angles of the multiplicity of samples for a plurality of measuring points by a control and evaluation device; and correcting a phase shift caused by a distance difference of temporaladjacent samples to correct the determined distances.
2. The method of claim 1, the step of correcting a phase shift further comprising determining a virtual speed of the object for correcting the phase shift.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the speed is determined from the distance difference existing between the distances of two temporally adjacent samples and the measuring clock.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein an approximated phase shift is determined from the virtual speed.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein corrected distances of the samples are determined from the approximated phase shift.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the correction of the phase shift is effected iteratively.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiplicity of samples with corrected distances are combined with data reduction to form the plurality of measuring points.
The invention relates to a method for optically scanning and measuring an object.
By means of a laser scanner such as is known from U.S. Pat. No. 7,430,068 for example, the surroundings of the laser scanner can be optically scanned and measured. One known method for this, called "zero cross", determines the zero crossingsof modulation of the emission light beam and of the reception light beam. The temporal difference corresponds to the distance. Only a small number of locations are thus evaluated, namely the zero crossings.
Embodiments of the present invention are based on the object of improving a method of the type mentioned hereinabove.
The method according to embodiments of the present invention makes it possible firstly to carry out the scanning without correction and then to correct the samples by the correction of the phase shift. The phase shift, which can be regarded asa distortion of the time or frequency domain, fluctuates over the phase angle corresponding to the distance. A virtual speed can be determined for the correction of the phase shift, the virtual speed supplying the approximated phase shift. An iterativedetermination of the virtual speed may be carried out. Instead of individual locations, the time signal can be utilized in its entirety. The phase shift can be substantially corrected in practice. The correction is effected on line before the samplesare combined, with data reduction, to form the measuring points.
The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a laser scanner with an object located in the surroundings of the laser scanner;
FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of the time signal;
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of the spectrum with frequency shift (cross-hatched);
FIG. 4 shows the phase shift dependent on the phase angle before the correction (dashed line) and afterwards (solid line); and
FIG. 5 is a side view, partially cut-away, of the laser scanner of FIG. 1.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 5, a laser scanner 10 is provided as a device for optically scanning and measuring the surroundings of the laser scanner 10. The laser scanner 10 has a measuring head 12 and a base 14. The measuring head 12 is mountedon the base 14 as a unit that can be rotated about a vertical axis. The measuring head 12 has a mirror 16 that can be rotated about a horizontal axis. The point of intersection between the two axes of rotation is designated as the center C.sub.10 ofthe laser scanner 10.
The measuring head 12 furthermore has a light emitter 17 for emitting an emission light beam 18. The emission light beam 18 may be a laser beam in the visible range of wavelength of approximately 300 to 1000 nm, for example 790 nm, but otherelectromagnetic waves having, for example, a greater wavelength can also be used, in principle. The emission light beam 18 is amplitude-modulated with, for example, a sinusoidal or rectangular, modulation signal. The emission light beam 18 is passedfrom the light emitter 17 onto the mirror 16, where it is deflected and emitted into the surroundings. A reception light beam 20 that is reflected or otherwise scattered in some way from an object O in the surroundings is captured again by the mirror16, deflected and passed onto a light receiver 21. The direction of the emission light beam 18 and of the reception light beam 20 results from the angular positions of the mirror 16 and of the measuring head 12, which depend on the positions of theirrespective rotary drives, which are in turn detected by respective encoders. A control and evaluation device 22 has a data link connection to the light emitter 17 and the light receiver 21 in the measuring head 12, parts thereof also being arrangedoutside the measuring head 12, for example as a computer connected to the base 14. The control and evaluation device 22 is designed to determine, for a multiplicity of measuring points X, the distance d of the laser scanner 10 from the (illuminatedpoint on the) object O from the propagation time of the emission light beam 18 and of the reception light beam 20. For this purpose, the phase shift between the two light beams 18, 20 is determined and evaluated.
By means of the relatively rapid rotation of the mirror 16, scanning is effected along a circular line. By means of the relatively slow rotation of the measuring head 12 relative to the base 14, the entire space is gradually scanned with thecircular lines. The totality of the measuring points X of such a measurement shall be designated as a scan. The center C.sub.10 of the laser scanner 10 defines for such a scan the stationary reference system of the laser scanner 10, in which the base14 is stationary. Further details of the laser scanner 10, in particular of the construction of the measuring head 12, are described for example in U.S. Pat. No. 7,430,068 and DE 20 2006 005 643, the contents of which are incorporated by reference.
On account of the propagation time between laser scanner 10 and the object O and back, a shifted phase angle .PHI. results between emission light beam 18 and reception light beam 20, the phase angle .PHI. being determined from the time signal(i.e., the signal of the light receiver 21 over time t). In digitally resolved manner, the time signal comprises individual samples, of which in each case approximately 2000 are associated with a measuring period and are later integrated, with datareduction, to form a measuring point X, for example by moment formation or other types of integration. The time intervals which are assigned to the individual samples and which together produce the measuring period define the measuring clock f.sub.M,that is, the frequency at which the samples are generated. The measuring clock f.sub.M is synchronized with a target frequency .omega..sub.0, which corresponds to the modulation frequency of the emission light beam 18, in such a way that measurement iseffected periodically at the same phase angles .PHI., for example 25 times per 2.pi..
If the object O has a surface with respect to the surface normal of which the emission light beam 18 runs virtually perpendicularly, that is an angle of incidence .alpha.=90.degree. is present, a specific measuring error becomes apparent. Adistance difference .DELTA.d exists between spatially (and temporally) adjacent samples. The distance difference .DELTA.d corresponds to an "additional" phase shift .DELTA..PHI. when considering the differences in the phase angles .PHI. of theemission light beam 18 and of the reception light beam 20. The phase shift .DELTA..PHI. can become relatively large depending on the phase angle .PHI. (larger than the measuring accuracy). From the point of view of the laser scanner 10, the distancedifference .DELTA.d of two temporally adjacent samples acts like a virtual movement of the object O. The measuring clock f.sub.M no longer matches the target frequency .omega..sub.0 (that is to say that measurement is no longer carried out at the samephase angle), rather the reception light beam 20 appears to have a modulation frequency that is shifted by a frequency shift .DELTA..omega. relative to the target frequency .omega..sub.0. The frequency shift .DELTA..omega. corresponds to the frequencyshift in the case of the Doppler effect in the case of actually moving objects. This shift dependent on the phase angle .PHI. can also be interpreted as a distortion of the time domain or frequency domain.
In order to correct this measuring error, a virtual speed v is determined for this virtual movement of the object O. This virtual speed v is proportional to the frequency shift .DELTA..omega.. The phase angles .PHI. and thus the distances dare corrected by means of the virtual speed v with the result that the phase shift .DELTA..PHI. is eliminated from the samples and thus from the measuring points X. The determination of the virtual speed v and the correction of the phase shift.DELTA..PHI. are effected iteratively. The procedure begins with the zeroth approximation v=.DELTA.d.f.sub.M. As the distances d between every sampled point on the object O and the center C.sub.10 may be calculated from the phase angles .PHI.,.DELTA.d is the difference of the distances d of the two temporally adjacent samples, which are also spatially adjacent due to the rotation of the mirror 16. This zeroth approximation of the virtual speed v is used to determine an approximated phaseshift .DELTA..PHI. in each case for the samples. By means of the phase shift .DELTA..PHI., the distances d respectively assigned to the samples are corrected for each sample. Then, a corrected distance difference .DELTA.d between two spatially andtemporally adjacent samples is determined from the corrected distances d. From the corrected distance differences .DELTA.d, the virtual speed v is determined to the next approximation. The method converges, when the relative corrections, e.g., thecorrections of the distance differences .DELTA.d compared to the absolute distance differences .DELTA.d, go below a predefined limit.
If the method converges and the virtual speed v is known, the phase shift .DELTA..PHI. (that is, the distortion of the time domain or frequency domain) is theoretically completely, in practice substantially, corrected. FIG. 4 shows the phaseshift .DELTA..PHI. before the correction (dashed line) and afterwards (solid line). The correction of the phase shift .DELTA..PHI. leads to a correction of the time signal and ultimately, after the integration of the samples, to a correction of themeasuring points X. The time signal can be used in its entirety, that is, not only with respect to single phase angles .PHI. (for example the zero crossings), wherein full signal quality is available.
The correction of the phase shift .DELTA..PHI. and thus the correction of the distances d is effected in a correction device, which may be integrated into the control and evaluation device 22.
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