Optimized data processing for an optical 3D sensor based on flying triangulation

We present data processing methods for an optical 3D sensor based on the measurement principle “Flying Triangulation”. The principle enables a motion-robust acquisition of the 3D shape of even complex objects: A hand-held sensor is freely guided around the object while real-time feedback of the measurement progress is delivered during the captioning. Although of high precision, the resulting 3D data usually may exhibit some weaknesses: e.g. outliers might be present and the data size might be too large. We describe the measurement principle and the data processing and conclude with measurement results