Waterfall Solutions : Publication Abstract

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Title

Building an integrated 3D picture

Abstract:

The last few years have seen an explosion in the roll-out of Uninhabited Vehicles (UVs) with adoption now prevalent over a wide range of military and civilian tasks spanning dirty, dangerous, deep and dull scenarios.

UVs are expected to relay sensory data (e.g. images) back to operators who in turn act on the information and issue new control commands. This model quickly degrades as the data deluge overwhelms operators and leads to increasing stress levels, human errors and a reduction in data dissemination.

With information from multiple sensors around a given scene, a depth mesh can be created for each sensor, and the various meshes registered together given the location and orientation of each sensor.

Once all meshes are aligned to a common coordinate set, a registered depth mesh can be constructues from all available sensor data. Finally all depth meshes can be integrated to create a final depth mesh representing the measured 3D scene.

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Authors:

C. R. Angell, Waterfall Solutions, UK;

Publication:

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Control & Automation Magazine Volume 18 Issue 6, January 2008