Eye-safe Laser Line Striper for Outside Use - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Eye-safe Laser Line Striper for Outside Use

Christoph Mertz, John Kozar, James Ryan Miller, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV '02), Vol. 2, pp. 507 - 512, June, 2002

Abstract

Collision warning or autonomous driving in cluttered environments like urban areas require short-range high-resolution sensors. Range finders using laser triangulation fulfils these requirements but they face the additional challenge of operating in bright sunlight while remaining eye-safe. The laser line striper introduced in this paper achieves all these requirements without the need of expensive components. The sensor can be built with a variety of field-of-views.

BibTeX

@conference{Mertz-2002-8371,
author = {Christoph Mertz and John Kozar and James Ryan Miller and Chuck Thorpe},
title = {Eye-safe Laser Line Striper for Outside Use},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV '02)},
year = {2002},
month = {June},
volume = {2},
pages = {507 - 512},
keywords = {range finder, laser triangulation, eye safety, image sensor, sensing in sunlight, structured light, infrared laser},
}