Noncontact Visual Three-Dimensional Ranging Devices - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Noncontact Visual Three-Dimensional Ranging Devices

Takeo Kanade and H. Asada
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Three-Dimensional Machine Perception, Vol. 283, pp. 48 - 52, October, 1981

Abstract

This paper describes design and development of two types of 3-D ranging devices for robotic applications: both are noncontact, optical devices based on active illumination and triangulation. One is a laser scanning ranging device for medium-range (50cm), and the other is a proximity range sensor for short range (5 cm). The features of the devices are that both use analog area position sensor chips and that they provide simple, fast, accurate, non-contact visual sensing of range information.

BibTeX

@conference{Kanade-1981-15595,
author = {Takeo Kanade and H. Asada},
title = {Noncontact Visual Three-Dimensional Ranging Devices},
booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE Three-Dimensional Machine Perception},
year = {1981},
month = {October},
volume = {283},
pages = {48 - 52},
}