Laser rangefinder for steel pipes characterization

Author

Cavedo, Federico ; Pesatori, Alessandro ; Norgia, Michele ; di Milano, Politecnico ; Solari, Gabriel E.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron., Inf. e Bioingegneria, Milan, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1387

Lastpage

1390

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to develop an optical distance sensor of reduced size and very-low power consumption to be used on a measuring system for characterizing steel pipes. The work led to the construction of a working prototype configured as an active triangulation rangefinder with a gamut of 10 cm starting at 5 cm. The experimental measurements have confirmed the feasibility of this new lightweight and extremely small size rangefinder with a resolution of about 10 μm on a range of measurement of 10 cm, providing up to 10000 measurements per second.

Keywords

distance measurement; optical sensors; pipes; power consumption; active triangulation rangefinder; laser rangefinder; optical distance sensor; power consumption; steel pipes characterization; Instruments; Lenses; Measurement by laser beam; Optical variables measurement; Semiconductor device measurement; Size measurement; Voltage measurement; Industrial control; Measurement by laser beam; Optical sensors; Position measurement; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Pisa

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2015.7151477

Filename

7151477