Accuracy Analysis Of The Structured Light Measurement System

Structured Light Measurement System (SLMS) is widely used in many fields such as industrial inspection, human body measurement, Protection of Cultural Relics and reverse engineering etc. In abroad, SLMS is well developped, but they are always expensive. In China, lots of research work has been made on it, but they are poor in accuracy and stability. So, this paper, which is based on a brief introduction of the structured light measurement technology, analyzes the impact of the period number of fringe pattern and gamma non-linear of Digital Projector, attempt to further improve the precision of pre-development measurement system.In our SLMS, phase-shifting method and multi-frequency heterodyne principle were imployed to obtain phrase gray map, then 3D data could be reconstructed base on the pre-calibrated parameters.According to the process of 3D reconstruction, we found that the increase of the period number of fringe pattern can reduce the error. So this paper analyzed the relationship between period number of fringe pattern and accuracy through theoretical research and experiments. Then we can conclude that the optimal period number is 110~120 and the SLMS gets the highest precision which is up to 0.037mm after filtering.In addition, the calculated phase value can also affect the accuracy of 3D reconstruction. According to research, gamma non-linear of projector is the main error source of the phase error. This paper analyzes 3D date by using different gamma values and different the period numbers of fringe pattern, then found that the period number of fringe pattern can inhibit the effect of the gamma non-linear of projector and improved the accuracy of the phase calculation.Finally, a series of measurement experiment, such as analyses of the accuracy in different distance and fitting diameter and distance of the standard ball, shows that the accuracy of system is stable and repeatability and the absolute measurement accuracy is 0.05mm.