A new large-scale posture measurement system based on a six-laser tracer multilateral method

To realize high-accuracy posture measurement in large scale, a posture measurement system is proposed in this study based on a six-laser multilateral method, mainly composed of six laser tracers and three reflectors—a different number of laser tracers tracks each mirror. But in this state, the system is positive definite, and it cannot achieve the system parameters by self-calibration. To solve this problem, a stepwise calibration method to obtain the system parameters by three-step calibration is presented. Simulations and experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the posture errors are distributed over [−13.6'', 6.6''] when the measurement range is [5 m, 7 m], which shows that the new measurement system has a high posture measurement accuracy in large scale.

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