An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning

Mobile laser scanning (MLS) has been widely used in three-dimensional (3D) city modelling data collection, such as Google cars for Google Map/Earth. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has recently emerged and become prominent. 3D models of buildings are essential for BIM. Static laser scanning is...

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Main Authors: Lau, Lawrence, Quan, Yiming, Wan, Jingjing, Zhou, Ning, Wen, Conghua, Qian, Nie, Jing, Faming
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2018
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author Lau, Lawrence
Quan, Yiming
Wan, Jingjing
Zhou, Ning
Wen, Conghua
Qian, Nie
Jing, Faming
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Quan, Yiming
Wan, Jingjing
Zhou, Ning
Wen, Conghua
Qian, Nie
Jing, Faming
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description Mobile laser scanning (MLS) has been widely used in three-dimensional (3D) city modelling data collection, such as Google cars for Google Map/Earth. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has recently emerged and become prominent. 3D models of buildings are essential for BIM. Static laser scanning is usually used to generate 3D models for BIM, but this method is inefficient if a building is very large, or it has many turns and narrow corridors. This paper proposes using MLS for BIM 3D data collection. The positions and attitudes of the mobile laser scanner are important for the correct georeferencing of the 3D models. This paper proposes using three high-precision ultra-wide band (UWB) tags to determine the positions and attitudes of the mobile laser scanner. The accuracy of UWB-based MLS 3D models is assessed by comparing the coordinates of target points, as measured by static laser scanning and a total station survey.
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spelling nottingham-512932018-04-24T13:25:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51293/ An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning Lau, Lawrence Quan, Yiming Wan, Jingjing Zhou, Ning Wen, Conghua Qian, Nie Jing, Faming Mobile laser scanning (MLS) has been widely used in three-dimensional (3D) city modelling data collection, such as Google cars for Google Map/Earth. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has recently emerged and become prominent. 3D models of buildings are essential for BIM. Static laser scanning is usually used to generate 3D models for BIM, but this method is inefficient if a building is very large, or it has many turns and narrow corridors. This paper proposes using MLS for BIM 3D data collection. The positions and attitudes of the mobile laser scanner are important for the correct georeferencing of the 3D models. This paper proposes using three high-precision ultra-wide band (UWB) tags to determine the positions and attitudes of the mobile laser scanner. The accuracy of UWB-based MLS 3D models is assessed by comparing the coordinates of target points, as measured by static laser scanning and a total station survey. MDPI 2018-04-20 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51293/1/ijgi-07-00155.pdf Lau, Lawrence, Quan, Yiming, Wan, Jingjing, Zhou, Ning, Wen, Conghua, Qian, Nie and Jing, Faming (2018) An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7 (4). 155/1-155/14. ISSN 2220-9964 Ultra-wide band (UWB); Indoor positioning; Mobile laser scanning (MLS); Building Information Modelling (BIM); Point cloud; Attitude and position determination http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/4/155 doi:10.3390/ijgi7040155 doi:10.3390/ijgi7040155
spellingShingle Ultra-wide band (UWB); Indoor positioning; Mobile laser scanning (MLS); Building Information Modelling (BIM); Point cloud; Attitude and position determination
Lau, Lawrence
Quan, Yiming
Wan, Jingjing
Zhou, Ning
Wen, Conghua
Qian, Nie
Jing, Faming
An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title_full An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title_fullStr An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title_full_unstemmed An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title_short An autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
title_sort autonomous ultra-wide band-based attitude and position determination technique for indoor mobile laser scanning
topic Ultra-wide band (UWB); Indoor positioning; Mobile laser scanning (MLS); Building Information Modelling (BIM); Point cloud; Attitude and position determination
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51293/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51293/