Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR

In order to expand the field of view and improve the resolution, a method of optical butting was proposed for two plane array sensors using beam splitter prism in this paper. The principle of optical butting, the optical design, calibration and focusing technology, and alignment method were presente...

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Autores principales: Shuo Zhang, Yong Bi, Lipeng Sun, Yongran Chen
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9af8dcbe7a4c4cce860ae30bfc2143c32021-11-19T00:05:24ZOptical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR2169-353610.1109/ACCESS.2021.3065042https://doaj.org/article/9af8dcbe7a4c4cce860ae30bfc2143c32021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9374413/https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536In order to expand the field of view and improve the resolution, a method of optical butting was proposed for two plane array sensors using beam splitter prism in this paper. The principle of optical butting, the optical design, calibration and focusing technology, and alignment method were presented and analyzed. In addition, the gray image stitch and point cloud data registration were also realized. To prove the concept of the optical butting method, we built a prototype system for experiment. The splicing of two <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$320\times240$ </tex-math></inline-formula> sensors of plane array laser imaging detection and ranging (PA-LiDAR) was implemented. After optical butting, the total effective pixel number was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$320\times480$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, the total effective area was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$6.4\times4.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm, and the field of view was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$22\,\,^{\circ }\times 15\,\,^{\circ }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Compared with the conventional laser radar system, the optical butting system can improve the field of view and resolution by a factor about <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. This method had the advantages of simple constitution, easy accomplishment, small space and high assembly precision which guaranteed the operating requirement of the PA-LIDAR sensor.Shuo ZhangYong BiLipeng SunYongran ChenIEEEarticleLaser radarradar imagingoptical sensorsoptical designoptical buttingElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971ENIEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 41168-41173 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Laser radar
radar imaging
optical sensors
optical design
optical butting
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
spellingShingle Laser radar
radar imaging
optical sensors
optical design
optical butting
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Shuo Zhang
Yong Bi
Lipeng Sun
Yongran Chen
Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
description In order to expand the field of view and improve the resolution, a method of optical butting was proposed for two plane array sensors using beam splitter prism in this paper. The principle of optical butting, the optical design, calibration and focusing technology, and alignment method were presented and analyzed. In addition, the gray image stitch and point cloud data registration were also realized. To prove the concept of the optical butting method, we built a prototype system for experiment. The splicing of two <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$320\times240$ </tex-math></inline-formula> sensors of plane array laser imaging detection and ranging (PA-LiDAR) was implemented. After optical butting, the total effective pixel number was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$320\times480$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, the total effective area was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$6.4\times4.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm, and the field of view was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$22\,\,^{\circ }\times 15\,\,^{\circ }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Compared with the conventional laser radar system, the optical butting system can improve the field of view and resolution by a factor about <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. This method had the advantages of simple constitution, easy accomplishment, small space and high assembly precision which guaranteed the operating requirement of the PA-LIDAR sensor.
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author Shuo Zhang
Yong Bi
Lipeng Sun
Yongran Chen
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Yong Bi
Lipeng Sun
Yongran Chen
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title Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
title_short Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
title_full Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
title_fullStr Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
title_full_unstemmed Optical Butting of Plane Array Sensors for PA-LiDAR
title_sort optical butting of plane array sensors for pa-lidar
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