Title
Aircraft Seam Feature Extraction From 3d Raw Point Cloud Via Hierarchical Multi-Structure Fitting
Abstract
Advanced 3D scanners and depth cameras facilitate aircraft skin assembly, by acquiring high-precision point clouds. The measurement of skin seam quality directly affects the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. The extraction of the seam feature is an essential process in aircraft assembly. We propose a robust seam point extraction approach from raw point clouds of aircraft skins. Motivated by the non-uniform distribution of the acquired point cloud, we first devise a new tensor voting algorithm to exclude most of the points not belonging to seam structures. Our main contribution is the design of a hierarchical multi-structure fitting algorithm to classify the extracted points into non-seam points and seam points. We design the line constraint and the misjudgment strategy to cope with the seam feature extraction. In addition, we show that our approach can be applied into the gap-and-flush measurement (GAFM) of skin seams: it avoids the error of fitting two close lines into one line, which is a common and arduous case for the state of the arts. A number of experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of our approach on both synthetic and real-world raw data. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.cad.2020.102945
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Seam feature extraction, Raw point cloud, Tensor voting, Hierarchical structure, Model fitting
Journal
130
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0010-4485
1
0.43
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiajia Dai110.43
Mingqiang Wei212522.66
Qian Xie3169.82
Jun Wang437247.52