A unified approach for least-squares surface fitting

作者：Zhu, LM^*; Ding, H

来源：Science in China - Series G: Physics Mechanics and Astronomy , 2004, 47: 72-78.

DOI：10.1360/03yb0233

• surface fitting
• least-squares
• rigid body motion
• deformation
• distance function
• optimization

This paper presents a novel approach for least-squares fitting of complex surface to measured 3D coordinate points by adjusting its location and/or shape. For a point expressed in the machine reference frame and a deformable smooth surface represented in its own model frame, a signed point-to-surface distance function is defined, and its increment with respect to the differential motion and differential deformation of the surface is derived. On this basis, localization, surface reconstruction and geometric variation characterization are formulated as a unified nonlinear least-squares problem defined on the product space SE(3) x R-m. By using Levenberg-Marquardt method, a sequential approximation surface fitting algorithm is developed. It has the advantages of implementational simplicity, computational efficiency and robustness. Applications confirm the validity of the proposed approach.

• 出版日期2004-7
• 单位上海交通大学