3D modeling system using rotary vision sensor

We have developed an experimental system for 3-D sensing using rotary vision sensor. Visual inspection systems are widely used for assembled PCB inspection. In many cases, these systems employ sophisticated optical systems, and to calibrate or adjust the system requires much effort of specialists. Also, the systems are very much specialized to the specified task and cannot be used for wide variety of applications. Recently, CCD cameras can be easily used for many applications and we proposed a experimental system for 3-D sensing using relative stereo method, last year. Using the idea, this time, we developed a new 3-D sensing system using the rotary vision sensor and motion picture analysis method. It can extract 3-D shape of objects with high reliability. In this paper, we introduce the idea of this system with experimental results.