Faro Technologies, Inc.

William W Christine

Max K Kim

Robert E Bridges

Lawrence B Brown

Zhiguang Xu

Daniel J O'Neill

James Schloss

Xiaoyu Cai

Mikhail Atlas

A six-DOF probe includes a retroreflector, a collection of target lights, and a stylus having a probe tip. A laser tracker measures a distance, a first angle, and a second angle to the retroreflector and captures an image of the illuminated target lights. A processor determines the three-dimensional coordinates of the probe tip based at least in part on the measured distance, measured first angle, measured second angle and on a central portion of the captured image, the size of the central portion based at least in part on the measured distance.

Coordinate measuring device

A system that measures six degrees-of-freedom of a remote target, the system including a dimensional measuring device having a camera, the remote target including a retroreflector, at least three light markers, and a pitch-yaw sensor, the six degrees-of-freedom determined based at least in part on measured 3D coordinates of the retroreflector by the dimensional measuring device, on a captured image of the at least three light markers by the camera, and on readings of the pitch-yaw sensor.

System for measuring six degrees of freedom

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Glenmoore, PA, United States of America

William W Christine