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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Kyungnam Kim, Oak Park, CA (US);
Heiko Hoffmann, Simi Valley, CA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to generate a model of a surface of an object includes a data set pre-aligner configured to receive multiple sets of surface data that correspond to respective portions of a surface of an object and that include three-dimensional (3D) points. The data set pre-aligner is also configured to perform a pre-alignment of overlapping sets to generate pre-aligned sets, including performing a rotation operation on a second set of the surface data, relative to a first set of the surface data that overlaps the second set, to apply a rotation amount that is selected from among multiple discrete rotation amounts and based on a similarity metric. The apparatus includes a data set aligner configured to perform an iterative alignment of the pre-aligned sets to generate aligned sets. The apparatus also includes a 3D model generator configured to combine the aligned sets to generate a 3D model of the object.