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The fast angular deflection (“line scan”) of the laser beam (2) is realized by a rotating polygon (3) with a number of
reflective surfaces. It rotates continuously at adjustable speed to provide an undirectional scan within an angle of 80°.
The slow scan (“frame scan”) is provided by rotating the complete optical head (4) up to 340°.
The gained information of range, signal amplitude and angle is provided by an 8 bit parallel data output which can be
connected directly to the ECP compatible LPT printer port (5) of a PC (6). This PC has to be equipped with specific
software (7) running under WIN95 or WINNT for data acquisition, real time display and post-processin g. The displayed
3D range images can be zoomed and copied to the clipboard, while for further processing, the scanner data are logged
to disk.
In figure 3 the dimensional drawings are shown. In figure 4 the inner instrument reference system is shown.
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The data provided by LMS-Z210 include ran ge, bearing angle, inclination angle and intensity information for each laser
measurement. Measurement data are organized in the data file sequentially, line by line starting in the upper left corner
of the image. Each measurement is represented by 8 bytes, 2 byte range, 2 byte bearing angle, 2 byte inclination angle
and 2 byte intensity including housekeeping data. The precision units used are 8 mm for range, 0.01 gon for the angles,
and 1 for the intensity data. The 3D image data are complemented by an header which states the number of bytes of the
raw data (4 bytes integer), the number of lines of 3D data (2 bytes), and the number of measurements per line (2 bytes).
In figure 5 an example of the image data is shown.
In the following tables, technical data for LMS-Z210 laser-scanner are shown.
Rangefinder performance
Measurement range 350 m, reflectivity >=80%
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Minimum range 2m ines 2
Measurement accuracy £.5 cm, 6<=20 ppm line $2 e
Measurement resolution 2.5 cm
Measurement rate 20000 Hz ined
Laser wavelength 0.9 um line #4
Beam divergence approx. 3 mrad
Eye safety Class 1
Table 1 — Rangefinder performances
Figure 5 — Range image
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