Bürger, Thomas
A great amount of research is still needed to make the relatively new technique of close-range photogrammetry a suitable
tool for the reconstruction of these objects. Recent approaches that link photogrammetry with digital image processing
hold a great potential that has not yet been fully realized.
This paper explores the individual steps of a photogrammetric as-built-documentation and aims to optimize the procedure, Z
The documentation process is based on the assumption that universally accepted industrial standards of shape and position
of typical plant elements have been met. This knowledge has been applied to the orientation phase as well as to the
reconstruction phase of the documentation process. The optimization lead to a prototype close-range photogrammetric
system for as-built-documentation of process plants.
As a new documentation tool this digital photogrammetric system has been made compatible with existing CAE tools that
demand certain CAD-model structure and data management facilities.
It is the object of digital photogrammetry to find a way to deal with data acquisition and data interpretation in a highly
automated way. This paper presents tools that support actually an interactive reconstruction with standard data of process
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plants. Using these tools the design of an automatic as-built-documentation system should be around the corner. Initial
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1. Tools based on CAD-systems with highly optimized modelling capabilities. Those systems are still lacking a number | plane
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2. Digital photogrammetric systems permit the measurement of some (not yet all) features needed to model the plant Houg
elements. The data of those systems must be imported into CAD
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In general the reconstruction of process plants and its components always consists of two steps which should be ideally
combined into one interactive system:
Reconstruction — Feature-Measurement + Modelling.
2.1 Feature-Measurement
The components of process plants are typically pipes, valves, pumpes, elbows, flanges, etc.: Standardized components,
hardly to be measured by single, homologous imagepoints. The features to measure are points on lines, edges, points on | NS
circles or directly circles, cylindric and conic forms. The following methods measure those features: |
First of all the epipolar-line method is an important tool in as-build measurement of points on arbitrary edges.
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Straight lines (e.g. body edges, steel beam edges) are initially identified in space as the intersection of two planes (Fig. 2). this |
If more than two images and more than two points per image are used the position of the line in space is found by exam
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International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part B5. Amsterdam 2000.