Process and apparatus for determining the position of an object

Details Process and apparatus for determining the position of an object Process and apparatus for determining the position of an object

1990-07-02

1992-09-08

Buczinski, Stephen C.

Optics: measuring and testing

Angle measuring or angular axial alignment

With photodetection remote from measured angle

356 1, 356141, G01B 1126, G01C 300

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051462907

ABSTRACT:
A process and an apparatus determines the position of an object by triangtion. In order to determine the location of an object, two illumination light beams coming from different directions are aimed at a reflector attached to the object and the reflected beams are detected by a location-sensitive sensor. In order also to detect the rotation position of the object, the reflector is partially mirrored so that a part of the illumination light beams striking thereon pass through it. The laser beams passing through the retro-reflector are detected in a sensor plane, which is spaced at a distance from the center of the reflector.

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patent: 4721386 (1988-01-01), Collyer
patent: 4888490 (1989-12-01), Bass et al.

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