A HIGHLY-ACCURATE PROFILOMETER HAVING WIDE FOV

Wide field of view 3-D scanners are strategic in many contexts, above all, infrastructure inspection and vehicle/robot automatic motion. In this paper we present a patented sensor able to recover three-dimensional data and perform an omnidirectional highly accurate environmental reconstruction, mainly focusing on a design strategy for setting up the geometric parameters. Performance of a prototypal implementation are reported, and 3-D reconstructions are shown.