The application discloses a curved surface workpiece defect measurement method based on
point cloud registration, comprising the following steps: obtaining a three-dimensional
point cloud model and a theoretical
point cloud model of a workpiece, and determining corresponding matching point pairs; based on the matching point pairs, a point cloud registration method based on
graph optimization is used to rigidly register the two point cloud models, specifically comprising the following steps: based on the matching point pairs, a
graph optimization model is constructed, the model regards each matching
point pair as an edge in a graph structure, and defines a registration error as a multi-
modal residual error including a geometric residual error, a normal vector residual error and a curvature residual error; an optimization objective function is constructed in combination with the multi-
modal residual error and a robust kernel function, and a
global optimal rigid transformation matrix is solved based on a
graph optimization algorithm to realize point cloud registration; based on the point cloud registration result, a multi-
modal residual error norm of each point is calculated to generate a residual
heat map; and a defect area is identified through the residual
heat map. The application realizes defect detection of a curved surface workpiece through multi-modal residual error registration of graph optimization.