Movable Sensor 3D Reconstruction Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing three-dimensional reconstruction systems face challenges in accurately capturing detailed information of moving objects within a space without increasing costs, as additional sensors are needed to maintain detection range and resolution, leading to potential information gaps.

Innovation Solution

A three-dimensional reconstruction system that integrates data from fixed and movable sensors, where the movable sensor automatically adjusts its position and posture to maintain detection of the attention part, reducing the need for additional sensors and maintaining detailed information capture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If additional sensors are set along moving paths of the attention part to maintain detection range and resolution, then the completeness of three-dimensional information is improved, but the system cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of three-dimensional informationVSAvoidsystem cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the sensor movable instead of fixed. The sensor can automatically adjust its position and posture to track the attention part as it moves within the space. This dynamic capability allows a single sensor to maintain detection of moving targets without requiring multiple fixed sensors along potential movement paths, thereby reducing system cost while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The movable sensor serves multiple functions: it can detect any part of the space where the attention part moves, replacing what would otherwise require multiple dedicated sensors positioned at different locations. This multi-functionality allows one sensor to perform the work of several fixed sensors, reducing the overall system cost while maintaining complete three-dimensional information coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Device complexity

If a fixed sensor is used to capture the attention part, then the system cost is reduced, but the detection precision deteriorates when the attention part moves outside the detection range

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem costVSAvoiddetection precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The sensor is designed to be movable with automatic tracking capability. When the attention part moves within the space, the sensor automatically adjusts its position and orientation to keep the attention part within its detection range. This dynamic tracking ensures that detection precision is maintained at all times, equivalent to having multiple fixed sensors, while using only a single sensor to reduce system cost.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs feedback mechanisms where the sensor continuously monitors the position of the attention part and automatically adjusts its own position and posture in response. This closed-loop control ensures that the attention part remains within the optimal detection range, maintaining high measurement precision without requiring additional sensors or increasing system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3896388B1Three-dimensional reconstruction system, three-dimensional reconstruction method, and three-dimensional reconstruction program
Publication Date: 2023.07.26 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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AI summary

A three-dimensional reconstruction device (60) includes a three-dimensional information acquisition unit (63) that acquires first three-dimensional information from a first sensor (10) detecting a target object and acquires second three-dimensional information from a second sensor (50) provided to be movable and detecting an attention part (A1), a sensor information acquisition unit (62) that acquires first sensor information (I10) and second sensor information (I50), a position posture information acquisition unit (61) that acquires first position posture information (E10) and acquires second position posture information (E50), and a three-dimensional reconstruction unit (64) that reconstructs three-dimensional information representing the attention part from the first three-dimensional information (D10) and the second three-dimensional information (D50) by using the first sensor information, the second sensor information, the first position posture information and the second position posture information.