| There is a growing demand for a real-time, inexpensive, highly accurate, mobile 3D laser sensing platform. To help fulfill this need, 2D laser range finders have been actuated to allow for the capturing of a 3D point cloud. The most common actuation methods involve the yawing, pitching, or rolling back and forth of the laser. Each of these actuation methods is limited by the constantly changing rates of rotation and of direction of travel. As a solution to these problems, a new, continuously rolling technique is studied as an alternate actuation method. A study was conducted from a hardware implementation of the continuous rolling scan actuation that shows the merits of this approach over common actuation approaches. |
