A Point Cloud Registration Method for Substations Based on an Improved SAC-IA Algorithm

This paper proposes a point cloud registration method for substations based on an improved SAC-IA algorithm. This method optimizes the SAC-IA algorithm by filtering the randomly selected point pairs to ensure that the triangles formed by the selected points in the model and scene point clouds have certain similarities. Furthermore, the registration error judgment of the SAC-IA algorithm has been improved. In addition to using the Euclidean distance between the registered model and scene point clouds as the judgment standard, this method also considers the SHOT difference and average curvature difference. Successful registration is only considered when all three standards are satisfied. The experimental research shows that the time performance of this method is twice as high as that of the traditional SAC-IA algorithm on average, and the recognition accuracy is improved in the recognition results.