Prototype implementation of dual laser 3D scanner system using cloud to cloud merging method

This research designed a three-dimensional (3D) laser scanner using dual laser to scan object placed in a rotating table with maximum dimension is 15 × 15 × 15 cm. Two lasers and one camera are placed and positioned with certain calculation so it can meet the requirements for triangulation technique. From the scanning process, obtained two point clouds which needed to be merged. We propose a new technique to obtain a good point clouds merger. The merging process of the point clouds is done by find the center of z axis as its overlap point then rotate one of the point clouds with a corresponding direction. Merged point clouds obtained by re-plotting the rotated point clouds to the other point clouds.