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Light pens for 3D vision coordinate measurement systems are increasingly widely used due to their advantages, such as their small size, convenience of being carried, and widespread applicability. The posture of the light pen is an important factor that affects accuracy. The pose domain of the pen needs to be given so that the measurement system has a suitable measurement range to obtain more qualified parameters. The advantage of the self-calibration method is that the entire self-calibration process can be completed at the measurement site with no auxiliary equipment. After the system camera calibration was completed, we took several pictures of the same measurement point with different poses to obtain the conversion matrix of the picture and subsequently used spherical fitting, the generalized inverse method of least squares, and the principle of position invariance in the pose domain range. The combined stylus tip center self-calibration method calculates the actual position of the light pen probe. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the method; the measurement accuracy of the system can satisfy basic industrial measurement requirements. Full article

The light-pen coordinate measuring machine (LPCMM for short) is portable and flexible to measure features including invisible ones in-situ. Since different styluses are needed to measure different features and even during the process of measuring a single workpiece with complicated configurations, to improve the system measurement accuracy it is beneficial to calibrate the stylus tip center position after it is mounted to the light-pen before measurement in an industrial field. A novel and simple method aiming at self-calibrating the position of the tip center based on invariable distances is presented. The distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that the center position of the tip can be calibrated by using a kinematic seat with an inverted cone hole without any external reference and auxiliary devices. Calibration is based on that the distance between the tip center and that of any LED is invariable when the light-pen is swung smoothly with its spherical tip firmly touching the fixed cone seat. To ensure the repeatability of the algorithm some error constraint parameters are given. Based on invariable distances, the tip center position in the light-pen coordinate system can be obtained. Experiment results show that the self-calibration method has the advantage of good repeatability, with standard deviations 0.027, 0.023 and 0.014 mm in U, V and W directions, respectively. Experimental results of measuring a circle and a gauge block indirectly demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed self-calibration method. Full article