The bentwing 3D Aerial Mapping System

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bentwing is an airborne mapping system that builds 3D maps of environments using a laser scanner. The lightweight scanning payload includes a Hokuyo UTM-30LX-F laser scanner that is rotated using the downdraft from the quadcopter. Custom-designed wings convert the downdraft into rotational motion that spins the laser, extending its field of view from 2D to 3D. • bentwing was developed at CSIRO and uses the same sensors and data processing software as our handheld 3D mapping system, Zebedee: • Mobile Mapping Indoors and Outdoors w... • bentwing has been used to map a variety of environments including: interiors and exteriors of buildings, forests, cultural heritage sites, mines and quarries, and caves. This video shows a few examples including one of the first cave sections scanned at Jenolan Caves, a marble quarry in the Wombeyan Caves area, a cultural heritage site (Peel Island Lazaret), and an industrial work area. • Technical details and more example applications are available in a journal article: • Lukas Kaul, Robert Zlot, and Michael Bosse, Continuous-time Three-Dimensional Mapping for Micro Aerial Vehicles with a Passively Actuated Rotating Laser Scanner , Journal of Field Robotics, 33(1), January 2016. • Article available at: • http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rob.21614 • OR • http://db.tt/9gr2cCS4 (.pdf) • • _

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