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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

An Open-Source, Low-Cost Solution for 3D Scanning.

Andrei Mateescu, Ioana Livia Stefan, Silviu Raileanu, Ioan Stefan Sacala

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Andrei MateescuAutomatic Control and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0009-0007-3725-0811
Ioana Livia StefanAutomatic Control and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0009-0006-2377-6065
Silviu RaileanuAutomatics and Industrial Informatics Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.
Ioan Stefan SacalaAutomatic Control and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-5787-7848

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Abstract

With new applications continuously emerging in the fields of manufacturing, quality control and inspection, the need to develop three-dimensional (3D) scanning solutions suitable for industrial environments increases. 3D scanning is the process of analyzing one or more objects in order to convert and store the object's features in a digital format. Due to the increased costs of industrial 3D scanning solutions, this paper proposes an open-source, low-cost architecture for obtaining a 3D model that can be used in manufacturing, which involves a linear laser beam that is swept across the object via a rotating mirror, and a camera that grabs images, to further be used to extract the dimensions of the object through a technique inspired by laser triangulation. The 3D models for several objects are obtained, analyzed and compared to the dimensions of their respective real-world counterparts. For the tested objects, the proposed system yields a maximum mean height error of 2.56 mm, a maximum mean length error of 1.48 mm and a maximum mean width error of 1.30 mm on the raw point cloud and a scanning time of ∼4 s per laser line. Finally, a few observations and ways to improve the proposed solution are mentioned.

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3D scannercomputer visionlinear laseropen-source

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PMID41516762
PMCPMC12788225

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