High-speed scanning chromatic confocal sensor for 3-D imaging with modeling-free learning control.

Abstract

This paper presents a scanning system that integrates a chromatic confocal displacement sensor for topography measurement of a surface. To take an advantage of its compactness and reliability, an off-the-shelf chromatic confocal displacement sensor is integrated. Instead of moving the sensor, a galvanometer scanner reflects the optical point to increase the scan speed, and fast and accurate scanning motion is realized by learning without a model. The resulting images are corrected based on a geometric model to compensate for image distortion.