Cross-section the laser beam of the structure for measuring the distance and orientation of the robot manipulator

For stand-alone measure the distance of the robot manipulator or a robot as a whole and its orientation with respect to a reference surface is proposed to use optical-electronic system - standing with a camera and a laser module based on diode laser optics, forming a cross-shaped structure of the cross-section of the radiation beam . Opto- electronic system is mounted on the manipulator. At this point of intersection lines formed on a structured surface of an article by a laser beam in a cross can be used to measure distances and angular coordinates lines - for measuring the relative orientation of the manipulator of the measuring system. Measuring distances on the cross point, in fact, little different from the distance measurements on the position of the laser spot on the surface of the product in laser triangulation distance meter, the metrological parameters are studied in some detail, but in this case the particular topology of the cross-section of the laser beam widen the range of measurable distances . Metrological potential orientation measurements using intersecting lines on the surface of the base has not been studied, and that was the basis for this study.