Scanning a boiler room using a low price scanner

Abstract

As the reverse engineering helps to shorten the design-to-manufacture time. Point cloud from scanning saves time to get digital models from real objects. This paper introduced an implementation and test which constructs scanned point cloud data. An ordinary depth camera, Kinect for Xbox One is used to scan a boiler room to get point cloud which contains reasonable resolution. Then mathematical calculations and transformations are conducted based on SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) method to get a point cloud with reasonable resolution.