Verification of Scanned Engineering Parts with CAD Models Based on Discrete Curvature Estimation

Abstract

The manufacturing industry constantly needs to verify machined objects against their original CAD models. Given a prototype design, an engineer should be able to determine whether the part was manufactured well; that is, whether it fits the CAD model exactly. However, derivative computations are unstable for real data, and the estimated curvature is thus very sensitive to noise. Moreover, in many cases, spatial fitting of corresponding points is not sufficient. The current work utilizes the curvature properties to inspect manufactured parts that have been reconstructed from noisy and densely sampled data.