A triangulation sensor for measuring the displacements and high-precision monitoring of the production performance

Using the method of laser triangulation as the base, a mobile high-precision sensor has been created for measuring displacements and monitoring of the geometric parameters of workpieces in production. Both the process of signal processing and the operation of the triangulation sensor were accelerated many times owing to the architecture of processes, which was based on a reduced set of commands using simple and effective instructions of the stm32f407vet6 microcontroller. The measurement procedure was carried out by searching for a laser spot, calculating the center of the spot using the center of mass method, converting the centroid into the metric and applying calibration tables. Sensor scan speed amounted to (3 – 5)∙103 s–1.