Measurement station planning of single laser tracker based on PSO

The laser tracker owns large measuring range, high precision and is easy to carry, which makes it widely used in large scare measurement. For a specific measurement task, however, it is hard to locate a laser tracker measurement station. In view of this situation, this paper advances a new planning method, which combines optimization engine with computer virtual laser tracker measurement (VLTM). A design case constructed by particle swarm optimization (PSO), SpatialAnalyzer(SA) virtual measurement and a high-precision marble plane is studied to illustrate and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method. The result shows that this method is able to find out the feasible solution which meets the uncertainty requirements in the given area automatically and exactly.