The feasibility of using a low-cost depth camera for 3D scanning in mass customization

Juho Pekka Virtanen; Kim Niklas Antin; Matti Kurkela; Hannu Hyyppä

doi:10.1515/eng-2019-0056

The feasibility of using a low-cost depth camera for 3D scanning in mass customization

Juho Pekka Virtanen^*
, Kim Niklas Antin
, Matti Kurkela
, Hannu Hyyppä

^*Corresponding author for this work

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute

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Abstract

By combining additive manufacturing with 3D measurement techniques, tailored production work-flows that include the digitizing of existing components, computer-aided design, and tool-free manufacturing of the customized parts can be envisioned, potentially reducing the costs of mass customization. The introduction of affordable depth cameras has greatly increased the consumer availability of 3D measuring. We present the application of an affordable depth camera for the 3D digitizing of existing components, the utilization of the produced data in the design process, and finally, the production of the designed component with additive manufacturing. The capabilities of the affordable depth camera system are evaluated by comparing it with photogrammetric 3D reconstruction, revealing issues in smaller geometric details and sharp edges.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	450-458
Number of pages	9
Journal	Open Engineering
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/eng-2019-0056
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This research project was supported by the Academy of Finland, the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research (CoE-LaSR) (No. 272195, 307362). The Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland is acknowledged for financial support for the project, “Competence-Based Growth Through Integrated Disruptive Technologies of 3D Digitalization, Robotics, Geospatial Information and Image Processing/Computing – Point Cloud Ecosystem (No. 293389, 314312),” and the Business Finland is acknowledged for financial support for the innovation project “VARPU” (7031/31/2016). The European Regional Development Fund is acknowledged for the support of the “Creve 2.0” project (S21338).

UN SDGs

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

3D scanning
additive manufacturing
mass customization
reverse engineering

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