Device for creating construction gauge measurement diagram, device for creating construction gauge measurement diagram data, and method for creating construction gauge measurement diagram

• US 10,093,332 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kamei, Katsuyuki, Watanabe, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V
• Application Number:
  US15/309,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20170144682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,567 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 23/04 for monitoring the mechanical state of the route
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 23/041 Obstacle detection
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 25/025 Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/002 for measuring two or more coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 21/16 for measuring distance of clearance between spaced objects
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 21/20 for measuring contours or curvatures, e.g. determining profile
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10004 Still image; Photographic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30108 Industrial image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/04 Architectural design, interior design
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2215/16 Using real world measurements to influence rendering
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0006 using a design-rule based approach

Abstract

Distance measurement means measures a distance from a measurement point to a construction gauge in a route of a track. A range identification unit identifies whether or not a measurement point falls within a predetermined range from the construction gauge based on the measured distance. A ground feature identification unit identifies whether or not the measurement point is a measurement point of a feature on a ground. Drawing means draws in a plan view a measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground by the ground feature identification unit among the measurement points, and draws in side views a measurement point identified as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground. The drawing means performs different drawing processes on a measurement point identified as falling within the predetermined range from the construction gauge among the measurement points and on a measurement point identified as not falling within the predetermined range from the construction gauge among the measurement points.

Claims

1. A device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram, the device comprising:

a memory configured to store a route of at least one track, a shape of a construction gauge defined by a plane perpendicular to the at least one track, and three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of measurement points obtained by a mobile mapping system, which includes at least a laser scanner, that acquires a three-dimensional shape of a surrounding target space as point cloud data; and

processing circuitry configured to

measure a distance from each of said measurement points to said construction gauge in said route of said track;

identify each of attributes of said measurement points, by;

identifying whether or not each of said measurement points falls within a predetermined range from said construction gauge based on the distance measured, and

identifying whether or not each of identified measurement points at least identified by said processing circuitry as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge is a measurement point of a feature on a ground among said measurement points, said feature on a ground facing on a base of said construction gauge; and

draw in a plan view a measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground by said processing circuitry among said measurement points by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the plan view, and to draw in at least one side view at least part of measurement points identified as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the at least one side view, said processing circuitry configured to perform different drawing processes on a measurement point identified as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points, and on a measurement point identified as not falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points.

2. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein said processing circuitry draws a measurement point identified as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points, and does not draw a measurement point identified as not falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points.

3. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein said processing circuitry draws, by using different symbols, a measurement point identified as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points, and a measurement point identified as not falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge by said processing circuitry among said measurement points.

4. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein

said processing circuitry is further configured to identify which of a left side and a right side of said track at least part of said measurement points are located, and

said processing circuitry draws a measurement point identified as a measurement point located on the left side by said processing circuitry among said measurement points in a left side view included in said at least one side view, and draws a measurement point identified as a measurement point located on the right side by said processing circuitry among said measurement points in a right side view included in said at least one side view.

5. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 4, wherein

said plan view drawn by said processing circuitry takes a mileage of said route of said track as a horizontal axis, and takes a direction leftwardly perpendicular to said route of said track as an upward direction of a vertical axis,

said left side view drawn by said processing circuitry takes a mileage of said route of said track as a horizontal axis, and takes a height direction as an upward direction of a vertical axis, and

said right side view drawn by said processing circuitry takes a mileage of said route of said track as a horizontal axis, and takes a height direction as a downward direction of a vertical axis.

6. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein said at least one track stored by said memory includes a route of a plurality of tracks running side by side.

7. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein

said processing circuitry is further configured to identify which of a left side and a right side of said track at least part of said measurement points are located, and

said processing circuitry draws, by using different symbols, a measurement point identified as a measurement point located on the left side by said processing circuitry among said measurement points, and a measurement point identified as a measurement point located on the right side by said processing circuitry among said measurement points.

8. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein

said processing circuitry is further configured to identify whether or not each of measurement points at least identified by said processing circuitry as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge is a feature of an upper portion among said measurement points, and

said processing circuitry draws in a top plan view a measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature of an upper portion by said processing circuitry among said measurement points.

9. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein

said memory stores a map of a region including a route of said at least one track, and

said processing circuitry draws a construction gauge measurement diagram on said map.

10. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein said processing circuitry identifies, among said measurement points, a measurement point where a nearest point to said construction gauge is on a base of said construction gauge as a measurement point of a feature on the ground.

11. The device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram according to claim 1, wherein said processing circuitry identifies, among said measurement points, a measurement point where a height from a surface on which a wheel of a vehicle passing said track rolls is a predetermined value or less as a measurement point of a feature on the ground.

12. A device for creating construction gauge measurement diagram data, the device comprising:

a memory configured to store a route of at least one track, a shape of a construction gauge defined by a plane perpendicular to the at least one track, and three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of measurement points obtained by a mobile mapping system, which includes at least a laser scanner, that acquires a three-dimensional shape of a surrounding target space as point cloud data; and

processing circuitry configured to

measure a distance from each of said measurement points to said construction gauge in said route of said track;

identify each of attributes of said measurement points, by;

identifying whether or not each of said measurement points falls within a predetermined range from said construction gauge based on the distance measured, and

identifying whether or not each of identified measurement points at least identified by said processing circuitry as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge is a measurement point of a feature on a ground among said measurement points, said feature on a ground facing on a base of said construction gauge; and

create plan view data including coordinate values for drawing in a plan view a measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground by said processing circuitry among said measurement points by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the plan view, and side view data including coordinate values for drawing in at least one side view at least part of measurement points identified as not the measurement point of a feature on the ground by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the at least one side view.

13. A method implemented by a device for creating a construction gauge measurement diagram based on a route of at least one track, a shape of a construction gauge defined by a plane perpendicular to the at least one track, and coordinates of a plurality of measurement points obtained by a mobile mapping system, which includes at least a laser scanner, that acquires a three-dimensional shape of a surrounding target space as point cloud data, the method comprising:

by processing circuitry of the device, a step of measuring a distance from each of said measurement points to said construction gauge in said route of said track;

a step of identifying each of attributes of said measurement points, said step of identifying the attributes including;

a step of identifying whether or not each of said measurement points falls within a predetermined range from said construction gauge based on said measured distance, and

a step of identifying whether or not each of measurement points at least identified by said range identification unit as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge is a measurement point of a feature on a ground among said measurement points, said feature on a ground facing on a base of said construction gauge; and

the method further comprising a step of drawing, in a plan view, a measurement point identified by said ground feature identification unit as a measurement point of a feature on the ground among said measurement points by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the plan view, and drawing, in at least one side view, at least part of measurement points identified by said ground feature identification unit as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate of the measurement point identified as not a measurement point of a feature on the ground onto the at least one side view,

wherein said processing circuitry performs different drawing processes on a measurement point identified by said processing circuitry as falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge among said measurement points, and on a measurement point identified by said processing circuitry as not falling within the predetermined range from said construction gauge among said measurement points.