Authors:
Peter Landstorfer
1
;
Gabriel Herl
2
and
Jochen Hiller
3
Affiliations:
1
Fraunhofer Application Center CTMT, Dieter-Görlitz-Platz 2, 94469 Deggendorf and Germany
;
2
Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Dieter-Görlitz-Platz 1, 94469 Deggendorf and Germany
;
3
Fraunhofer Application Center CTMT, Dieter-Görlitz-Platz 2, 94469 Deggendorf, Germany, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Dieter-Görlitz-Platz 1, 94469 Deggendorf and Germany
Keyword(s):
X-ray Computed Tomography, X-ray Simulation, Robotics, Robot-based Imaging, Scanning Trajectory.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Industrial Automation and Robotics
;
Industrial Engineering
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction
Abstract:
In this work the application of six-axis robots for robot-based industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging is investigated. In contrast to classical Cartesian manipulators with a turntable used in industrial cone-beam CT, robots offer increased flexibility regarding scanning trajectories. The increased flexibility with respect to scanning trajectories helps to gather highly informative content from alternative ray paths for a high-quality 3D reconstruction of the object to be scanned. Using numerical simulations we show that this additional informations increase the image quality of a CT scan of a multi-material measuring object, consisting of tantalum spheres and a carbon structure.