Bundle Adjustments and Tri-Dimensional Coordinate Determination

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1448698· OSTI ID:1448698

Gaunt, J.M. ^[1]

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1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Since its purchase in 1986, the KERN ECDS-PC system has become an essential tool in the work of SLAC’s survey group. The principal element of its computational software is the adjustment system (in fact analogous to a photogrammetical bundle adjustment) which, unfortunately, has proved inflexible to the varied demands of precision accelerator alignment. With the refusal of KERN to part with the source code, it was decided to produce an “in-house” adjustment system that could cater for the survey specialties of SLAC. This report documents the mathematical and theoretical aspects of the resulting programs; “3DCD” (3-dimensional coordinate determination) and “INTER2” (an interim program used to convert the raw data logged by the ECDS-PC system to a formatted input file for 3DCD). In addition, “SETOUT” provides an option of setout angle calculation, using output from the adjustment program.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1448698
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB--4717
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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