Bridging the Gap in Unstructured Data: Cyclone REGISTER 360 vs. CORE

This is the second in a series of expert insights focused on bringingCyclone REGISTER 360into alignment with the popular toolset of Cyclone CORE. Please refer back to thefirst in this serieson UCS and Control for more information.

该专家洞察力将重点关注非结构化数据支持领域中存在的差距，这是越来越重要的主题，因为莱卡地理系统提供了基于移动传感器平台的更多自动解决方案，包括blk2go，blk弧和blk2fly。

Image 1:BLK ARC, BLK2GO, and BLK2FLY

非结构化数据是没有常规行列网格的数据。所有移动数据和LGS数据均为非结构化，而静态扫描仪收集的所有数据（即RTC360,BLK360,P-Series) is structured with the data in row column format.

With the 2022 release, Cyclone REGISTER 360 will support all the unstructured data types that Cyclone CORE supports. This goes beyond supporting new sensors to also include the popular LGS format and third-party unstructured formats, LAS, unstructured E57, PTS and more.

这些非结构化数据格式的添加支持将分支到这些自动解决方案中的用户，并确保用户可以通过旋风寄存器寄存器寄来数据汇总Trip数据360，这意味着他们从合作者那里收到的文件可以与新导入的传感器数据集成并合并为单个项目。同样，它为用户提供了采用这些非结构化格式的能力，并通过将其发布为LGS，将其推向下游工作流程，并将其直接打开。CloudWorxor creating a newCyclone ENTERPRISEproject with the data which provides a pathway to CloudWorx,Cyclone 3DR,Map360and thePowered by JetStreamfamily of products.

对于某些行业，非结构化数据是激光扫描的未来。随着这些自主解决方案在这些行业中继续改善和获得牵引力，连续扫描模型可以完全取代静态扫描。它使用户可以更快地捕获更大的区域。但是，它仍然存在缺点 - 更低的准确性和数据保真度仍在解决，并且仍然是对整合激光扫描且准确性至关重要的行业的关注领域。

As mobile sensor data improves, it is becoming accepted in sectors从历史上看，仅使用结构化数据。从工厂和加工到BIM，民事调查以及其他非标准行业，例如电影制作，GIS和城市规划，非结构化数据在标准可交付成果中变得越来越普遍。由于扫描的可能性很大，因此需要注册100次静态扫描而不是更少的非结构化扫描，这是田间和办公室节省时间的巨大优势。

And it’s not only Leica’s mobile solutions that are shaking up the 3D Scanning world—third-party mobile scanners are cropping up, and Leica Cyclone products remain the best solution for those seeking to fuse data from different sensors and different manufacturers. It is important that we continue to provide a solution for both experienced and new users to leverage the benefits of sensor fusion.

为此，旋风寄存器360 2022.0.0将支持以下非结构化数据格式和IMPORT后工具，以促进使用非结构化数据：

• Import of BLK2GO data
• Import of BLK2FLY data
• Import of BLK ARC data
• Import of Pegasus MMS data
• Import of unstructured PTS
• 导入TXT
• Import/Export of unstructured E57
• Import /Export of unstructured RCP
• Import/Export of LAS
• Import/Export of LGS (including those without Normals)
• WayPoint creation post-import
• Enhanced Suggested link creation
• Link creation criteria

New Format Support

The addition of these new formats can have wide-reaching implications for users. Whereas Cyclone CORE has traditionally been the place where all data, from any scanner, any source, could be combined, that is now true of Cyclone REGISTER 360, meaning that users can take advantage of the smart automation and modern UI of Cyclone REGISTER 360 while also getting the powerful format support traditionally found in Cyclone CORE. In particular, the addition of unstructured E57—the most popular neutral point cloud format means that just about any data from any third-party product can now be imported into Cyclone REGISTER 360, registered with other data and published out either in a neutral format or specifically into Leica’s downstream workflow.

There are a couple of things that users should note as they begin importing unstructured data.Be aware that Auto Cloud, Auto Target and Auto Sphere import options are not supported for unstructured data. Unstructured data imports containing a large number of points can also take longer to import than a structured data set of the same point count.

添加这些功能和功能是通过旋风核心内部可用的工具告知的。

LGS是Cyclone Register 360支持的第一种非结构化格式。作为Leica-native格式，这是我们多年来继续改进和进步的领域。该版本对LGS文件的处理方式引入了一些改进。通过不处理导入时注册的所有路点，LGS导入时间得到了改善。这大大加快了进口的速度。如果导入后，用户选择要注册的航路点，则将在输入视觉对齐时处理该路点。这样可以确保未经不必要的未使用的航路点可以消耗宝贵的时间并增加项目规模。

Waypoint创建帖子导入

The ability to create WayPoints—or pseudo-Setup positions—replicates the features in Cyclone CORE known asInsert CameraandInsert Camera Height。A WayPoint (or inserted Camera) is a synthetic Setup that only contains a position and associated imagery generated from that position upon creation. Because a WayPoint is generated from the scan data, it doesn’t contain a traditional pano; instead, it contains a pano of the scan data.

Image 2:Comparison of a traditional pano image and a point cloud pano.

When the BLK2GO was introduced, Cyclone REGISTER 360 added the ability to create WayPoints along the trajectory of the Walk at a set interval as part of the import process. Now, however, users can create additional WayPoints anywhere within their project—not just on the trajectory. This functionality is available for any project (structured or unstructured), allowing users to scale up the navigability of their data set without increasing the project size.

Image 3:WayPoints are inserted along the trajectory of the mobile data capture. Additional WayPoints can be added as needed post-import.

在很多方面,它是相似可以测量的pano, add GeoTags or Snapshots and jump to other Setup/WayPoint positions in downstream applications. WayPoints support easy navigation within a mobile sensor dataset. You can jump between them as you would Setups and you can create Snapshots from them within TruView. However, because these inserted WayPoints may be far from the actual capture location, it is important to consider that they may have sparser data and a greater error than those which are on the trajectory or close to a Setup.

Suggested Links and Link Creation Criteria

In Cyclone REGISTER 360 2022.0.0, users can addup to 5000 suggested links per Bundle (up from 500). Suggested links are a graphical way to draw attention to possible additional links in a Bundle. Once the command is used, dashed white lines appear within the Bundle. Adding additional links tightens a Bundle making it more rigid and accurate. Users of Cyclone CORE will be familiar with the concept of adding links known as constraints in Cyclone CORE.

Unlike in Cyclone CORE, however, Cyclone REGISTER 360 offers advanced Link Creation Criteria that give the user a great deal of control over the quality of the links created没有having to QA each link manually. A user can set minimum cloud-to-cloud error and minimum overlap per link. By default, Link creation Criteria is set to 12mm or ~.5 inch for cloud-to-cloud and 20% for minimum overlap, but this can be adjusted from within the Settings. Any links created by this feature must meet the link criteria, or the link is not created, thereby ensuring that only links meeting the user’s minimum quality criteria are used in the Bundle. Users can opt to override these settings during Visual Alignment on a link-by-link basis.

图4：Suggested links are displayed as white dashed lines. Users can set a maximum for the quantity of suggested links to manage their automatic creation.

Conclusion

通过改进旋风寄存器360的改进，以改善其对UCS和控制的处理，现在支持非结构化数据，因此旋风核心和旋风分离器寄存器360之间的差距急剧缩小。在下一个主要版本中，将要解决一些关键的改进领域，这些版本将导致产品的完全，功能性的均等，并允许所有用户切换到下一代Cyclone寄存器360。这些改进包括支持甚至包括对bob综合app下载较大的项目，切除和遍历的支持，为那些依靠配备DAC的扫描仪进行调查工作流以及全球约束列表，以支持依赖目标的用户。

We encourage users to become an active part of our road-mapping process participating in the Customer Feedback Programme. You cansubmit your feedbackand feature requests by clicking the link.

Customer feedback and requests are an important part of our product development plans, with between 20-30% of customer suggestions being implemented within a year while others are added to our long-term roadmaps.

We look forward to hearing your feedback on the improvements discussed in this expert insight, as well as your suggestions for future improvements.