Laser Spot Detection Based on Reaction Diffusion

Abstract

Center-location of a laser spot is a problem of interest when the laser is used for processing and performing measurements. Measurement quality depends on correctly determining the location of the laser spot. Hence, improving and proposing algorithms for the correct location of the spots are fundamental issues in laser-based measurements. In this paper we introduce a Reaction Diffusion (RD) system as the main computational framework for robustly finding laser spot centers. The method presented is compared with a conventional approach for locating laser spots, and the experimental results indicate that RD-based computation generates reliable and precise solutions. These results confirm the flexibility of the new computational paradigm based on RD systems for addressing problems that can be reduced to a set of geometric operations.

Keywords

• reaction diffusion models
• Turing patterns
• reaction diffusion computers
• reaction diffusion computation
• Fitzhugh-Nagumo model
• laser spot position
• laser spot detection
• laser beam detection