Concise proof of Tienstra's formula

The resection problem consists in finding the location of an observer by measuring the angles subtended by lines of sight from this observer to three known stations. Many researchers and practitioners recognize that Tienstra’s formula provides the most compact and elegant solution to this problem. U...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Porta, Josep M., Thomas, Federico
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/30496
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/30496
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Tienstra's formula
Triangulation
Resection
Global localization
Barycentric coordinates
Robotics
Robots
Descrição
Resumo:The resection problem consists in finding the location of an observer by measuring the angles subtended by lines of sight from this observer to three known stations. Many researchers and practitioners recognize that Tienstra’s formula provides the most compact and elegant solution to this problem. Unfortunately, all available proofs for this remarkable formula are intricate. This paper shows how, by using barycentric coordinates for the observer in terms of the locations of the stations, a neat and short proof is straightforwardly derived.