Standard-wheel-based field calibration method for railway wheelset diameter online measuring system.

Laser displacement sensor (LDS)-based online measuring of the wheel diameter has been widely adopted in engineering for advantages such as noncontact, high efficiency, and high precision. For almost all these online measuring systems, calibration is certainly needed in order to obtain the extrinsic parameters of sensors. A field-based easy-to-operate, economical, and efficient calibration method is proposed for an LDS-based wheel diameter online measuring system.