Multiview Point Cloud Registration Based on Minimum Potential Energy for Free-Form Blade Measurement
In industrial metrology, global registration of multi-view point clouds from freeform turbine blades suffers from low accuracy due to severe noise and substantial data incompleteness. To address this, this paper proposes a novel Minimum Potential Energy (MPE)-based registration method. It innovatively introduces a physical potential energy model into point cloud registration, formulating a weighted MPE optimization objective. A dual-flag mechanism is designed to dynamically assess registration status, while a coarse-to-fine strategy enhances robustness and convergence. Furthermore, a force-guided operator and an improved TrICP algorithm are introduced. Experiments on four real-world blade datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher registration accuracy and superior noise resilience compared to state-of-the-art global registration approaches, significantly improving the reliability and practicality of industrial-grade freeform surface reconstruction.