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To suppress laser dithering, a scheme for reduction of the influence of laser beam directional dithering in a laser triangulation displacement probe, which consists of a collimated red laser, a laser beam pointing control setup, a receiver lens, and a charge-coupled device, is proposed in this paper. The laser beam pointing control setup is inserted into the source laser beam and the measured object and can separate the source laser beam into two symmetrical laser beams. Hence, at the angle at which the source laser beam dithers, the positional averages of the two laser spots are equal and opposite. Moreover, a virtual linear function method is used to maintain a stable average of the positions of the two spots on the imaging side. Experimental results indicate that with laser beam pointing control, the estimated standard deviation of the fitting error decreases from 0.3531    mm    to 0.0100    mm   , the repeatability accuracy can be lowered from \u00b17    mm    to \u00b15     \u03bc m    , and the nonlinear error can be reduced from \u00b16 % FS (full scale) to \u00b10.16 % FS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17051126","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,15]],"date-time":"2017-05-15T12:16:12Z","timestamp":1494850572000},"page":"1126","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Reduction of the Influence of Laser Beam Directional Dithering in a Laser Triangulation Displacement Probe"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Hongwei","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Tao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhengqi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siwei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoqia","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Instrument and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5824","DOI":"10.3390\/s120505824","article-title":"An automated inner dimensional measurement system based on a laser displacement sensor for long-stepped pipes","volume":"12","author":"Zhang","year":"2012","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Yang, T., Wang, Z., Wu, Z., Li, X., Wang, L., and Liu, C. 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