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In this study, a mobile laser scanning system (MLSS) was used for the inspection of subway tunnels, and the key technology of the positioning and orientation system (POS) was investigated. We utilized the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the odometer as the core sensors of the POS. The initial attitude of the MLSS was obtained by using a static initial alignment method. Considering that there is no global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal in a subway, the forward and backward dead reckoning (DR) algorithm was used to calculate the positions and attitudes of the MLSS from any starting point in two directions. While the MLSS passed by the control points distributed on both sides of the track, the local coordinates of the control points were transmitted to the center of the MLSS by using the ranging information of the laser scanner. Then, a four-parameter transformation method was used to correct the error of the POS and transform the 3-D state information of the MLSS from a navigation coordinate system (NCS) to a local coordinate system (LCS). This method can completely eliminate a MLSS\u2019s dependence on GNSS signals, and the obtained positioning and attitude information can be used for point cloud data fusion to directly obtain the coordinates in the LCS. In a tunnel of the Beijing\u2013Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, when the distance interval of the control points used for correction was 120 m, the accuracy of the 3-D coordinates of the point clouds was 8 mm, and the experiment also showed that it takes less than 4 h to complete all the inspection work for a 5\u20136 km long tunnel. Further, the results from the inspection work of Wuhan subway lines showed that when the distance intervals of the control points used for correction were 60 m, 120 m, 240 m, and 480 m, the accuracies of the 3-D coordinates of the point clouds in the local coordinate system were 4 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, and 8 mm, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20030645","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,23]],"date-time":"2020-01-23T10:36:02Z","timestamp":1579775762000},"page":"645","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Absolute Positioning and Orientation of MLSS in a Subway Tunnel Based on Sparse Point-Assisted DR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Qian","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"China University of Geosciences, NO.29 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Geophysical Exploration Academy of China Metallurgical Geology Bureau, NO.139 Sunshine North Street, Baoding 071051, China"},{"name":"Zhengyuan Geophysical Co., Ltd., NO.139 Sunshine North Street, Baoding 071051, China"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Urban Construction Exploration &amp; Surveying Design Research Institute CO., LTD, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Urban Intelligent Perception &amp; Precision Measurement Engineering Technology Center, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 490079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4766-6718","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cuijun","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7948-2828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qingzhou","family":"Mao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhan Metro Bridge and Tunnel Management Co., Ltd., NO.22 Qinyuan Road, Wuhan 430000, China"}]},{"given":"Jianping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China University of Geosciences, NO.29 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Haiqian","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Urban Construction Exploration &amp; Surveying Design Research Institute CO., LTD, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"Urban Intelligent Perception &amp; Precision Measurement Engineering Technology Center, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 490079, China"}]},{"given":"Yonggang","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhan Hirail Profiling Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan 430060, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"70","article-title":"Metro Clearance detection based on laser measurement","volume":"5","author":"Li","year":"2007","journal-title":"Urban Rapid Rail Trans."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gao, X., Yu, L., and Yang, Z. 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