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However, spatial information of the elbow joints is rarely extracted and analyzed from observations such as point cloud data obtained from laser scanning due to lack of a complete geometric model that can be applied to different types of joints. In this paper, we proposed a novel geometric model and several model adaptions for typical elbow joints including the 90\u00b0 and 45\u00b0 types, which facilitates the use of 3D point clouds of the elbow joints collected from laser scanning. The model comprises translational, rotational, and dimensional parameters, which can be used not only for monitoring the joints\u2019 geometry but also other applications such as point cloud registrations. Both simulated and real datasets were used to verify the model, and two applications derived from the proposed model (point cloud registration and mounting bracket detection) were shown. The results of the geometric fitting of the simulated datasets suggest that the model can accurately recover the geometry of the joint with very low translational (0.3 mm) and rotational (0.064\u00b0) errors when \u00b10.02 m random errors were introduced to coordinates of a simulated 90\u00b0 joint (with diameter equal to 0.2 m). The fitting of the real datasets suggests that the accuracy of the diameter estimate reaches 97.2%. The joint-based registration accuracy reaches sub-decimeter and sub-degree levels for the translational and rotational parameters, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20164594","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,17]],"date-time":"2020-08-17T04:35:51Z","timestamp":1597638951000},"page":"4594","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Geometric Modelling for 3D Point Clouds of Elbow Joints in Piping Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3318-7540","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting On","family":"Chan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Linyuan","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7038-073X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Derek D.","family":"Lichti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yeran","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA28PP, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6091-3114","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qianxia","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Geo-Simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"632","DOI":"10.1016\/j.measurement.2019.01.095","article-title":"Robust cylinder fitting in laser scanning point cloud data","volume":"138","author":"Nurunnabi","year":"2019","journal-title":"Measurement"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"150","DOI":"10.1016\/j.autcon.2019.03.013","article-title":"Extraction of pipes and flanges from point clouds for automated verification of pre-fabricated modules in oil and gas refinery projects","volume":"103","author":"Maalek","year":"2019","journal-title":"Autom. 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