title: Enhanced scanning agility using a double pair of Risley prisms.
abstract: Scanners with one pair of Risley prisms are robust and precise and they can be operated continuously. In this paper, we present a new scanner based on the use of two pairs of Risley prisms. The concept was driven by the need to add flexibility to Risley prism scanners used for lidar 3D mapping applications, while maintaining compactness and robustness. The first pair covers a FOV narrower than the second pair. The second pair is used to position the first Risley pair scan pattern anywhere within its own, larger, FOV. Doing so, it becomes possible, without additional scanner components, to increase the sampling point density at a specific location, to increase the sampling uniformity of the scanned area, and, while in motion, to maintain the sampling of a specific area of interest.
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Xiaoying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bernier
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roy