Industrial Application Use Cases of LiDAR Sensors Beyond Autonomous Driving

This paper is giving an overview on different industrial application fields for LiDAR sensors beyond the field of autonomous driving. With insights to three specific use cases, different approaches to process the LiDAR point cloud data are described and referring results and findings of the developed applications are summarized. The application fields of the described use cases are the surveillance of industrial process environments of automated fenceless cells, the provision of visual assistance and location information for crane operators and the monitoring of the storage space occupancy in a port terminal. Based on the information from the three use cases and further general LiDAR related background an initial morphological box is drafted to enable the classification of industrial LiDAR use cases. The paper concludes with a brief overview on future work.