TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem that the analytic solution model of spatial three-dimensional coordinate measuring system based on dual-position sensitive detector (PSD) is complex and its precision is not high.Design/methodology/approach A new three-dimensional coordinate measurement algorithm by optimizing back propagation (BP) neural network based on genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed. The mapping relation between three-dimensional coordinates of space points in the world coordinate system and light spot coordinates formed on dual-PSD has been built and applied to the prediction of three-dimensional coordinates of space points.Findings The average measurement error of three-dimensional coordinates of space points at three-dimensional coordinate measuring system based on dual-PSD based on GA-BP neural network is relatively small. This method does not require considering the lens distortion and the non-linearity of PSD. It has simple structure and high precision and is suitable for three-dimensional coordinate measurement of space points.Originality/value A new three-dimensional coordinate measurement algorithm by optimizing BP neural network based on GA is proposed to predict three-dimensional coordinates of space points formed on three-dimensional coordinate measuring system based on dual-PSD. VL - 36 IS - 6 SN - 0264-4401 DO - 10.1108/EC-09-2018-0410 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-09-2018-0410 AU - Lu Xiaohong AU - Wang Yongquan AU - Li Jie AU - Zhou Yang AU - Ren Zongjin AU - Liang Steven Y. PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - Three-dimensional coordinate measurement algorithm by optimizing BP neural network based on GA T2 - Engineering Computations PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 2066 EP - 2083 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -