Laser trackers for large-scale dimensional metrology: A review

Muralikrishnan, Balasubramanian; Phillips, Steven D.; Sawyer, Daniel S.

doi:10.1016/j.precisioneng.2015.12.001

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“…Automotive industry especially car production use a laser-based geometrical inspection technique (Bogue, 2008;Muralikrishnan et al, 2016) to speed up inspection activity while maintaining high accuracy in delivering a high quality product. Comparison of reference model (i.e.…”

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Alignment measurement technique for satellite assembly, integration, and test

Zulkifli

2017

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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In a satellite development cycle, alignment measurement is crucial especially during assembly and integration of satellite part and component as well as a series of mechanical tests performed onto it. It plays a vital role in ensuring critical components of satellite such as antenna, solar panels and reaction wheels are correctly and precisely aligned as per design specifications. Besides, it serves as complimentary analyses for pre and post inspection and verification during mechanical tests. Combination of two measurement parameters, namely the orientation (angle) and the position (distance) will provide complete coordinate knowledge of satellite system. Selection of appropriate measurement technique and equipment on large scale measurement play significant factor in determining the whole measurement plan. Further analyses of measured data will be performed on metrology software, Spatial Analyzer. Details on technique used for satellite alignment measurement are elaborated. A measurement model and real measurement data emphasizing on effectiveness of the mentioned technique are presented.

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Alignment measurement technique for satellite assembly, integration, and test

Zulkifli

2017

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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“…A laser tracker is used as the reference instrument (RI) to calibrate the test setups. For readers not familiar with the laser tracker technology, a review can be found in [3].…”

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“…This procedure is based on work reported in [3]. Averaging front-and back-face measurements removes errors associated with terms that reverse in sign between front-face and back-face.…”

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Report on the May 2016 ASTM E57.02 Instrument Runoff at NIST, Part 2 � NIST Realization of Test Procedures and Uncertainties in the Reference Lengths

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Rachakonda²,

Shilling³

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“…Although multi-DOF measurement systems can distinctly decrease the test time, the measurable range is usually smaller than a meter. Laser Tracker [5,6] and LaserTRACER [7][8][9] both belong to a kind of ATLI. The comparison of the measurement accuracy/uncertainty for different types of ATLIs is shown in Table 1.…”

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Relationship between ISO 230-2/-6 Test Results and Positioning Accuracy of Machine Tools Using LaserTRACER

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Abstract:To test the positioning accuracy and repeatability of the linear axes of machine tools, ISO (International Standards Organization) 230-2 and ISO 230-6 are usually adopted. Auto-tracking laser interferometers (ATLI) can perform the testing for the positioning accuracy and the repeatability including x-, y-and z-axes according to ISO 230-2 as well as xy, xz, yz, and xyz diagonal lines following ISO 230-6. LaserTRACER is a kind of ATLI. One of the steps of the ISO 230-2 and -6 tests using LaserTRACER is to determine the coordinate of the LaserTRACER with respect to the home point of the machine tool. Positioning accuracy of the machine tool causes the coordinate determined error, which might influence the test result. To check on this error, this study performs three experiments. The experiment results show that the positioning error appears on the testing results.

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Laser trackers for large-scale dimensional metrology: A review

Cited by 195 publications

References 69 publications

Alignment measurement technique for satellite assembly, integration, and test

Alignment measurement technique for satellite assembly, integration, and test

Report on the May 2016 ASTM E57.02 Instrument Runoff at NIST, Part 2 � NIST Realization of Test Procedures and Uncertainties in the Reference Lengths

Relationship between ISO 230-2/-6 Test Results and Positioning Accuracy of Machine Tools Using LaserTRACER

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