Abstract
NIST's account of how large-scale metrology instruments are evaluated, and of the facilities built to do it. The talk covers laser trackers, laser radar and laser scanners against the ANSI/ASME B89.4.19 standard, separating volumetric system tests from ranging tests, and describes NIST's volumetric test facilities for cooperative targets per B89 together with the non-cooperative range then in prospect. On the ranging side it sets out the 60 m (200 ft) cooperative-target range built to B89 and the 65 m (215 ft) non-cooperative-target range, and what single-channel and multi-channel systems do differently when the target is the part itself.
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W. Tyler Estler, Daniel S. Sawyer, Bruce Borchardt, Steven D. Phillips. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2006, Orlando, Florida, July 17-21, 2006. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2006-006.