Abstract
Portable coordinate metrology grew out of two separate traditions – industrial photogrammetry from the 1970s and industrial surveying with theodolite networks from the 1980s – which have since converged, while arm technology developed alongside and now complements and sometimes integrates with them. The 1990s added the laser tracker and fixed-base photogrammetric systems. That history is the problem this talk addresses: a field assembled from several disciplines, with no common training path. Stephen Kyle and Keith Bevan set out the scope of portable coordinate metrology and what a training programme for it would have to cover.
Cite this paper
Stephen Kyle, Keith Bevan. micronSpace; University College London (UCL); National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2010, Reno, Nevada, July 12-16, 2010. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2010-011.