Blending the State of the Art With the Tried and True: Integration of Electronic and Optical Instrum
Carson Rooms 1 and 2, enter at Carson 1
William G Jansma - Representing Argonne National Laboratory
Electronic surveying instruments such as laser trackers and digital levels have revolutionized the world of metrology over the past two decades, vastly improving the speed and accuracy of establishing high precision survey control networks and performing industrial alignment work. Although state of the art electronic coordinate measurement systems have replaced many methods traditionally used to establish networks and align machines, tried and true optical instruments and techniques continue to play an important role. In fact, optical instruments are the best choice for many alignment jobs. These technologies are not exclusive of each other. Combining electronic and optical instruments and techniques to take advantage of their complementary features has produced excellent results at both the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) accelerators at Argonne National Laboratory. This presentation describes techniques developed to integrate electronic and optical measurement and alignment systems.
