Abstract
ASME B89.4.19 was written to test cooperative-target laser trackers in an indoor manufacturing environment, covering ranging and volumetric performance. Steven Phillips is as interested in what it does not cover: outdoor environments with rain and fog, non-cooperative targets such as concrete, wood and dirt, and dynamic effects from a moving target. The talk describes NIST's implementation of the standard – the ranging test built on six calibrated lengths that ties the ranging system to the SI metre, and the one-dimensional cooperative-target range facility with a carriage that takes a variety of targets – and what testing real instruments against it has shown.
Also published as CMSJ-02-2-02, The Journal of the CMSC, Volume 2, Number 2 (Autumn 2007).
Cite this paper
Steven D. Phillips, Bala Muralikrishnan, Daniel Sawyer, Chris Blackburn, Bruce Borchardt, W. Tyler Estler. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2007, Reno, Nevada, July 16-20, 2007. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2007-010.