Technical Papers & Journals

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Coordinate Measuring Machines in a Department of Defense Research Environment

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, primarily develops, builds demonstration prototypes and conducts performance experimentation of cutting edge technology in support of national defense. IT and physical security...

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Multiple Laser Tracker synchronization for the Vibration Analysis

Measuring the mechanical coupling and rigidity of a large apparatus presents unique challenges for 3D metrology. In this case the motion of well separated points attached to a rotor blade must be rapidly and repeatedly measured and the resulting data...

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Software configuration management and automated secure data storage for metrology processes

With a mission to compensate and 6 DOF locate several hundred 2 or 3 axis machines with an evolving software process and changing inputs, several significant data handling problems arose.  How are all input data, scripts and other software versions...

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Cloud to Crane: Laser Scanning for Modeling and Simulation

Cloud to Crane: Laser Scanning for Modeling and Simulation ...

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Experimental Evaluation of Leica T-Mac Angular Accuracy

The Leica T-Mac (Tracker Machine control sensor) is a unique dynamic large volume 6DOF metrology system widely used for scanning, probing, and calibration and real-time control of machine tools and robots. It is a hybrid metrology system utilizing both...

CMSC 2018 Presentation - Laser Tracking Measurement System Based on Dual Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb

Laser tracking measurement system is one of the most commonly used large-scale measurement systems in the fields of aircraft inspection, ship-building, automobile assembly and other machinery manufacturing. It can get an object’s spatial position using...

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Volume 13, Issue 1

Davide Bianculli, David Humphries

Terrestrial laser scanners can collect a million points per second. This technology is widely used in fields such as topography, forensics, building, mining, as-built surveying, architecture, archaeology, monitoring, civil engineering, and urban modeling....

Application of Terrestrial Laser Scanner in Particle Accelerator and Reverse-Engineering Solutions

Volume 13, Issue 1

Davide Bianculli, David Humphries

Terrestrial laser scanners can collect a million points per second. This technology is widely used in fields such as topography, forensics, building, mining, as-built surveying, architecture, archaeology, monitoring, civil engineering, and urban modeling....

A New Methodology for the Assessment of Relative Pointing Accuracy and Active Alignment Requirements of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Volume 13, Issue 1

Unai Mutilba, Gorka Kortaberria, Fernando Ega

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large (8.4 m) wide-field (3.5

Integrating Inertial Sensors With Optical Measurement Systems

Volume 13, Issue 1

Bo Sun, Linghui Yang, Yongjie Ren, Jiarui Lin, Yin Guo, Shibin Yin, Jigui Zhu, Rodrigo Gonzalez

To date, a large variety of optical measurement systems have been used in the industrial field for geometric inspection. Some of these have been integrated into the manufacturing process. However, these systems still confront challenges with the...