Technical Papers & Journals

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Survey and Alignment for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Project

William. G. Jansma, Joshua S. Downey, Rolando C. Gwekoh, Altaf A. Khan, Keith B. Knight, Animesh Jain, Samuel P. Jarvis, Jeremy Nudell

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a synchrotron X-ray facility located at Argonne National Laboratory that has been in operation since 1996. An extensive upgrade to replace the original APS electron storage ring with a state-of-the-art machine was recently completed. The ~1,100-meter circumference storage ring generates X-rays up to 500 times brighter than those created by the original APS. With the new ring completed, focus has shifted to the upgrade and realignment of X-ray beamlines.

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Artifact for testing terrestrial laser scanner for errors arising from target optical properties

Braden Czapla, Vincent Lee, Bala Muralikrishnan, Tam Vo, Matthew Winger,

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) are a type of coordinate metrology instrument which collects the three-dimensional coordinates of a scene by measuring the range that a laser beam travels and its orientation (azimuthal and elevation angles). TLSs are subject to a variety of error sources, including those which arise in the ranging, measurement of angles, and interaction of the laser beam with the scanned surface. Documentary standards exist which prescribe tests to expose some of those error sources, including ASTM E2938-15, which addresses errors arising from the ranging unit of a TLS, and ASTM E3125-17, which addresses those from any inherent optical misalignments (leading primarily to angular errors) inside a TLS. While ASTM E2938-15 does allow one to scan different materials, it only captures the impact of the materials’ optical properties in aggregate, along with all other sources’ contribution to ranging errors.

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Novel Experimental Testing Beds for the Latest Scanners in Portable Metrology

Jose Corona, Chris Greer, Marie Craven

The advancements in the field of metrology have significantly improved the capability of scanning equipment.  There are a plethora of different types of scanners available on the market with the potential of collecting large volumes of data at...

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Measurement of detailed features as part of large-scale measurement

Rehab Khattab, Dr. Edward Morse

Various large-scale metrology tools have proven their worth in measuring aircraft (and other) components whose size is measured in tens of meters. The primary output of these measurements is geometry data, such as cross-sectional profiles, the shape of...

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Inspection of Surface Discontinuities on Aerostructures and Other Flight Critical Components

Veniamin Stryzheus, Brian Miller, Matthew Chen, Bryan Bramwell, Sabyasachi Basu

The inspection of surface discontinuities on aerostructures and other flight critical components is an integral part of aerospace manufacturing because it helps to ensure product safety and quality. Proper identification, measurement, and rework of surface...

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Benefits of Computed Tomography for Three-Dimensional Metrology

David Caprio

High-performance hardware and intelligent measurement software enable coordinate measuring machines with computed tomography to achieve ever higher accuracies and measuring speeds than conventional CMMs (coordinate measuring machines). This means that...

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Test Plan Creation Best Practices for Metrology Hardware and Software

Monica Kirby

Rigorous testing is crucial to the functionality, reliability, and the user experience of a system.  However, test plans are generally made without clear pass/fail criteria and other important details, making them difficult to repeat.  This lack...

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Non-Contact Tooling Uncertainty Analysis

Jeffrey Hammond

The paper will detail the testing uncertainty analysis of non-contact targets (high contrast black and white targets, 38.1mm Spheres, and 63.5mm spheres). With the combination of non-contact metrology with traditional laser tracker (SMR) measurements the...

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Boeing In-Flight Wing Deflection Measurement

Tim Kneier, Patricia Castellon

The Video Displacement System (VDS) is a video camera-based photogrammetry system developed by the Boeing Research and Technology Group to measure the wing bending and twist as well as the position and orientation of wing control surfaces during flight....

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Scalable low-cost photogrammetry, simultaneously 6DoF tracking fifty objects

Stuart Robson, Ben Sargeant, Rebekah Smith, Charles Richards, Alberto Mendikute and Pablo Puerto

EU project Dynamite, “Dynamic applications of large volume metrology in industry of tomorrow environments” is directed at enhancing the ability to measure size, location, orientation and shape of large objects, assemblies, or large working-volume...

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