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Performance evaluation of a robot-mounted interferometer for an industrial environment
journal contribution
posted on 2020-01-08, 12:01 authored by Istvan Biro, Peter KinnellPeter KinnellHigh value manufacturing requires production-integrated, fast, multi-sensor and multi-scale inspection. To meet this need, the robotic deployment of sensors within the factory environment is becoming increasingly popular. For microscale measurement applications, robot-mountable versions of high-resolution instruments, that are traditionally deployed in a laboratory environment, are now becoming available. However, standard methodologies for the evaluation of these instruments, particularly when mounted to a robot, have yet to be fully defined, and therefore, there is limited independent evaluation data to describe the potential performance of these systems. In this paper, a detailed evaluation approach is presented for light-weight robot mountable scanning interferometric sensors. Traditional evaluation approaches are considered and extended to account for robotic sensor deployment within industrial environments. The applicability and value of proposed evaluation is demonstrated through the comprehensive characterization of a Heliotis H6 interferometric sensors. The results indicate the performance of the sensor, in comparison to a traditional laboratory-based system, and demonstrate the limits of the sensor capability. Based-on the evaluation an effective strategy for robotic deployment of the sensor is demonstrated.
Funding
Engineering and Physical Research Council in the UK (EPSRC) under grants EP/L01498X/1 and EP/I033467/1
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
SensorsVolume
20Issue
1Publisher
MDPI AGVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© The authorsPublisher statement
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Acceptance date
2019-12-28Publication date
2020-01-01Copyright date
2020eISSN
1424-8220Publisher version
Language
- en