This paper describes accuracy measurement method for high resolution miniature robot manipulators. The robot itself, measuring method and the results are presented. Parallel kinematic robot structures have by now seen as the most promising, due to their simpler and stiffer structure and easier miniaturisation. A robot using the direct drive method and direct high resolution feedback has been st...

We are developing an instrument, the Geometry Measuring Machine (GEMM), to measure the profile errors of aspheric and free form optical surfaces, with measurement uncertainties near 1 nm. Using GEMM, an optical profile is reconstructed from local curvatures of a surface, which are measured at points on the optic's surface. We will describe a prototype version of GEMM, its repeatability with tim...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of implant position transfer and surface detail reproduction using two impression techniques and materials. materials and methods: a metal model with two implants and three grooves of 0.25, 0.50 and 0.75 mm in depth on the flat superior surface of a die was fabricated. ten regular-body polyether (pe) and 10 regular-body polyvinyl...

A micro coordinate measurement machine (micro-CMM) with high precision and high accuracy is introduced for the measurement of part dimensions in micro scale. This design is intended to achieve submicron resolution for a work envelop of at least (100x100x100) mm. In this study, a mathematical measuring model to explicitly define the coordinate of the probe in x, y and z directions have been repr...

A linear model based on the spherical coordinate system is employed for tting a spherical surface to a data set obtained by a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). In practice, measurement data may have unequal accuracy on the diierent coordinate axes, thus a liner model with heteroscedastic variance of random errors is considered. A feasible weighted least squares estimate is proposed and its su...

There are a great variety of applications that depend on analyzing the motion in image sequences. These include motion detection for surveillance, image sequence data compression (MPEG), image understanding (motion-based segmentation, depth/structure from motion), obstacle avoidance, image registration and compositing. The rst step in processing image sequences is typically image velocity estim...

In this paper, a fiducial-aided reconfigurable artefact is presented for estimating volumetric errors of multi-axis machine tools. The makes use an adjustable number standard balls as fiducials to build 3D which has been calibrated on coordinate measuring (CMM). This demonstrates its reconfigurability in and their locations according the characteristics workpieces developed kinematics tool were...