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MScMS-II: an innovative IR-based indoor coordinate measuring system for large-scale metrology applications

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According to the current great interest concerning large-scale metrology applications in many different fields of manufacturing industry, technologies and techniques for dimensional measurement have recently shown a substantial improvement. Ease-of-use, logistic and economic issues, as well as metrological performance are assuming a more and more important role among system requirements. This paper describes the architecture and the working principles of a novel infrared (IR) optical-based system, designed to perform low-cost and easy indoor coordinate measurements of large-size objects. The system consists of a distributed network-based layout, whose modularity allows fitting differently sized and shaped working volumes by adequately increasing the number of sensing units. Differently from existing spatially distributed metrological instruments, the remote sensor devices are intended to provide embedded data elaboration capabilities, in order to share the overall computational load. The overall system functionalities, including distributed layout configuration, network self-calibration, 3D point localization, and measurement data elaboration, are discussed. A preliminary metrological characterization of system performance, based on experimental testing, is also presented.

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    Maurizio Galetto, Luca Mastrogiacomo & Barbara Pralio

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Galetto, M., Mastrogiacomo, L. & Pralio, B. MScMS-II: an innovative IR-based indoor coordinate measuring system for large-scale metrology applications. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 52, 291–302 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-010-2717-0

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