A Low-cost Ultrasonic 3D Measurement Device for Calibration for Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Machines

Aldawi, Fouad, Longstaff, Andrew P., Fletcher, Simon, Mather, Peter, Myers, Alan and Briggs, Jack (2009) A Low-cost Ultrasonic 3D Measurement Device for Calibration for Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Machines. Journal of the Japanese Society of Experimental Mechanics, 9 (S). pp. 77-80. ISSN 1346-4930

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Abstract

This paper introduces ultrasonic 3D position measurement system that will estimate the location of a wave source by triangulating its position based on a multiple-frequency continuous wave (MFcw) to three receivers fixed to an inertial frame of reference. The Typical application of this system is finding the location of the transmitter that may be fixed on CNC machine, a robot end-effector. The receivers have to be fixed in specific locations, the major source of the problems are in the installation/calibration stage since the receivers are usually distributed in space and finding their exact location entails using a separate 3D calibrating device which may or may not be as accurate as the location system itself. This paper presents a method to use the system itself to set up an inertial frame of reference and find out the locations of the receivers.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering School of Computing and Engineering > Centre for Precision Technologies School of Computing and Engineering > Centre for Precision Technologies > Engineering Control and Machine Performance Research Group School of Computing and Engineering > Systems Engineering Research Group
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Depositing User:	Helene Pickles
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2010 15:24
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2017 18:45
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/6690

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