Experimental comparison of dynamic tracking performance of iGPS and laser tracker

Zheng Wang, Luca Mastrogiacomo*, Fiorenzo Franceschini, Paul Maropoulos

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    Abstract

    External metrology systems are increasingly being integrated with traditional industrial articulated robots, especially in the aerospace industries, to improve their absolute accuracy for precision operations such as drilling, machining and jigless assembly. While currently most of the metrology assisted robotics control systems are limited in their position update rate, such that the robot has to be stopped in order to receive a metrology coordinate update, some recent efforts are addressed toward controlling robots using real-time metrology data. The indoor GPS is one of the metrology systems that may be used to provide real-time 6DOF data to a robot controller. Even if there is a noteworthy literature dealing with the evaluation of iGPS performance, there is, however, a lack of literature on how well the iGPS performs under dynamic conditions. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the dynamic measurement performance of the iGPS, tracking the trajectories of an industrial robot. The same experiment is also repeated using a laser tracker. Besides the experiment results presented, this paper also proposes a novel method for dynamic repeatability comparisons of tracking instruments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag London Limited.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)205-213
    Number of pages9
    JournalInternational Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
    Volume56
    Issue number1-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2011

    Bibliographical note

    The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00170-011-3166-0

    Keywords

    • dynamic performance
    • indoor GPS
    • laser tracker

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