Digital metrological twins for advanced manufacturing (ADAM)
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Digital metrological twins for advanced manufacturing (ADAM)
Advanced manufacturing enables novel design and production techniques for industrial products with complex freeform geometries. It also meets the increasing demand for fast and contactless measurements in industrial quality control using optical sensors. However, current simulation-based methods using Digital-Metrological Twins (D-MTs) to determine measurement uncertainty do not cover such developments in advanced manufacturing. To address this issue, this project will develop reliable model descriptions, accurate mathematical models for use in D-MTs, traceable parametrisation methods for measurement uncertainty evaluation in D-MTs. The project will also optimise the performance of the developed D-MTs for advanced manufacturing applications, as well as producing case studies comparing optical and tactile measurements using complex freeform geometries and guidance for D-MT use in advanced industrial applications.
Our role
VSL brings its expertise to this project with regard to traceable tactile measurements using coordinate measuring machines, their mathematical modeling and an improvement in uncertainty evaluation. VSL will contribute to the development of “soft gauges”, which are datasets of virtual standards that can be used for testing digital models. The most important contribution is the development of uncertainty calculations (possibly expanded to a full virtual CMM) for calibration methods on the 3D CMM of various standards, such as rings, pins and gauge blocks. VSL will demonstrate this by performing tactile measurements and applying the developed uncertainty simulations.
Startdatum: September 1, 2024
Einddatum: Augustus 31, 2027
More information on the research project can be found on its web page www.adam.ptb.de
“The project has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and by the Participating States.”
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