UCL-Brazil International Collaboration Workshop in Advanced Metrology and Large Structures Testing

便携式3D测量技术允许将测量工具带到被测物体上，并可以处理动态情况，是这里感兴趣的基本技术。由于其灵活性，这些工具提供了相当大的范围来扩展计量的应用，从而进一步推动其发展。在过去的25年里，我们看到了诸如动态跟踪激光测距仪和高度自动化的视觉计量系统等重大发展。另一个计量驱动力是工业4.0，这是一种工业哲学或源于德国的新工业革命。它描述了制造技术中自动化和数据交换的当前趋势以及向智能工厂的转变。计量学是一个经常被研究资助计划忽略的主题，尽管它的经济影响已经在全球范围内产生了200多家3D系统制造商，200多家3D计量服务公司和一系列最终用户，包括空中客车，波音，巴西航空工业公司，美国宇航局，福特，奥迪，宝马，大众，通用电气，KUKA和CERN：建立工业界和学术界合作伙伴的在线网络将大大提高通过研究资金更容易利用这些机会的能力。通过公共网站等方式进行合作知识转让，将提高这些机构应用和开发三维计量的能力，从而使各方受益。通过推广他们的设施，并将他们的集体专业知识集中到感兴趣的公众中，这些团体可以扩大识别3D计量特定问题的范围。这将对他们的个人和集体研究产生更大的影响，进而鼓励与商业和行业合作伙伴的进一步联系。2017年9月，将对巴西进行为期10天的探索性访问，由新成立的ISI SIM和LGI研究所主办，评估合作和信息交流领域。临时访问将与9月19日至22日在Joinville举行的全国移动工程大会重叠。大会吸引了来自巴西各地的工程专业学生。该位置也是LGI基地。因此，UCL和主办机构将利用这个机会向巴西的广泛学术受众展示3D计量学。东道机构还将帮助促进与巴西工业界的讨论，以确定可以应用和发展计量学的领域。ISI SIM和LGI与造船、航空航天、汽车和模塑行业有联系，并计划访问巴西航空工业公司、圣保罗和若因维尔附近的NAVSHIP造船厂。还建议在ISI SIM基地São Leopoldo举办一次讲习班，向巴西当地工业介绍三维计量学。ISI SIM和LGI的团队能够很好地支持这些研讨会和演示，并提供演示系统和相关项目工作。

Portable 3D metrology, which allows measurement tools to be brought to the measured objects and which can handle dynamic situations, is the essential technology of interest here. Due to their flexible nature, these tools offer considerable scope to expand the application of metrology which, in turn, further drives its development. The past 25 years have seen major developments such as dynamically tracking laser range finders and highly automated vision metrology systems. Another metrology driver is Industry 4.0, an industrial philosophy or new industrial revolution stemming from Germany. It describes the current trend for automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and the move towards smart factories. Metrology is a topic frequently missed by research funding programmes, despite its economic impact which has generated world-wide over 200 3D systems manufacturers, over 200 3D metrology service companies and a range of end users including Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, NASA, Ford, Audi, BMW, VW, GE, KUKA and CERN.The building of an online network of industry and academic partners would greatly enhance the capacity for these opportunities to be more readily exploited through research funding. Cooperative knowledge transfer, e.g. via a public website, would be beneficial to all parties by increasing the capacity for applying and developing 3D metrology at these institutions. By promoting their facilities and focusing their collective expertise to an interested public, the groups can increase the scope for identifying problems specific to 3D metrology. This would add impact to their individual and collective research, which in turn encourages further links with commercial and industry partners.A 10-day exploratory visit to Brazil is proposed for September 2017, hosted by the new ISI SIM and LGI institutes where areas of cooperation and information exchange would be evaluated. Provisionally the visit will overlap with the National Mobility Engineering Congress, Joinville, 19 - 22 Sept. The Congress attracts engineering students from across Brazil. The location is also the LGI base. UCL and the host institutes would therefore use this opportunity to present 3D metrology to a wide academic audience in Brazil. The host institutes would also help facilitate discussions with Brazilian industries in order to identify areas where metrology could be applied and developed. ISI SIM and LGI have connections to shipbuilding, aerospace, automotive and moulding industries and visits are proposed to Embraer, São Paulo and a NAVSHIP shipyard near Joinville. It is also proposed to hold a workshop at São Leopoldo, the ISI SIM base, to present 3D metrology to local Brazilian industry. The teams at ISI SIM and LGI are well placed to support these workshops and presentations with systems for demonstration and relevant project work.