REVEAL

REVEAL是e2 v，RSK，Gooch Housego（G&H）和伯明翰大学（UoB）之间的合作，旨在开发和试验第一个商业原型QT重力梯度仪传感器。它建立在成功的InnovateUK SIGMA/SIGMA+和FreezeRay/FreezeRay 2项目的基础上。SIGMA/SIGMA+已经开发了工具（前向模型，提高对噪声源的了解），以便对其客户感兴趣的目标的可探测性进行更知情的评估。FreezeRay项目已经使e2 v和Gooch & Housego能够基于UoB的知识和专业知识开发量子重力仪的子系统。FreezeRay项目的具体发展使该联盟能够开发量子传感器所需的核心系统。REVEAL将首次根据在UoB获得的知识和通过IUK项目建造工业重力梯度仪原型，并将其交给一家专业的地球物理测量公司。这是这些工具走向市场的下一个合乎逻辑的步骤。除了开放进入QT研究市场，这主要为在英国创建商业QT供应链提供了方向-旨在提高行业的吸收，并在演示的同时，创造市场增长和财富创造。为了实现首个商业QT重力梯度仪原型的目标，REVEAL将专注于以下关键步骤：1）开发加固型激光器和控制系统，2）创建包括真空系统的传感器平台，3）将系统集成到适用于土木工程应用的移动的可运输单元中，4）从UoB到e2 v和G&H的传感器要求知识转移，以及5）现场试验和勘测优化，以反馈到传感器开发要求和现有地球物理系统的基准。将从两个方面加速QT重力仪器的商业化：1）通过提供传感器配置和性能参数，确保传感器开发和系统工程工作生产出适合用途的仪器，2）通过与客户群的接触、出色的传播活动来增加传感器的市场，和原型设备能力的实际现场演示，以及3）演示商业系统在灵敏度、弹性、尺寸、重量和成本方面可以实现的目标。

REVEAL is a collaboration between e2v, RSK, Gooch Housego (G&H) and the University of Birmingham (UoB) to develop and trial the first commercial prototype QT gravity gradiometer sensor. It builds on the successful InnovateUK SIGMA/SIGMA+ & FreezeRay/FreezeRay2 projects. SIGMA/SIGMA+ have already developed tools (forward models, improved understanding of noise sources) to provide a more informed assessment of the detectability of targets of interest to their clients. The FreezeRay projects have already enabled e2v and Gooch & Housego to develop sub-systems for quantum gravimeters based on UoB knowledge and expertise. The specific developments within the FreezeRay projects have enabled the consortium to develop the core systems required for a quantum sensor. REVEAL will, for the first time, build an industrial gravity gradiometer prototype based on the knowledge gained at the UoB and through IUK projects and place it in the hands of an expert geophysical surveying company. This is the next logical step for the route to market of these instruments. As well as opening access to the QT research market, this primarily provides a direction towards the creation of a commercial QT supply chain in the UK - aiming to enhance the uptake by industry, and alongside demonstrations, create market growth and wealth creation.To achieve the aim of a first commercial QT gravity gradiometer prototype, REVEAL will focus on the following key steps: 1) Development of ruggedized laser and control systems, 2) Creation of a sensor platform including a vacuum system, 3) System integration into a mobile, transportable unit suitable for civil engineering applications, 4) Knowledge transfer from UoB to e2v and G&H for the sensor requirements and 5) Field trials and survey optimisation to feed back into the sensor development requirements and benchmark against existing geophysical systems.REVEAL will accelerate the commercialisation of QT gravity instruments in two ways: 1) ensuring that the sensor development and system engineering efforts produces instruments that are fit for purpose by providing sensor configuration and performance parameters, 2) increasing the marketplace for the sensors by engagement with the client base, excellent dissemination activities, and practical field demonstrations of prototype equipment capability and 3) demonstrating what can be achievable from a commercial system with respect to sensitivity, resilience, size, weight and cost.