PaMIr capital equipment

距离是人类用来描述世界的最基本的属性之一，人们已经学会了以各种惊人的方式测量距离，从你的前臂长度到光子、甚至电子或原子的波长。在现代工业社会，长度测量深深地嵌入到所有的生产过程中，对距离、分辨率、速度和绝对精度的要求不断增长。在诸如数控磨床或车床等现代生产机器中，这些测量不仅必须以微米级的分辨率进行，而且在这些机器中，有几十个距离必须被快速且同步地测量，同时它们也以每秒几米的速度变化。牛津大学开发了一种名为频率扫描干涉测量(FSI)的技术，能够以高精度(优于每米0.5微米)和高时间分辨率测量绝对距离，每秒270万次测量。这项技术正在与一家工业合作伙伴(标准具股份公司)成功商业化，并在工业和科学中找到了许多应用。然而，目前商业上可用的FSI状态还不能以连续的形式测量快速运动的目标。牛津大学Reichold教授团队最近开发了一种快速测量快速运动目标距离的新方法，称为相位调制干涉法(PAMIR)。PAMIR方法向后兼容用于FSI测量的硬件，并将保持FSI的独特特性，如多距离同时测量和每个测量通道的低成本。这种兼容性允许测量从FSI测量的绝对距离开始，然后可以使用Pamir方法高速跟踪。Pamir项目旨在与标准具和VadaTech合作，将基本Pamir原理发展到可以在商业仪器中实施的状态。我们已经与VadaTech和标准具一起开发了第一个用于FSI的光学读出系统。我们将在这一发展的基础上，进一步改进其性能，以满足帕米尔高原的要求。最终，我们希望将PAMIR技术授权给标准具股份公司，使该技术可用于工业和科学应用，并将我们开发给VadaTech的固件授权给VadaTech，以允许将其DAQ系统用作多通道数字锁定放大器或PLL和PID控制器。这项特殊的赠款申请寻求资金，用于购买资本设备(参考仪器和额外的DAQ元件)，这将有助于加速Pamir技术的开发和提高其性能。最初的IPS融资无法支持此类设备的成本。一台成功的PAMIR仪器将在以下工业领域得到应用--在其产品中采用FSI技术的机床和计量仪器制造商。-将帕米尔技术整合到生产工厂的计量服务提供商。-航空航天和能源制造商可以降低制造成本，提高产品性能。它们还可以减少返工和提高公差。-提高飞机机翼的制造精度可以减少重量(减少飞溅和垫片)和空气动力阻力(自然层流)，从而降低燃料消耗。-在一家工厂拥有多台数控机床或机器人的制造商可以使用帕米尔增强型绝对多线系统作为多台数控机床的校准仪器。学术受益者在单独的一节中指出。

Distances are one of the most fundamental properties that humanity uses to describe the world and has learned to measure in an amazing variety of ways using everything from the length of your forearm to the wavelengths of photons or even electrons or atoms.In modern industrial societies length measurements are deeply embedded into all production processes and the requirements for range, resolution, speed and absolute accuracy are constantly growing. In modern production machines such as CNC mills or lathes these measurements have to be performed not only with micrometer resolution but in these machines there are dozens of distances that have to be measured rapidly and simultaneous while they are also changing at high speeds of meters per second. The University of Oxford has developed a technology called Frequency Scanning Interferometry (FSI) capable of measuring absolute distances with high accuracy (better than half a micrometer per meter) and high time resolution of 2.7 million measurements per second. This technology is being successfully commercialised with an industrial partner (Etalon AG) and has found many applications in industry and science. The current commercially available state of FSI is however not yet capable of measuring fast moving targets in a continuous form. The group of Prof Reichold at the University of Oxford has recently developed a novel method for rapid distance measurements of fast moving targets referred to as Phase Modulation Interferometry (PaMIr)The PaMIr method is backward compatible with the hardware used for FSI measurements and will maintain the unique features of FSI such as simultaneous measurements of many distances and a low cost per measurement channel. This compatibility allows a measurement to start at an absolute distance measured with FSI, which can then be tracked at high speed with the PaMIr method.The PaMIr project aims to develop the basic PaMIr principles to a state ready for implementation in a commercial instrument in a collaboration with Etalon and VadaTech. Together with VadaTech and Etalon we have already developed a first optical readout system for FSI. We will build on this development and further improve its performance to meet the PaMIr requirements. Ultimately we expect to license the PaMIr technology to Etalon AG to make the technique commercially available for industrial and scientific application alike and to license the firmware we develop to VadaTech to allow the use of their DAQ systems as multi-channel digital lock-in amplifiers or PLL and PID controllers.This particular grant application seeks funding to purchase capital equipment (reference instruments and additional DAQ element) that will help to accelerate the development and improve the performance of the PaMIr technique. The original IPS funding round could not support the cost of such equipment. A successful PaMIr instrument would find industrial applications as follows - Manufacturers of machine tools and metrology instruments deploying FSI technology in their products. - Metrology service providers integrating PaMIr technology into production factories.- Aerospace and energy manufacturers can reduce manufacturing costs and improve product performance. They can also reduce re-work and improve tolerances.- Improved manufacturing accuracy in airplane wings leads to reduced weight (less fettling and shims) and aerodynamic drag (natural laminar flow) and thus reduced fuel consumption. - Manufacturers with multiple CNC machines or robots in one factory can use PaMIr enhanced Absolute Multiline systems as calibration instruments for many CNC machines. Academic beneficiaries are pointed out in a separate section.