Laser tracker TSPI uncertainty quantification via centrifuge trajectory

Edward Romero; Thomas Paez; Timothy Brown; Timothy Miller

doi:10.1117/12.824385

12 August 2009 Laser tracker TSPI uncertainty quantification via centrifuge trajectory

Edward Romero, Thomas Paez, Timothy Brown, Timothy Miller

Proceedings Volume 7463, Atmospheric Optics: Models, Measurements, and Target-in-the-Loop Propagation III; 74630H (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.824385
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Sandia National Laboratories currently utilizes two laser tracking systems to provide time-space-position-information (TSPI) and high speed digital imaging of test units under flight. These laser trackers have been in operation for decades under the premise of theoretical accuracies based on system design and operator estimates. Advances in optical imaging and atmospheric tracking technology have enabled opportunities to provide more precise six degree of freedom measurements from these trackers. Applying these technologies to the laser trackers requires quantified understanding of their current errors and uncertainty. It was well understood that an assortment of variables contributed to laser tracker uncertainty but the magnitude of these contributions was not quantified and documented. A series of experiments was performed at Sandia National Laboratories large centrifuge complex to quantify TSPI uncertainties of Sandia National Laboratories laser tracker III. The centrifuge was used to provide repeatable and economical test unit trajectories of a test-unit to use for TSPI comparison and uncertainty analysis. On a centrifuge, testunits undergo a known trajectory continuously with a known angular velocity. Each revolution may represent an independent test, which may be repeated many times over for magnitudes of data practical for statistical analysis. Previously these tests were performed at Sandia's rocket sled track facility but were found to be costly with challenges in the measurement ground truth TSPI. The centrifuge along with on-board measurement equipment was used to provide known ground truth position of test units. This paper discusses the experimental design and techniques used to arrive at measures of laser tracker error and uncertainty.

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Edward Romero, Thomas Paez, Timothy Brown, and Timothy Miller "Laser tracker TSPI uncertainty quantification via centrifuge trajectory", Proc. SPIE 7463, Atmospheric Optics: Models, Measurements, and Target-in-the-Loop Propagation III, 74630H (12 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.824385

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