Imaging coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are widely used because of their ability to perform non-contact and high-precision coordinate measurement. Imaging CMMs measures not only the coordinate values but also forms of complex structures. However, the accuracy evaluation of the complex form measurement is not sufficient. ISO10360-7[1] defines the method for evaluating the accuracy of imaging CMMs. In this ISO, the length measurement errors are to be evaluated using a calibrated line scale, and the probing errors are to be evaluated using a calibrated roundness standard. The evaluation of probing errors is important for the accuracy evaluation of complex form measurement. Therefore, we started development of a calibration system for the photomask test circles, which serves as reference roundness standards for imaging CMMs. We constructed a rotary-table-based roundness measuring system. This system consists of an optical microscope and a high-precision rotary table, which equipped with a self-calibrating rotary encoder (SelfA) developed at NMIJ, instead of orthogonal linear stage, to eliminate the influence of geometric errors. To evaluate the validity of the developed method, the roundness of a circular mask with a nominal diameter of 0.22 mm was measured using a multistep method. As a result, a measurement result of 39 nm was obtained with respect to a reference value of 0.02 μm.
This paper describes the automatic calibration system for an angle encode which is installed at the AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology). The system uses the Equal-Division-Averaged (EDA) method that is one kind of the self-checking method. This system has great performance of the calibration with small uncertainty. In this paper we try to explain the factor of uncertainty of this system. The dominant uncertainty factor is the eccentricity of shaft between the system and an external rotary encoder. The influence from other factors is very small about 0.01" or less.
This paper describes the automatic calibration system for angle encoders which is installed at the AIST. The system uses the Equal-Division-Averaged (EDA) method that is one kind of the self-checking method. Both of the reference standard and the object angle encoders are calibrated at the same time against all encoders graduations within only one hour. The resolution and an uncertainty are 0.001 inch and approximately +/- 0.05 inch, respectively. This equal- division-averaged method is hoped to become the national standard method for the calibration of angle encoders.
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