According to some aspects of the invention, auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein. According to some aspects of the invention, methods for operating auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein.

According to some aspects of the invention, auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein. According to some aspects of the invention, methods for operating auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein.

A method and apparatus for aligning a number of measurement systems to a reference coordinate system. In one illustrative example, an apparatus may comprise a number of robotic vehicles and a number of monuments associated with the number of robotic vehicles. The number of robotic vehicles may be configured to move into an environment.

A machine tool is provided which can execute various works while suppressing increase in cost or size. The machine tool includes a tool spindle device which is a movable member which can move with respect to a mounting surface of the machine tool, and one or more serial-manipulator-type robots attached on the tool spindle device, which can move with the tool spindle device, and which have two or more degrees of freedom, and the robot includes two or more end effectors provided at positions different from each other with one or more joints therebetween.

A feature-guided scanning trajectory optimization method for a 3D measurement robot, including: building a 3D digital model of an aircraft surface; obtaining a size of the 3D digital model; extracting features to be measured; classifying the features to be measured; calculating a geometric parameter of each type of features to be measured; generating an initial scanning trajectory of each type of features to be measured; building a constraint model of the 3D measurement robot; optimizing the initial scanning trajectory into a local optimal scanning trajectory; and planning a global optimal scanning trajectory of each type of features to be measured on the aircraft surface by using a modified ant colony optimization algorithm.

According to some aspects of the invention, auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein. According to some aspects of the invention, methods for operating auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein.

A coordinate measuring machine based on a delta robot structure comprising a base plate, arms, a movable platform with a probe, and a control unit for controlling the movement of the movable platform. The base plate is configured to accommodate a first workpiece and the probe is arranged the movable platform so as to utilize the free inside space of the delta robot structure between the arms as measuring volume.

According to some aspects of the invention, auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein. According to some aspects of the invention, methods for operating auxiliary axis measurement systems for determining three-dimensional coordinates of an object are provided as shown and described herein.

A three dimensional measurement system has a measurement unit that images the measuring object and that has a light projecting device projecting projected light onto the measuring object and a light receiving device receiving the reflected light. The system has a specular reflection member that forms a mounting surface for mounting the measuring object and reflects projected light at a specific angle. The system has a data acquisition unit that acquires imaging data and a coordinate calculation unit that calculates three dimensional coordinates for the part of the imaging data whose brightness is higher than the lower limit brightness and does not calculate three dimensional coordinates for the part whose brightness is lower than the lower limit brightness. The light receiving device is arranged at a position where the brightness of the part where the specular reflection member is imaged is lower than the lower limit brightness.

A measurement device having a camera captures images of an object at three or more different poses. A processor determines 3D coordinates of an edge point of the object based at least in part on the captured 2D images and pose data provided by the measurement device.