Workshop Date:		09:00 Wednesday 18 May 2016 - 14:00 Thursday 19 May 2016 (1½ days)
Workshop Location:		NPL - Main auditorium and Reception area

The workshop was held at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, TW11 0LW, UK. The main lecture theatre was the focus for the event, with foyer space used for a small exhibition and coffee breaks.

Format

The workshop featured a series of 30-minute presentations, which were a mixture of the results and outputs from the research of the project (from the eight research teams), plus selected speakers from the end user community (aerospace, high value manufacturing, large science facilities). The aim of the workshop was to demonstrate the outputs from the three years of research and to survey what are the remaining or new challenges facing users of large volume metrology. The intention was to build on the three-year project by developing a consortium to bid for further funding for a 2017 EMPIR call to tackle other issues.

The NPL Reception foyer was used for a small exhibition of some of the research outputs from the project and small stands from equipment suppliers and organisations. Coffee breaks were held in the foyer, giving attendees a chance to see the exhibits, and at the end of the event, there were optional laboratory tours of NPL facilities.

The workshop dinner and networking event was in a local restaurant on the evening of the first day.

Workshop Agenda

All the research team members presented their outputs: NPL (UK), CNAM (FR), GUM (PL), INRIM (IT), PTB (DE), UCL (UK), U. Bath (UK), KIT (DE); and there were five presentations by external stakeholders.

Agenda

DAY 1 – Wednesday 18 May 2016
09:00	Arrivals and coffee, etc.
09:30	Welcome and housekeeping	Safety, introduction, programme	Andrew Lewis NPL, UK
09:40	Scene setting	LUMINAR – what, why, when, who, how (capability report)	Andrew Lewis NPL, UK
10:00	Presentation 1	Keynote – Aerospace challenges	Mark Scully Aerospace Technology Institute, UK
10:30	Presentation 2	A new, refractive-index compensating absolute telemeter	Jean-Pierre Wallerand CNAM, FR
11:00	Presentation 3	Automated reference point determination at radio telescopes – a contribution to the Global Geodetic Observing System	Cornelia Eschelbach Frankfurt University, DE
11:30	Coffee break and exhibition
12:00	Presentation 4	An upgraded 50 m 1D facility with refractive index monitoring	Marius Wisniewski GUM, PL
12:30	Presentation 5	Large Volume Metrology challenges in particle accelerators	Hélène Mainaud Durand CERN, CH
13:00	Buffet Lunch	Buffet lunch in foyer (lab visits - TBC)
14:00	Presentation 6	Environmental mitigation in Large Volume Metrology with photogrammetry	Stuart Robson UCL, UK
14:30	Presentation 7	Large machine tool challenges	John Liverton Yamazaki Mazak UK Ltd
15:00	Presentation 8	PTB's Refractive index compensated absolute 3D laser meter	Karl Meiners-Hagen PTB, DE
15:30	Coffee break and exhibition
16:00	Presentation 9	InPlanT – a novel 3D coordinate measuring system for hostile environments	Alessandro Balsamo INRIM, IT
16:30	Presentation 10	Instrumentation company challenges	Michele Verdi Hexagon, IT
17:00	End of Day 1	Depart to hotels, or to restaurant
Assemble at 19:00	Dinner in Teddington	The Kings Head Brasserie, Teddington (walking distance from NPL and The Park & Travelodge hotels)

 

DAY 2 - Thursday 19 May 2016
08:40	Arrivals and coffee, etc.
08:55	Recap and housekeeping
09:00	Presentation 11	Frequency Scanning Interferometry – traceable 3D coordinate metrology	Ben Hughes NPL, UK
09:30	Presentation 12	Compensating for thermal and gravitational effects in structures and assemblies	Glen Mullineux/David Ross-Pinnock University of Bath, UK
10:00	Presentation 13	Dynamic issues of tracked targets and laser trackers	Thomas Ulrich KIT, DE
10:30	Coffee break and exhibition
11:00	Wrap up and discussion	Identification of new or remaining needs for research by, and in collaboration with, the National Metrology Institutes	All
12:00	Buffet lunch and NPL lab tours
14:00	END OF WORKSHOP