A new non-contact coordinate measuring machine equipped with light-duty optical probe based on fringe projection profilometry

In the modern industrial manufacturing, how to effectively obtain the three-dimensional data of the parts profile is the key component for precision test and subsequent analysis. A light-duty design scheme for optical vision probe, which can be installed with a PH10T motorized probe head in CMM, is discussed in this paper. The optical probe can overcome several defects of the traditional measurement mode of CMM, such as poor efficiency and sparse point cloud. Therefore, the problem of 3D measurement and quality analysis for complicated parts can be solved. To splice data in different fields of view, a registration method using a new designed artifact is proposed. Experiments demonstrated the feasibility of the designed non-contact CMM integrated with optical 3D probe for precise 3D shape measurement. The measurement uncertainty of the optical probe can reach 0.012mm within the measuring volume width 200mm and the measurement uncertainty of the global 3D measurement is less than 0.03mm in 1500mm.