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- Title
Uncertainty Evaluation for Measurements of Pitch Deviation and Out-of-Flatness of Planar Scale Gratings by a Fizeau Interferometer in Littrow Configuration.
- Authors
Xiong, Xin; Shimizu, Yuki; Chen, Xiuguo; Matsukuma, Hiraku; Gao, Wei
- Abstract
Form errors of a planar scale grating, such as pitch deviations and out-of-flatness, are major contributors to the final measurement uncertainty of an interferential scanning-type planar encoder. Following the previous work, in which a method has been proposed to evaluate both the out-of-flatness and the pitch deviations of a planar scale grating by a Fizeau interferometer in Littrow configuration, uncertainty analysis on this method is performed in this paper. Theoretical equations are derived to make quantitative uncertainty analysis while taking possible error factors into account. To overcome the drawbacks of a traditional uncertainty matrix approach, a new procedure is proposed to evaluate the uncertainty in the PV (peak-to-valley) deviation of a surface form, so as to assure the quality of measurement. Experiments are finally conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of proposed uncertainty evaluation method.
- Subjects
INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENT uncertainty (Statistics); UNCERTAINTY
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2018, Vol 8, Issue 12, p2539
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app8122539