Abstract: A machine tool for processing a workpiece having a temperature that deviates from a pre-defined processing temperature, the machine tool comprising a base to position the workpiece on, at least one processing means for processing the workpiece, one or more actuators for moving the processing means relative to the base, a control unit for controlling the actuators, the control unit comprising a data storage for storing nominal data providing nominal dimensions of the workpiece at the pre-defined processing temperature, and at least one temperature sensor that is configured to determine one or more actual temperature values of the workpiece, wherein the at least one temperature sensor is configured to generate temperature data based on the determined actual temperature values and to provide the temperature data to the control unit.

Abstract: A coordinate measuring system for determining 3D coordinates of an object, comprising a coordinate measuring device comprising an arrangement of sensors configured to generate measurement data from which 3D coordinates of measurement points on the object are derivable, and a computing device configured to determine, based on the measurement data, 3D coordinates of the measurement points, and for storing nominal data of the object in a data storage, the nominal data comprising nominal dimension data of the object for a pre-defined temperature, wherein the nominal data comprises one or more expansion coefficients of the object, the coordinate measuring system comprises at least one temperature sensor that is configured to determine actual temperature values of the object, the at least one temperature sensor is configured to generate temperature data; and the computing device is configured to determine tempered coordinates of the object.

Abstract: A method for automatically adapting an adaptable process parameter of a tooling machine, the tooling machine being part of a first or second manufacturing process for physically processing input work pieces into output work pieces. According to the method, at least one geometric feature of an output work piece is measured by a coordinate measuring machine, the geometric feature being a direct or indirect result of the processing with the tool. The measurement result is together with nominal measurement data of the geometric feature fed into a deterministic digital simulation of at least a part of the manufacturing process with a digital model such as a digital twin of the tooling machine and modelled process parameters, therein the adaptable process parameter of the tooling machine, simulating at least a deterministic behavior of the tooling machine relevant for an operation of its tool.

Abstract: A computer program product for numerically correcting an endpoint position of a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) implemented on a computing unit, receiving as input temporally resolved information from a set of sensors attached to or integrated into the CMM, and to a method for numerically correcting an endpoint position of a CMM, wherein errors between a targeted endpoint position and an actual endpoint position reached during a measurement process are numerically compensated through the use of the computer program product.

Abstract: A system for autonomously measuring workpieces, the system comprising one or more mobile robots, configured to move autonomously in a production environment with a plurality of production facilities that produce a plurality of different workpieces, each of the mobile robots comprising a spatial localization system for deriving a location of the mobile robot in the production environment, an autonomous navigation and propulsion unit configured for providing mobility of the mobile robot in the production environment, a wireless communication interface providing a data link to at least one other mobile robot and/or to computation and storage system, wherein a first mobile robot comprises a sensor setup comprising one or more sensors and is configured to use one or more of the sensors for identifying a workpiece to be measured and for determining an at least rough position of the workpiece that allows collecting or measuring the workpiece.

Abstract: Object analysis comprising measuring a frequency-dependent natural oscillation behavior of the object by dynamically-mechanically exciting the object in a defined frequency range (f) by means of generating a body oscillation by applying a test signal, and detecting a body oscillation generated in the object on account of the exciting.

Abstract: A computer program product and to a method for compensating thermal errors in a mechanical process, the mechanical process in particular provided by a mechanical device such as a coordinate measuring machine, a tooling machine or an articulated robot arm. Thermal errors arise due to thermal disturbances affecting the mechanical process, wherein thermal disturbances may arise from environmental influences affecting the mechanical process or from internally generated changing temperature distributions.

Abstract: A method comprising: setting up a stationary surveying device at a first known positioning in a surrounding area of the object; retrieving from a memory a set of object points of an object to be surveyed and/or to be marked; surveying and/or marking from a first positioning object points of the set of object points that can be surveyed and/or can be marked from the first positioning by means of the free beam, on the basis of a target direction; ascertaining missing object points of a set of object points; relocating the surveying device to a second, unknown positioning in the surrounding area of the object; automatically determining a second positioning by the surveying device on the basis of the knowledge of the first positioning, so that the second positioning is known; surveying and/or marking missing object points by means of the free beam from the second positioning.

Abstract: A calibrating method and system for an auxiliary measuring instrument which is designed to form together with a ground-based, stationary, surveying device having range-and-direction measuring functionality, a total station, a system for surveying and/or staking out object points. The auxiliary measuring instrument including a body which has a code for determining the orientation by using a pivoting movement of the body about a resting contact end of the auxiliary measuring instrument.

Abstract: An auxiliary measuring instrument, configured to form together with a ground-based surveying device having range-and-direction measuring functionality, a system for surveying or staking out object points, wherein the auxiliary measuring instrument including a handheld main body of a defined length, and a man-machine interface, wherein the auxiliary measuring instrument is designed in a pen-like form and size and is configured to aim at an object point to be surveyed or staked out in a one-handed manner with a first end of the auxiliary measuring instrument and wherein a body is attached at a second end of the auxiliary measuring instrument, wherein the body is designed for optical-image-based determination of the position of the auxiliary measuring instrument by the surveying device.

Abstract: A method of compensating errors in a coordinate measuring machine adapted for determination of at least one spatial coordinate of a measurement point on an object to be measured. The method comprises measuring a distance from the first reference element to the first structural component, wherein the measured distance indicates a displacement or a deformation of the first structural component, defining a dynamic model with a first set of state variables, the state variables being related to a set of physical properties of the reference module and representing an actual state of the reference module, deriving the actual state of the reference module by a calculation based on the dynamic model, and deducing compensation parameters based on the actual state.

Abstract: A computer program product for numerically correcting an endpoint position of a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) implemented on a computing unit, receiving as input temporally resolved information from a set of sensors attached to or integrated into the CMM, and to a method for numerically correcting an endpoint position of a CMM, wherein errors between a targeted endpoint position and an actual endpoint position reached during a measurement process are numerically compensated through the use of the computer program product.

Abstract: A computer program product and to a method for compensating thermal errors in a mechanical process, the mechanical process in particular provided by a mechanical device such as a coordinate measuring machine, a tooling machine or an articulated robot arm. Thermal errors arise due to thermal disturbances affecting the mechanical process, wherein thermal disturbances may arise from environmental influences affecting the mechanical process or from internally generated changing temperature distributions.

Abstract: Method for providing avoiding of excitations of oscillations of a measuring machine and/or for reducing or damping such oscillations by actively controlling a driving unit of the measuring machine or actively controlling an actuation of an additionally attached actuator. The method using information about an actual state of the measuring device, the actual state is derived based on a dynamic model and/or by use of a suitable sensor unit. A state controller, an actuator or a frequency-filtering element are used for counteracting or preventing oscillations.

Abstract: A machine state monitoring system for recurrently determining a change in static or dynamic properties of a geometry of a machine with positional encoders to derive a coordinate information of at least a first machine portion with respect to a second machine portion, which are movable with respect to one another. The monitoring system includes one calibration-monitoring-unit with an optical, at least two-dimensional measuring location sensing unit which is fixed to the first machine portion and configured to optically sense an at least two dimensional location information of an artifact which is provided at the second machine portion, and temporarily moved into a sensing range for determining the change in the static or dynamic properties of the geometry of the machine by a comparison of multiple of such sensings, the compensation parameters are then updated and is used to derive the coordinate information from the encoders.

Abstract: A system for providing state information for at least a part of a tool positioning machine embodied as manipulating machine or as coordinate measuring machine is provided. The system comprises the tool positioning machine defining a machine coordinate system and having a base and a machine structure. The structure comprises a tool head and structural components for linking the tool head to the base, at least one drive mechanism for providing movability of the machine structure relative to the base, a position determining system for deriving at least one coordinate of the machine structure in the machine coordinate system and a controlling unit adapted for controlling movement of the machine structure. The system comprises a calibration setup. A calibration component is mounted on the machine structure and defines a moveable reference point, another calibration component is arranged with defined spatial relation to the base and provides a nominal calibration position.

Abstract: A Self-monitoring manufacturing system adapted to produce at least one object. The system includes at least a first processing facility adapted to perform a respective first processing step with the object, and a production control unit, wherein the production data comprises nominal pre-processing object data. A production monitoring unit for checking a pre-processing object state of the object is arranged, such unit being adapted to obtain actual property data of the object in-line of the production in-advance of applying the first processing step, to generate deviation data by comparing the actual property data with the production data for the first processing step, and to provide the deviation data for performing the first production step with the first processing facility in deviation-adjusted manner.

Abstract: A hexapod CMM or hexapod-like CMM has a base structure and a movable structure connected to each other by at least three telescopically extendable legs via spherical joints. Each of the telescopically extendable legs comprises a linear first member and a linear second member having countersliding surfaces and are designed in such a way that allows a relative, linear movement of the first linear member and the second linear member. Further each of the telescopically extendable legs has an air cushioning mechanism, which comprises at least one air supply system connected to at least one source of compressed air and having at least one air escape. The air escape is arranged in such a way that compressed air escaping the air escape flows into a gap between the countersliding surfaces of the at least two linear members of the leg cushioning the two linear members against each other.

Abstract: Method for providing avoiding of excitations of oscillations of a measuring machine and/or for reducing or damping such oscillations by actively controlling a driving unit of the measuring machine or actively controlling an actuation of an additionally attached actuator. The method using information about an actual state of the measuring device, the actual state is derived based on a dynamic model and/or by use of a suitable sensor unit. A state controller, an actuator or a frequency-filtering element are used for counteracting or preventing oscillations.

Abstract: Method for providing avoiding of excitations of oscillations of a measuring machine and/or for reducing or damping such oscillations by actively controlling a driving unit of the measuring machine or actively controlling an actuation of an additionally attached actuator. The method using information about an actual state of the measuring device, the actual state is derived based on a dynamic model and/or by use of a suitable sensor unit. A state controller, an actuator or a frequency-filtering element are used for counteracting or preventing oscillations.