Theoretical and Experimental Estimation of Uncertainty of Measurement during Calibration of CMM
Keywords:
CMM, Calibration, Uncertainty, Length Measurement, Probability Distribution.Abstract
In the present paper we briefly discuss the universal (theoretical) and experimental methods of estimation of
uncertainty of measurement. As an application we have taken the case of manual 3D co-ordinate measuring
machine of with 1 m least count and this machine has been calibrated with the help of a Step Gauge. The study
concludes that both universal and experimental methods give fairly identical results and hence universal method
can be used easily for the uncertainty calculation of such machines. This is first of its kind of work where
theoretically estimated uncertainty value has been compared w.r.t. the practically observed value.
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