Three-degree-of-freedom autocollimator with large angle-measurement range
Renpu Li, Yan Zhen, Ke Di, Wei Wang, M. Nikitin, Minh Hòa Tống, Yongqi Zhang, Xinhai Zou, Igor A. Konyakhin
Abstract
Abstract Autocollimators (ACs) are primarily used for two-dimension measurement with small angle. A three-dimensional AC (3D-AC) with a large measurement range and capable of 3D angle measurement is proposed based on a modified cube corner reflector (MCCR). The MCCR structure is designed by establishing the space coordinate vector relation model between AC and the reflectors with the rotation relation of Euler space. A 3D-AC angle measurement equation for MCCR dimension angle recognition is established. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed 3D-AC model can be used for 3D measurement. The measurement range of 3D-AC is 10°, and the uncertainty values for the one-dimensional and combined angle measurements are (57.10″, 55.25″, 40.43″) and (394.16″, 455.36″, 319.57″), respectively.