Measurement device for non-contact detection of oscillations of an object

• US 7,079,258 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2003
• Issued: 07/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kason Industries Incorporated, Polytec GMBH (Polytec GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Polytec GMBH (Polytec GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Armbruster, Bernd, Selbach, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Toatley, Jr., Gregory J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Connolly, Patrick
• Application Number:
  US10/736,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20040125378A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 356/502, 356/511, 356/489, 356/495
• US Class Current: 356/502
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/12 by monitoring vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 7/025 Measuring arrangements

Abstract

A measurement device for oscillation measurement, as well as a corresponding method, is proposed, wherein the oscillation measurement is performed by at least one laser interferometer (2, 3), whose measurement beam is directed onto various measurement points (5) of the object (1) for generating a scanning movement, and the obtained oscillation data is correlated with the position data of the respective measurement point (5) and evaluated or displayed. In particular, for three-dimensional measurements, the invention reduces the measurement complexity because the scanning device is a robot arm, which moves a measurement head of the laser interferometer to the desired measurement points on the object.

Claims

1. A measurement device for non-contact detection of oscillations of an object, comprising at least one laser interferometer (2, 3), a scanning device (6, 7, 11), which directs a measurement beam (4) of the at least one laser interferometer (2, 3) onto various measurement points (5) of the object (1) for generating a scanning movement, a data recording device (9), which interacts with the laser interferometer (2, 3) and with the scanning device (6, 7, 11) in order to correlate oscillation data measured by the at least one laser interferometer (2, 3) with position data of the respective measurement point (5) obtained from the scanning device (11), and an evaluation or display device (10) for position-matched evaluation or display of the oscillation data correlated with the position data, wherein the scanning device comprises a program-controlled, moving support (6), on which at least one measurement head (3) of the at least one laser interferometer is mounted and with which the at least one measurement head (3) can be moved to the various measurement points (5), wherein the scanning device (6, 11) is programmed so that the at least one measurement head (3) of the laser interferometer moves to the individual measurement points (5) at a preselected distance to the object (1).

2. A measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one laser interferometer is a laser-Doppler vibrometer.

3. A measurement device according to claim 1, wherein for each of the measurement points (5), the at least one laser interferometer generates three measurement beams (4a, 4b, 4c) that are incident on the object (1) from different angles.

4. A measurement device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one laser interferometer comprises three laser-Doppler vibrometers.

5. A measurement device according to claim 3, wherein a beam aperture angle between the three measurement beams (4a, 4b, 4c) is greater than 12°

, preferably greater than 20°

.

6. A measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the position data of the measurement points (5) present in the scanning device (11) can be represented in a foreground of a video image of the object (1) on the display device (10).

7. A measurement device according to claim 6, wherein the display device (10) and the scanning device (6, 7, 11) interact such that the position data of the measurement points (5) present in the scanning device (11) can be freely selected with reference to the video image of the object (1).

8. A measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the support (6) is a support arm of an industrial robot (7).

9. A measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the support (6) is formed from positioning elements of a gantry robot.

10. A method for non-contact detection of oscillations of an object, comprising the steps of:

directing at least one measurement beam of at least one laser interferometer onto various measurement points on the object;

detecting oscillation data obtained from the at least one laser interferometer and correlating the oscillation data with position data of the measurement points;

displaying and/or evaluating the oscillation data correlated with the position data,

wherein at least one measurement head of one the at least one laser interferometer is mounted on a program-controlled, moving support, and moving the at least one measurement head to the measurement points using the moving support so that the at least one measurement head is moved to the individual measurement points at a preselected distance to the object.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein a video image of the object is generated and the measurement points are selected with reference to the video image.