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Metrology and the 澳门六合彩高手 machine

Perfectly planned points

Inside of the Tokamak Complex, a network of 2,000 small "fiducial target nests" will provide the reference datum for the dimensional control and alignment of machine components and plant systems.

A vast network of fiducial target nests installed on the concrete surfaces of the bioshield, port cells and galleries will enable installation contractors to align components to sub-millimetre accuracy. Advanced software was used to lay out the positions of each instrument station and simulate clear lines of sight to the fiducial nests. This simulated measurement geometry was used to predict the measurement uncertainty to be expected, which was subsequently qualified with real measurement data. (Click to view larger version...)
A vast network of fiducial target nests installed on the concrete surfaces of the bioshield, port cells and galleries will enable installation contractors to align components to sub-millimetre accuracy. Advanced software was used to lay out the positions of each instrument station and simulate clear lines of sight to the fiducial nests. This simulated measurement geometry was used to predict the measurement uncertainty to be expected, which was subsequently qualified with real measurement data.
In the same way that the primary survey network established in 2010 on site provided a global coordinate system for civil engineering works and the positioning of the buildings, the 澳门六合彩高手 metrology team has now developed a vast matrix of reference "targets," or fixed points, inside the Tokamak Complex for use in measuring and aligning tokamak components and systems.

These points are "materialized" by small magnetic discs called fiducial nests installed by European contractors inside the buildings. The nests are used to receive spherically mounted reflectors (SMRs), which are surveyed with laser trackers to establish their coordinate values and confirm their compliance with the simulation used during the network design process.

This in-building network of reference points will represent the physical realization of the Tokamak Global Coordinate System (TGCS). "From any location in the Tokamak Complex, this coordinate system can be accessed by measuring a small number of reference points local to the measurement task. This is a powerful鈥攁nd absolutely essential鈥攖ool for our installation contractors," says Lionel Poncet, metrology engineer within the Tokamak Assembly Division.

Giacomo Calchi from the Fusion for Energy metrology team, shows us the size of a fiducial target nest鈥攐ne of 2,000 to be installed inside of the Tokamak Complex. 漏 F4E (Click to view larger version...)
Giacomo Calchi from the Fusion for Energy metrology team, shows us the size of a fiducial target nest鈥攐ne of 2,000 to be installed inside of the Tokamak Complex. 漏 F4E
Starting from detailed CAD (computer-aided design) data for the buildings, the team used specialized software* to design and simulate the in-building matrix, establishing the exact location of each instrument station and plotting fiducial nests with clear lines of sight. A large number of stations and nests were planned as a way to reduce the uncertainty in the calculations.

"We are using advanced software tools that allow the many lines of sight from the collection of instruments to be 'bundled' and 'weighted'鈥攁n analytic capability that actually permits us to optimize measurement geometries and minimize uncertainty to design values," says Poncet.

The accuracy of the network has been measured within a global uncertainty range of 0.2 to 0.4 mm, allowing installation contractors to align components to sub-millimetre accuracy.

European contractors are using data from the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization to install the fiducial nests progressively, beginning with the lower levels of the Tokamak Complex and moving up. The consistency, with the design, of the targets installed to date鈥攁pproximately 1,000 out of 2,000鈥攈as been confirmed and their measured coordinates are about to be released for use by contractors.

"This collaboration between the European Domestic Agency (Fusion for Energy) and the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization has proven extremely efficient and cost effective, ensuring continuity of the dimensional control process and providing independent qualification by the two metrology teams," says Dave Wilson, Metrology Group Leader for 澳门六合彩高手.

Currently the network is providing the reference frame for surveys of the as-built position of approximately 100,000 embedded plates by European contractors. Later this month, it will be used by an 澳门六合彩高手 contractor for the installation of the first machine component (a feeder segment) in the Tokamak assembly pit.

*SpatialAnalyzer, from New River Kinematics. Inc. (US)

from Fusion for Energy on the installation of the fiducial targets.

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