Hello Elena

Thanks for taking an interest in the LUMINAR project. The project has now finished although we have an application in progress for a follow-on project.

The project leader on LUMINAR, and for the new application, is Andrew Lewis at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. We are unable to add further participants to the new application but, of course, there are always future opportunities for collaborative work.

Note that LUMINAR is concerned with large volume metrology, e.g. 3D metrology for aerospace manufacture, shipbuilding, etc. I'm not sure to what extent your software platform could be applied here but I can certainly provide you with background material and references if you want to evaluate our field as an application area for the platform.

If you wish to contact me directly you can use [email protected].

Regards

Stephen Kyle

Stephen,

Thanks for responding on the project's behalf. The LUMINAR project is ended, and we are in the final bidding stages for a follow-on project called LaVA - Large Volume Applications - here we take some of the fundamental research from LUMINAR (and some new ideas) to generate some Demonstrators for Metrology Systerms operating in factory environments. These will involve aerospace, automotive manufacture, with cooperation between several systems such as photogrammetry, videogrammetry, laser trackers, Frequency Scanning Interferometry, spectroscopic refractive index measurement. These will be a mixture of more mature technologies and some tat are really early concepts. At the moment I suspect we are at too early a stage of technology level to apply formal quality system approaches, but that will be a requirement of the eventual end users.

Regards,

Andrew Lewis