During 22nd-24th November 2016 the company Qualisys from Sweden installed the motion capture system in the Motion-Lab. The picture below shows Martin Holmberg from Qualisys setting up the cameras. In total, 17 cameras were installed that provide the full coverage …
Motion-Lab participated on November 17, 2016 in the workshop organized by Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, a leading metrology and manufacturing solution specialist. The workshop was hosted by SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing at Raufoss Industripark, and featured the Leica Absolute Tracker AT960. It …
Status of the vessel-to-vessel compensation project at UiA as of November 2016 can be seen at https://youtu.be/7HC1nkir798. The work is linked to the research centre SFI Offshore Mechatronics, work-package 2.
Witold Pawlus started as the new technical lab manager of the Motion-Lab on November 9, 2016. Witold completed his PhD degree at UiA within the Industrial-PhD scheme of the Norwegian Research Council together with the company MHWirth AS in Kristiansand. …
Magnus Berthelsen Kjelland defended his PhD on November 4, 2016. Magnus was the first PhD candidate at UiA who made significant use of the Motion-Lab in his research. More information is available in the following link (in Norwegian). Magnus Berthelsen …
The US-based company Inertial Labs visited the Motion-Lab on June 6-7, 2016 for MRU testing. See this page for more information about their MRUs.
Sondre Sanden Tørdal (UiA) and Per Ove Løvsland (Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus) testing relative motion accuracy using two Kongsberg MRUs, two Stewart platforms, one Comau robot and the FARO laser tracker mounted on top of the smallest Stewart platform. …
A new Motion Reference Unit (MRU) has arrived for use in the Motion-Lab. The sensor package consists of a main unit and two satellites. These will be placed in the three corners of the large Stewart platform to estimate …
See this video https://youtu.be/WDpFD1c37T4.
A class of 20 students and the teacher from Kristiansand Katedralskole Gimle (KKG) visited the Motion-Lab and SFI Offshore Mechatronics for the third time. The students completed a PC-based laboratory exercise using a UR5 robot. In addition, PhD candidate Sondre …