Nanopositioning and Nanomeasuring Machines (NPM-Machines) are pieces of technological equipment that allow positioning, touching and measuring of centimeter-sized objects with nanometer precision. The specification of measurement results requires the expression of the uncertainty in measurement. The present paper describes a new modular concept for the expression of uncertainty budgets of NPM-Machines based on a vectorial metrological model.
Print ISSN: 0171-8096
Volume: 73, 09/2006
Pages: 465 - 471