Professor SAMANTA PIANO's Outputs (7)

Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments (2025)
Journal Article
Sexton, D. G., Catalucci, S., Sharpe, A., Frazer, R., & Piano, S. (2025). Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments. Measurement Science and Technology, 36(6), Article 065014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/addd40

In recent years, the growth of optical techniques has introduced the possibility of allowing several alternative methods for non-contact gear measurement to be utilised. Optical methods can offer many advantages over tactile, such as the potential to... Read More about Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments.

Framework for uncertainty evaluation in optical surface topography measurement using a virtual instrument (2025)
Journal Article
Hooshmand, H., Pappas, A., Isa, M. A., Su, R., Haitjema, H., Piano, S., & Leach, R. (2025). Framework for uncertainty evaluation in optical surface topography measurement using a virtual instrument. Measurement, 253(Part D), Article 117604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2025.117604

Uncertainty evaluation in the measurement of surfaces with complex topography using optical techniques remains a challenge due to the complex interaction between light and the surfaces. The ISO 25178 part 600 specification standard simplifies uncerta... Read More about Framework for uncertainty evaluation in optical surface topography measurement using a virtual instrument.

Virtual Instrument for a Multi-illumination Dome System (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khanesar, M. A., Corcoran, H., MacDonald, L., Pawar, V., Robson, S., & Piano, S. (2025, April). Virtual Instrument for a Multi-illumination Dome System. Paper presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week (GSW 2025), Dubai, UAE

A virtual instrument has been developed to study a multi-illumination dome system on digital objects using a camera mounted on top of the dome. The reliability of the blender environment is investigated for simulating the functions of components of t... Read More about Virtual Instrument for a Multi-illumination Dome System.

Enhancing Positional Accuracy of Mechanically Modified Industrial Robots Using Laser Trackers (2025)
Journal Article
Khanesar, M. A., Karaca, A., Yan, M., Isa, M., Piano, S., & Branson, D. (2025). Enhancing Positional Accuracy of Mechanically Modified Industrial Robots Using Laser Trackers. Robotics, 14(4), Article 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14040042

Highly accurate positioning of industrial robots is crucial to performing industrial operations with high quality. This paper presents a mechanical modification to an industrial robot aiming at enhancing the system actuation resolution, thereby enhan... Read More about Enhancing Positional Accuracy of Mechanically Modified Industrial Robots Using Laser Trackers.

Event-based chessboard scanning profilometry (2024)
Journal Article
Bao, Q., Ren, D., He, F., Piano, S., Zhang, C., & Zhao, H. (2025). Event-based chessboard scanning profilometry. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 186, Article 108765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2024.108765

Event-based structured light profilometry shows great promise for three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement. However, existing methods face limitations in sampling efficiency. To address these limitations, an event-based chessboard scanning method for... Read More about Event-based chessboard scanning profilometry.

Manufacturing-error-based maintenance for high-precision machine tools (2017)
Journal Article
Shi, S., Lin, J., Xu, X., Feng, X., & Piano, S. (2018). Manufacturing-error-based maintenance for high-precision machine tools. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 95(1-4), 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-1070-y

Nowadays, the condition-based maintenance (CBM), in which repairs are triggered by the heuristic symptoms of the component faults, is finding increasing applications in the industrial fields. However, for the high-precision machine tools, the convent... Read More about Manufacturing-error-based maintenance for high-precision machine tools.

Verification of micro-scale photogrammetry for smooth three-dimensional object measurement (2017)
Journal Article
Sims-Waterhouse, D., Piano, S., & Leach, R. (2017). Verification of micro-scale photogrammetry for smooth three-dimensional object measurement. Measurement Science and Technology, 28(5), Article 055010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/aa6364

© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. By using sub-millimetre laser speckle pattern projection we show that photogrammetry systems are able to measure smooth three-dimensional objects with surface height deviations less than 1 μm. The projection of laser speckl... Read More about Verification of micro-scale photogrammetry for smooth three-dimensional object measurement.