Improvement of Simulation Method in Validation of Software of the Coordinate Measuring Systems

• Main Author: Nieciąg Halina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2015-10-01
• Series: Measurement Science Review
• Subjects: validation; coordinate measuring technique; monte carlo simulation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/msr-2015-0031

Software is used in order to accomplish various tasks at each stage of the functioning of modern measuring systems. Before metrological confirmation of measuring equipment, the system has to be validated. This paper discusses the method for conducting validation studies of a fragment of software to calculate the values of measurands. Due to the number and nature of the variables affecting the coordinate measurement results and the complex character and multi-dimensionality of measurands, the study used the Monte Carlo method of numerical simulation. The article presents an attempt of possible improvement of results obtained by classic Monte Carlo tools. The algorithm LHS (Latin Hypercube Sampling) was implemented as alternative to the simple sampling schema of classic algorithm.