IMEKO XIX World Congress Lisbon

Pedro Silva Girão
(Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações – Portugal)

As General Chair of the IMEKO XIX World Congress it is with an enormous pleasure that we welcome you to Lisbon, in September, 2009, where the IMEKO World Congress will be hosted.

The chosen Congress theme, Fundamental and Applied Metrology, is as broad as Metrology itself and intends to encompass all activities in the science of measurement domain, either more theoretical, mathematical and physical oriented or more practical, engineering oriented, but equally important for the development of Metrology. Thus, we trust and expect this IMEKO major event to attract contributions from worldwide experts, researchers and professionals, so as to enable the Program Committee to put up a comprehensive and high-level technical program that will make this an event not to be missed. Participants will have the opportunity to meet colleagues and experts and to discuss state-of-the art developments of measurements science, technology and standards.
IMEKO World Congresses have been one of the most important events in the Metrology domain and we are sure that you and all the people involved in the organization of the IMEKO XIX World Congress will continue to keep and even increase the standard of such events.

We also hope that you will find time during your stay with us to know Lisbon, the seven- hill capital of Portugal where the Congress takes place, its surroundings, and some Portuguese historical and touristic sites.
See you in Lisbon, in September, 2009.

• Introduction
• Basic principles
• Imaging THz-systems
• Applications
• Potentials for metrology in production
• Summary

Tilo Pfeifer, born 1939, received his Dipl.-Ing. degree 1965 his Dr.-Ing. degree 1968 and his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) 1972 form the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

1972 - 2004 he has been Professor and Director of WZL department “Metrology and Quality Management”, RWTH Aachen University and from 1980 - 2004 Director at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnologie IPT, Aachen. He is now Professor Emeritus at RWTH Aachen University. Still he teaches graduate courses in “Metrology for Microsystems” at several Universities (e.g. RWTH Aachen University; Tsinghua University, Beijing; State University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil). His research topics are Optical-/Laser-Metrology and Quality Management.

Prof. Pfeifer received several awards e.g. Distinguished Service Award of IMEKO 1985, degree of Honory Doctor form Universidade Federal Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1989 and from University of Zaragoza, Spain 2003, Degree of Honory Professor from Tsinghua University, Beijing 1995 and from Jilian University, Hangzhou, China 2006, Herward-Opitz Gold Medal of Honour from the VDI association, Germany 2004.

Since 1973 Prof. Pfeifer is member of the General Council of IMEKO.

He is Academician of the International Academy of Quality (IAQ) and Academician of the International Academy of Production Engeneering(CIRP), member of the executive board of Federation for Quality (FQS), Germany and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the German Association for Quality (DGQ).

Prof. Pfeifer has published some 500 scientific papers, generally on laser-/optical measurement, coordinate measuring technology and quality management, numerous conference proceedings, several books and patents.

1. Biofuels are really important, at least in the short term
2. Metrology is a key enabling technology for the worldwide use of biofuels.
3. Excellent opportunity for metrology and metrogists
4. Wide range of demands-from very technical details to cutting edge scientific problems.
5. Some relevant short term needs: CRM, PT, awareness, work with regulators and SDOs, biology metrology, origin determination, new methods (esp. in field),…
6. Exiting time!

João A. H. da Jornada has been the President of Inmetro (the Brazilian National Metrology Institute), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since December 2004, and Director for Scientific and Industrial Metrology from 2000 to 2004.

He is Full Professor of Physics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he received his PhD in Physics in 1979, with honour degree. He has been an active researcher in the fields of solid state physics, materials science, high-pressure physics and superhard materials, and has published some 90 papers in indexed international journals. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste, Italy).

He was awarded the Grand Cross of National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil, the Aeronautic Order of Merit, the Order of Rio Branco, and the Award for Outstanding Researcher in the field of Physics and Astronomy, FAPERGS, 1998.

John G. Webster received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 1953, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA in 1965 and 1967, respectively.

He is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In the field of medical instrumentation he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in bioinstrumentation and design. He does research on improving electrodes for ablating liver to cure cancer. He does research on safety of electromuscular incapacitating devices. He does research on a miniature hot flash recorder.

He is the editor of the most-used text in biomedical engineering: Medical instrumentation: application and design, Fourth Edition New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, and has developed 22 other books including the Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation, Second Edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006 and 200 research papers.

Dr. Webster is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Instrument Society of America, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Institute of Physics. He has been a member of the IEEE-EMBS Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award.

• Possible general topics
• Speakers / discussants
• Programme

• VIM3
• Way forward
• New concepts and vocabulary demanded by:
• Scientific basis
• Documentation of vocabularies
• Language
• Mechanism of development

• Calibration according to the VIM3
• What is a measurement result?
• The underlying logic...
• Two strategies

• “Closeness of agreement”
• Accuracy
• More on accuracy
• Trueness
• Precision

• Inconsistencies are observed with each other between international guidelines and prescriptive documents, some namely in VIM
• Within each prescriptive body it is difficult, and often out-of-scope, to perform studies for promoting harmonisation
• IMEKO is a unique frame, as an independent, scientific, worldwide, well-recognised Organisation, that can help and work toward implementing this goal, starting from a repository of the recognised problems, and being the site where the discussion is promoted and logged.

• Respondent profile
• Some merits of the VIM 3
• Some open issues in the VIM 3

• History of the VIM
• Foreword to the VIM3
• Structure of the VIM3
• Motivation for the VIM3
• Calibration Diagram
• Metrological Traceability
• Error and Uncertainty in Testing

• STATEMENT TO BE CONSIDERED
• OUTLINE OF JUSTIFICATION
• HYPOTHETICAL SOLUTION
• ADVANTAGES OF HYPOTHETICAL SOLUTION
• CREDENTIALS

1. New Digital Tools for MS & E
2. New Digital Methods for MS & E
3. New Digital Applications for MS & E
4. Summary and Conlusionsfor MS & E

• Introduction
• The ambiguityof widely spread terms
• Suggestions on improvement of terminology
• Organizational proposals
• Conclusion

1. Introduction
2. The concept of printability
3. Measurement information
4. Probabilistic framework, information propagation
   1. Bayesian network
5. Example: paper surface & print defects
6. Conclusions

• A system of measuring units –a universal language
• A brief history of the measuring standards
• The Portuguese weights and measures
• The marco alive until the metric system (XIX century)
• The discoveries saga
• A very recent testimony
• Conclusions

1. Analyses activity of IMEKO and international organization for standardization TCs has shown commonness interest and aims in field of metrology on different levels of works.
2. ISO and IEC membership enables to get regularly the international standards and guides, and other printed matters of ISO and IEC in field of metrology, and to use them for harmonization on the national level.
3. Many conducted studies and its results which provide of IMEKO TCs members can be basis for prepared draft of international standards and guides.
4. Development of cooperative agreements between IMEKO and ISO/IEC for enhancement of international co-operation will be useful.
5. In paper analytical and schematic models of interaction of TCs subsystems of international organization are proposed. Those models are very useful for analyzing possibilities of joint activity in some technical fields.

• Introduction
• PhDstudy of measurement & instrumentation in the Czech republic
• Doctoral study programin thebranch Measurement & Instrumentationat CTU –FEEin Prague
• Study financing
• Conclusion

• Introduction
• Methodology for developing vocational training
• Results of development process
• Summary and Outlook

• The transformation of the engineering education from the Bologna declarations were used in an efficient way to propose to the students an attractive well balanced but broad study program
• From experience gained from IMEKO activitiesby the Technical Committees and the World Congresses, the new bachelor in engineering programme has introduced modern metrology in the frame of measurement science
• This should offer the students a sound basis for further continuing studies in a master programme, research

1. Motivation and Problem statement
2. Concept of the new teaching system
3. Evaluation of the hardware platform
4. Validation and Results
5. Conclusion
6. Outlook

• Brief introduction to x-by-wire systems and standard FlexRay
• Description of our real FlexRay network
• Using the network for studying of FR features

• Introduction
• Structure of the virtual laboratory
• GPIB based system for testing electronic circuits
• Distributed modular system for testing sensor applications
• Demonstration of the system operation
• Conclusion

• Motivation
• Remote lab components
• Measurement workplace for FPGA circuits testing
• Software-LabVIEW
• Access and Time Control
• Mixed Analog Digital Electronics Workplace
• Conclusion

1. Introduction
2. Developed Tool
   1. Virtual Camera
   2. Synthetic Points Generator
   3. Points Extraction from an Image
   4. Camera Calibration
3. Simulator Validation
4. Survey Questionnaire
5. Conclusions

1. Imaging type 2D Fourier spectroscopy by phase-shift interference between object beam can limit the measurement plane into focal plane. We will develop this proposed method for the blood sugar level measurement.
2. Cross-sectional imaging for living single unstained cell is proposed. These technologies can measure the internal and surface structure of cell.

• Raman spectroscopy: principles, advantages
• Application to polymers: strain meas.
• Application to the meas. of the concentration of salt in solutions on road pavements during winter.

1. Motivation
2. Experimental set up
3. Data measurement procedure
4. Data processing
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion

• Background
• Super-resolution optical inspection by using standing wave illumination shift
• Proposal method for 2-D super-resolution
• Construct experimental apparatus verifying proposed method
• Basic experiment of 2-D super-resolution
• Conclusions

• INTRODUCTION
• METHODOLOGY
• REVEALING “GENERIC” SOLUTIONS
• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION PICTURE OF GENERAL QT METHODS
• Revealing specific QT methods
• CONCLUSIONS

• Measurement in a point puts high demands on A/D converters, which cannot provide high sampling rate and high precision simultaneously;
• Measurement over an interval methods to measure average signal values, signal products, root-mean-square values and signals in transform domains are presented;
• Very low measurement uncertainty can be obtained even with a coarse 8-bit A/D converter.

• INTRODUCTION
• THREE PROBLEMS OF VALIDATION
• REFERENCE DATA SETS
• ERROR MODEL
• INVESTIGATIONS
• BOOTSTRAP CONCEPT
• CONCLUSIONS

• A pair of equations can substitute advantageously all the tables in part 2 of ISO 2859 (isolated lots)
• A modified equation (n’) applies to many cases of lot-by-lot sampling (part I of ISO 2859)
• The illustrated approach can be applied also to cases ruled by the Poisson distribution (other cases in ISO 2859)
• Nearly all the tables in ISO 2859 can be eliminated! (without reverting to computer software design)

1. Introduction
2. Motivation
3. State of the art
4. Abstract of the new concept
5. Example for the new workflow-based modeling
6. Conclusion

1. Introduction
2. Bi-Sensorial Test Stand
3. Adjustement of the Measurement System
4. Measurements with the User Interface
5. Conclusion and Outlook

• Background
• DBA used for evaluation of GMIs on the gear profile measurement capability
• Two types of MBAs for evaluation of GMIs on the gear pitch measurement capability
  • Characteristics
  • Calibration method
• Evaluation of gear measuring instruments using calibrated MBA
• Summaries

1. Motivation
2. State of the art
3. Method description
4. Results: visual inspection
5. Results: measurements of real objects scene
6. Results: measurement in synthetic images
7. Conclusion

• Motivation
• System set-up
  • Fiber-optic low-coherence interferometry
  • Miniaturized sensing probe
• Roundness Measurements
• Measurement of Run-Out
• Conclusions and outlook

• Introduction to the topic
  • Paul Regtien, TC1 chairperson
• Introductory notes
• Free discussion
• Conclusions, follow-up.

1. Introduction
2. Tactile measuring machines
3. Optical measuring machines
4. Opticalmeasuringwith beam deflexion
5. Illumination
6. Conclusion

• Historical framework
• Current research activities
• Future research needs and challenges

• Life expectancy is a well-documented and regularly estimated variable that can form the basis of a rigorous safety calculus.
• The J-value method uses measured, economic and actuarial data to provide an evaluation of the human life extension achieved by a safety scheme that is wholly objective and fully transparent.
• The J-value method offers the possibility of consistency in safety decision making.

• Introduction
• Experiment
• Result
• Conclusion

• DEFINITION AND RESEARCH MODELS
• B to B COMPANY TOOLS AND CHALLENGES
• MOVING FROM QUANTITATIVE TO QUALITATIVE DATA
• CATEGORIZATION AND CONVERSION
• UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTORS
• CONCLUSIONS

1. Introduction
2. A model of the relationships between music and emotions
3. Analitical testing of the model
4. The simplest emotional image formed on the basis of signal-stimuli
5. Experimental investigation
6. Future trends of application
7. Conclusions

• STEPS FOR DESIGNING AN EXPERIMENT
• One factor experiments (fixed or random factor)
  • Power and Sample Size determination
• Multiple factor experiments
  • Hierarchical experimental designs
  • Response surface designs
  • Nonlinear desings
  • Mixture designs
  • Optimal designs
• DESIGNING WITH SAS
• CONCLUSIONS

• Why a new guide?
• Purpose of the guide
• Main aims of the guide
• Risk-based approach
• Way forward
• Conclusions

1. General concepts
2. ILC evaluation
3. Laboratories uncertainty validation
4. ILC example
5. Conclusion

• Foster and facilitate the application and understanding of statistical methods to the benefit of European business and industry,
• Provide a forum for the dynamic exchange of ideas and facilitate networking among statistical practitioners (a statistical practitioner is any person using statistical methods whether formally trained or not),
• Nurture interactions and professional development of statistical practitioners regionally and internationally.

• Introduction
• Spectrophotometric analysers of food
• Proposed experimental set-up
• Application examples
• Conclusions