Vasileios Vlachakis Early Stage Researcher 1.3, Work Package 1 Mid-Term Review 28-19/05/2015

1 Professional experience Surveyor at CERN, attached to the Experiments Group of the Large Scale Metrology. (Employed by the French company SINTEGRA). Freelancer Surveying Engineer, involved in various applications of land surveying. Surveying Engineer, in a highway construction site, at Southern Greece. (Employed by the Greek company STRAKTOR). Surveying Engineer, during the military service at the Hellenic Army. Studies High Precision Surveying Applications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Rural and Surveying Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (not completed). Background Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

2 Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015 Starting date:1 st March 2014 Project title: Micro-triangulation for high accuracy short range measurements of dynamic objects. Home Institution: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich Host Institution: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva Thesis supervisor:Prof. Dr. Markus Rothacher CERN supervisor:Jean-Frederic Fuchs Industry supervisor:Dr. Heinrich Schwenke Secondments: ETH, Zurich Aug (1M) Etalon AG, Braunschweig Sept. – Nov. 2014(3M) ETH, Zurich mid-Feb. – May 2015(3.5M) Position overview

3 PhD Thesis Starting date:3 rd April 2014 Thesis title: Micro-triangulation for high accuracy short range measurements of dynamic objects. Status: Provisionally admitted to the Doctoral Studies. Enrolled in spring 2015 semester (3 courses). Research plan in progress Deadline Credits:Required 12 Already obtained 0 (officially) Acquired10-11 (unofficially) Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

4 Technical Introduction to Metrology16 h Advanced course in FSI, Etalon AG16 h AXEL: Introduction to Particle Accelerators15 h Languages General and Professional French courses (Level 3)60 h Communication and Personal Development Communication course for guides4 h Team-based Interventions8 h Making presentations24 h Administration CERN Induction Programme16 h CERN EDMS - Introduction8 h Introduction to EDH and HRT1 h Secure and Web browsing2 h Indico for beginners - Meeting Organization2 h 1 credit 2 credits 1 credit Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

5 Physical Geodesy and Geodynamics4 credits Lectures: 28 h, Labs: 11 h, homework: 59 h Total: 98 h Project Parameter Estimation 3 credits Lectures: 27 h, Homework: 54 hTotal: 81 h Industrial Metrology and Machine Vision4 credits Lectures: 22 h, Labs: 13 h, Homework: 68 h Total: 103 h IT courses C/C++2 h LaTeX 4 h MATLAB 4 h HTML, CSS2 h Geomatics seminars Recent Advances in Terrestrial Radar Interferometry2 h Bathymetry of lakes: Exploring the underwater world2 h Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

6 AG Frequency Scanning Interferometry principles and technology Absolute Multiline software and hardware Coordinate Measuring Machine manual use and geometrical deviations measurement technique Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

7 Project/ Contribution To measure the targets (fiducials) and the stretched wire in a common coordinate system Portable, time and cost efficient metrology solution Automatic, massive, accurate measurements Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

8 Project/ Methodology Measure horizontal & vertical angles (scale?) Detect the spheres and the stretch wire Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

9 Project/ QDaedalus Developed at ETH Zurich Based on Industrial Theodolites/Total Stations Consists of hardware and software developments Replaces eye piece with CCD camera, non destructively Uses Object Target Recognition Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

10 Project/ QDaedalus Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015 Hardware Leica TDA5005 (produced since 1996) CCD Guppy (4.65μm pixel size) Software Qt, C++, OpenCV Previous results

11 Project/ Tasks Upgrade of the system Control several instrumentsApr 15 Enhance Auto-Focus May 15 Automatize exposure time Jun 15 Adapt the system to the PACMAN project Test new FSI targetsJul 15 Detect the stretched wireSept 15 Simulate configurationNov 15 Inter-comparison with FSI Jan 16 Measurements on the PACMAN bench Aug 16 Improve GUITest Leica TS50Improve connectivity Extrapolation to a portable solution Dec 16 Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

12 Project/ Results Simulations Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

13 Project/ Results Auto-Focusing algorithm Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

14 Project/ Results Comparison between CMM and μ-Triangulation Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

15 Project/ Results Wire detection Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

16 Dissemination & Outreach International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA 2014), October, Beijing. Co-author in the conference note: PACMAN study of FSI and Micro-triangulation for the pre-alignment of CLIC. ETH Zurich PhD students’ day, 22 October 2014, Zurich. Presentation of the poster: QDaedalus for the CLIC pre-alignment study in the frame of PACMAN training network. Large Volume Metrology Conference (LVMC 2014), November, Manchester. Attendance and contribution to the presentation: Metrology and Alignment of the Components of CLIC in the PACMAN Project given by Solomon William Kamugasa. Milestone M1-7 document, November Document: Specification of Micro-triangulation software and hardware. Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

17 Dissemination & Outreach CLIC Workshop 2015, January 2015, Geneva. Attendance and contribution to the presentation: Metrology and pre-alignment of the components of CLIC in the PACMAN project given by myself. 1st PACMAN Workshop, February 2015, Geneva. Attendance and presentation: Micro-triangulation for high accuracy short range measurements of dynamic objects. Swiss National Report on the Geodetic activities in the years 2011 to Co-author in the article: FSI and Micro-Triangulation Study for the Pre-alignment of CLIC in the PACMAN Project. Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

18 Networking Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

19 Impact Training Networking Personal Development Carrier Development State-of-the-art Research Job Opportunities Vasileios Vlachakis, ESR1.3 PACMAN Mid-Term Review 28-29/05/2015

Thank you for your attention Mid-Term Review 28-19/05/2015 Vasileios Vlachakis ESR 1.3, WP 1