Tim
Monks
I am Managing Director at Third Dimension (Bristol, UK), a company which develops and sells 3D measurement products in selected industrial market niches and has specialist expertise in non-contact laser measurement systems.
Work interests
My main interest at work is the design and development of novel dimensional quality control products for industry - i.e. products for measuring, dimensioning, gauging or tolerancing. More specifically, I work on machine vision and image processing based devices, i.e. non-contact devices that measure based on computer images, and require no contact with the object being measured.
Over the last few years I have headed design and development of several products. Each of these involves a wide mix of technologies: MS Windows (including CE), COM, C++, Embedded Visual C++ and VB programming, six sigma techniques, digital electronics, lasers and optics, embedded processors, DSP, FPGA and PLD.
- The Gap Gun - a novel laser gauge for measuring gap and flush for advanced manufacturing
- The VolScan laser freight dimensioning system - the first and only completely non-intrusive freight dimensioning system.
- The MTS wind-tunnel model tracking system
- ...and many other projects at Third Dimension.
Contents of this site
- PhD home page: Digitising the shape of moving objects - Tim Monks 1995. Describes a structured light scanner based on colour encoded structured light, that was used to measure the shape of the mouth during continuous speech (see image below).
- Pictures - family, travels, rock climbing, mountain biking, snow boarding, etc.
Contact
You can contact me by email at tpm@third.com, or on +44 (0)7973 826820.