The project is carried out by research teams from the University of Zielona Góra, the Silesian University of Technology and the Central Office of Measures in Warsaw..
University of Zielona Góra (UZG), Institute of Metrology, Electronics and Computer Science (IMEI)
Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Department of Measurement Science, Electronics and Control (KMEiA)
Central Office of Measures (GUM) in Warsaw, Laboratory of Standards of Low Frequency Electrical Quantities (LWWEMC)
Research teams from the Institute of Metrology, Electronics and Computer Science of UZG and from the Department of Measurement Science, Electronics and Control of SUT have been cooperating with the Department of Electricity and Radiation at GUM for many years. Joint activities are carried out both within the framework of bilateral agreements between universities and GUM and within the framework of joint participation in international research projects.
Below, we synthetically describe the achievements and research potential of the teams from both universities (partners in the project) with reference primarily to the thematic area of the project and cooperation with GUM.
The scientific and research potential of IMEI UZG in the scope of the implemented project is presented below on the basis of national and international research projects implemented jointly with GUM and for GUM, joint publications of members of the IMEI research team and GUM employees, selected publications of the IMEI team and the measuring equipment and specialzed software available at IMEI with parameters and functional capabilities enabling the implementation of the project’s objectives.
During the long-term cooperation between IMEI UZG and GUM, which began in 2006, many joint projects have been implemented. Examples include projects in which members of the IMEI team participated. The first of them was directly related to the research activities of the LWWEMC of GUM:
second – with the Time and Frequency Laboratory of GUM:
Integrated system for monitoring and controlling measurement systems of the national standard of time and frequency units
IMEI team members also participated in two EU projects coordinated by EURAMET within the EMRP and EMPiR programmes:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) of SUT and especially KMEiA, has been cooperating with GUM for many years. The result of this cooperation is, among others, unique equipment developed and built in KMEiA and then implemented at measurement stands in GUM. KMEiA, in cooperation with GUM, conducted research and development work, especially in the field of reference resistance and impedance measurements, AC-voltage standards, thermal transducers of AC voltage and AC-DC transfers. An example of such work is the NCBiR research project System for ensuring measurement traceability of high resistance standards in relation to the primary standard QHR using resistance transfers. The result of this project is the modernization of the GUM stand, cooperating with the national standard for calibration of high-resistance resistors. KMEiA employees were consultants to GUM, among others in the field of reference AC-DC transfer and thermal standards of AC voltage. FEE participated, as a GUM "collaborator", in the EMPIR 17RPT04-VersICaL project, cooperating in the validation of the digital impedance standard comparison system. From 2018 to 2021, FEE of SUT cooperated with 10 foreign NMIs within this project. The unique equipment built as part of this work will constitute an element of the national impedance standard for impedance calibration with an accuracy of up to 1∙10-6 in the near future.
The cooperation between FEE of SUT and GUM also results in joint publications in scientific journals and conference presentations. Another area of cooperation is the co-organization of metrological scientific and technical conferences: Problems and Progress In Metrology or the international conference Quantum and Precision Metrology. The main executors and authors of this project from SUT: prof. dr hab. inż. Marian Kampik and dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Musioł, prof. PŚ have extensive international experience in the area of impedance measurements at the highest metrological level (including participation in the aforementioned EURAMET AIM QuTE and VersICaL projects). For many years, they have been cooperating with several significant National Metrology Institutes (i.e. PTB, INRiM, METAS), which is confirmed by internships completed in these institutes (17 in total) and joint publications. Professor Marian Kampik managed a total of six research projects. In the recent period, these were: