Device (10) for detecting the position of a body (12), in particular for detecting errors in several
degrees of freedom, wherein the device (10) comprises a
transmitter unit (14), at least one spatially resolving sensor (16), an evaluation and
control unit (18), and a target element (20) with three retroreflectors (22), wherein the
transmitter unit (14) is configured to emit three parallel light beams (24), wherein the retroreflectors (22) are configured to reflect one of the three light beams (24) back to the
transmitter unit (14) as a retroreflected
light beam (26), wherein the at least one spatially resolving sensor (16) is configured to detect a first
signal, wherein the transmitter unit (14) is configured to detect a second
signal from the three retroreflected light beams (26), and wherein the evaluation and
control unit (18) is configuredto determine, by means of the first
signal and the second signal,
six degrees of freedom of the body (12) exhibiting a
position error (48), a first
translation error (50), a second
translation error (52), a roll error (54), a
yaw error (56) and a
pitch error (58), wherein the evaluation and control device (18) is configured to determine, by means of the first signal, the first
translation error (50), the second translation error (52) and the roll error (54) and, by means of the second signal, the
position error (48), the
yaw error (56) and the
pitch error (58).