五轴微段平滑插补算法

在五轴加工编程中,计算机辅助制造系统对曲面加工通常采用以折代曲,采用大量的微小G01直线段来加工曲面,在曲率半径较大的工件表面会出现明显折痕,严重影响工件表面的加工质量。为提高五轴数控加工工件的表面质量,提出一种五轴微段平滑插补算法。该算法考虑五轴加工中刀位数据的量纲差异,根据相邻数据点间的线性轴长度、线性轴的夹角和旋转轴角度变化量识别五轴数控加工程序中非连续微段和连续微段加工区域。对非连续微段加工区域按照原始直线段和旋转轴直接插补,从而保证加工精度。对连续微段加工区域,先通过五维变量获取节点参数,采用最小二乘法对指令点在允许的精度范围内进行修正;对修正后的指令点采用4点构造法计算二阶切矢,根据连续微段的指令点修正值,节点参数值和对应的二阶切矢值获取二阶连续的三次样条曲线;在二阶连续平滑的曲线上进行实时插补计算,控制机床进行五轴加工。试验结果表明:通过提出的五轴微段平滑压缩算法拟合后的路径要更加接近原始的曲面模型,平滑处理过的实际工件加工表面也要优于未进行处理的工件加工表面,提高了五轴自由曲面的表面质量。     

Tool path optimization in postprocessor of five-axis machine tools

Generally, tool path is generated in a computer-aided manufacturing software considering only the geometry of machining parts. It is converted into numerical control (NC) codes in the postprocessor based on the particular machine kinematics. For some special types of five-axis machine tools, e.g., non-orthogonal five-axis machine tools, the generated NC codes may produce unqualified parts because of the existence of the non-linear error. Conventional commercialized postprocessors usually do not have the function of non-linear error checking. Observing that the tool path is a non-smooth trajectory full of corners and a series of connected line segments, cubic spline interpolation is applied to smooth the tool path at regular points in this study. The cutter tip center points are computed by the cubic spine interpolation, while the cutter posture vectors are obtained via linear interpolation. At the splines (for regular points) and the line segments (feature points), more points are chosen to be converted into NC codes to reduce the non-linear error, which is called data densification. Using the cubic spline to smooth the tool path and the data densification to reduce the non-linear error, a novel tool path optimization algorithm in postprocessor is proposed. Experiments were carried out on an inclined rotary spindle axis non-orthogonal five-axis machine tool. It shows that the proposed tool path optimization provides improved accuracy and surface quality.     

五轴数控机床加工误差动态修正方法研究

为修正五轴数控机床加工误差,提高五轴数控机床加工质量,提出一种新的五轴数控机床加工误差动态修正方法.构建五轴数控机床加工误差计算模型,获取五轴数控机床加工的刀心方位、刀轴方位轮廓误差;锁定误差方位后,通过五轴数控机床误差的动态实时补偿方法,实现五轴数控机床加工误差动态修正.研究结果表明:所提方法可实现全方位、高效率的五...     

Reduction of geometry-based errors in five-axis machining through enhanced 5D interpolation

Geometry-based errors constitute a special category of CAM-originated machining inaccuracies that significantly influence the precision of five-axis surface machining operations. Geometry-based errors reflect the inability of the cutter to accurately trace a prescribed 3D tool path in five-axis machining. Their magnitude constitutes an overlapped effect of the adopted interpolation scheme, cutter, and surface geometries, as well as kinematics of the five-axis machine tool, assumed free of errors by the CAM software. Although the presence of these errors is inherent in the current configuration of five-axis computer numerically controlled machining systems, little efforts were made so far towards their reduction. In this regard, the present study has investigated the magnitude of geometry-based errors as generated by various 5D interpolation schemes. These enhanced interpolation functions were determined by enforcing better approximations of the ideal machine control coordinate (MCC) trajectory as calculated in five-axis machine tool’s joint space. By comparing the geometry-based errors generated by the enhanced 5D interpolation schemes with linear interpolation baseline, it was found that significant error reductions will be obtained when synchronized 5D quadratic functions are used to approximate the ideal MCC curve in joint space. Moreover, the parametric synchronization between rotational and translational machine tool motions represents an essential requirement for limitation of the amount of geometry-based errors.     

五轴数控加工中旋转轴运动引起的非线性误差分析及控制

五轴数控(Computer numerical control,CNC)加工中,刀具路径规划阶段与实际加工阶段对旋转轴运动采用的插补方式存在差异,其中刀具路径规划阶段是根据零件的几何信息进行插补,而实际加工中则根据机床信息进行插补,这种差异将引起原理性加工误差。针对五轴数控加工中旋转轴的运动,分析采用线性插补方式控制两个旋转轴进行加工时刀具姿态变化引起的原理性误差,进一步研究不同加工情况下由此产生的在垂直于走刀方向的平面内的非线性误差。通过分析旋转轴运动过程中线性插补引起的刀轴偏差角,证明刀具在相邻两刀位点运动过程的中间时刻处刀轴偏差角取得最大值,并得到由该最大值的显式表达式,在此基础上分析最大偏差角的影响因素。提出通过限制相邻两刀位点间刀轴夹角来控制此非线性误差的方法,并给出实例验证。     

Geometrical Error Analysis and Control for 5-axis Machining of Large sculptured surfaces

One of the important tasks in five-axis machining of large sculptured surfaces is to control and reduce the machined errors. This paper presents the methods to control geometrical errors based on the establishment of the link between geometrical errors and the parameters of tool path planning. Nonlinear errors, which are the majority of geometrical errors during five-axis machining, are is strictly analysed and formulated. An adaptive step length method is proposed to control effectively the cutter contact path error. The measures to reduce the scallop error in machining of the large sculptured surfaces are discussed also. With the combination of this research with CAM software, both large Kaplan and Francis hydroturbine blades have been successfully machined. It shows that the machined errors can be controlled effectively and the machining efficiency can be improved in the machining of the large sculptured surfaces by the proposed methods.     

NC Machining of Freeform Pockets with Arbitrary Wall Geometry Using a Grid-Based Navigation Approach

A tool path must be determined in an efficient manner to generate NC (numerical control) code for machining. This is particularly important when machining freeform pockets with arbitrary wall geometry on a three-axis CNC machine. In this paper, a grid-based 3D navigation algorithm for generating NC tool-path data for both linear interpolation and a combination of linear and circular interpolation is presented for three-axis CNC milling of general pockets with sculptured bottom surfaces. The pocket surface is discretised by defining a grid and the navigation algorithm plans the tool motion. The grid size and the cutter diameter are chosen so that a predefined tolerance for surface roughness is satisfied. The grid-based navigation algorithm is simulated graphically and verified experimentally.     

复杂曲面上投影曲线的误差可控插补算法

为保证曲面精加工质量的一致性,减轻后续处理工作量,提出了一种误差可控的复杂曲面上投影曲线的直接插补算法。在分析复杂曲面五轴联动数控加工所产生的非线性误差的基础上,在算法中引入误差控制方法,即采用参数对分法来减小非线性误差的影响。方法简单,实用,有利于提高曲面加工质量,可以很好地满足工程实际需求。最后通过实例仿真验证了算法的有效性。     

五轴铣削加工精度预测系统开发研究

五轴联动数控加工运动复杂,影响零件加工精度的误差因素很多,针对目前五轴加工误差模型比较单一,还没有将多个误差因素综合考虑起来进行分析及预测的现状,提出了基于多体系统理论建立工艺系统综合误差模型的统一方法,详细研究了工艺系统综合误差模型的计算机映射方式,基于VS2010与OpenGL开发了具有可视化交互界面的五轴铣削加工精度预测系统,可在加工前对零件的加工精度进行预测。实际切削加工试验证实了该系统对零件加工精度预测的准确性和有效性,表明基于多体系统理论的精度预测方法是可行的。     

五轴数控机床几何误差建模方法研究

五轴数控机床是实现工件复杂表面精密加工的重要设备,而机床本身精度是保证加工精度的重要前提。以一台大型五轴数控加工机床为研究对象,分析各项误差,应用多体系统运动学理论,建立移动轴与旋转轴的几何误差数学模型,推导出刀具相对工件坐标系的位置与姿态误差表达式,为误差补偿提供精确数学模型,提高机床加工精度。     

基于机床运动模型的走刀步长计算方法

为提高五坐标数控加工刀具轨迹生成的精度和切削效率,通过特定机床结构运动建模,对自由曲面刀具轨迹规划中的走刀步长计算方法进行研究。针对刀具摆动与工作台转动类型的非正交结构五坐标机床,在建立机床运动传递关系的基础上,实现任意刀轴方位的机床各轴运动坐标分解,构建机床运动模型。基于此,分析切削误差产生机理,推导出非正交结构的机床实际运动误差估计公式。利用切削误差对比关系,迭代计算满足精度要求的最大走刀步长。算例表明,在相同的允许误差条件下,本文算法较之传统变步长方法,最大误差降低了37.01%,而平均步长相对于等步长方法,增加了8.91%,说明基于机床运动模型的走刀步长计算方法能够有效控制切削误差,并提高自由曲面五坐标加工的刀具轨迹质量。     

An adaptive feedrate scheduling method of dual NURBS curve interpolator for precision five-axis CNC machining

Non-uniform rational b-spline (NURBS) tool path is becoming more and more important due to the increasing requirement for machining geometrically complex parts. However, NURBS interpolators, particularly related to five-axis machining, are quite limited and still keep challenging. In this paper, an adaptive feedrate scheduling method of dual NURBS curve interpolator with geometric and kinematic constraints is proposed for precision five-axis machining. A surface expressed by dual NURBS curves, which can continuously and accurately describe cutter tip position and cutter axis orientation, is first used to define five-axis tool path. For the given machine configuration, the calculation formulas of angular feedrate and geometric error aroused by interpolation are given, and then, the adaptive feedrate along the tool path is scheduled with confined nonlinear geometric error and angular feedrate. Combined with the analytical relations of feed acceleration with respect to the arc length parameter and feedrate, the feed profiles of linear and angular feed acceleration sensitive regions are readjusted with corresponding formulas and bi-directional scan algorithm, respectively. Simulations are performed to validate the feasibility of the proposed feed scheduling method of dual NURBS curve interpolator. It shows that the proposed method is able to ensure the geometric accuracy and good machining performances in five-axis machining especially in flank machining.     

A study on the five-axis end milling for sculptured surfaces

The direction vector of milling cutter for CL-data of five-axis milling is obtained by the fact that the bottom part of the milling cutter rides on free-form surfaces using the z-map method. Since the direction vector is known, CL-data can be transformed to the NC-code with regard to the geometry of the five-axis machine and post-processing. For uniform surfaces, the tool path is created from the prediction of cusp heights. After generating the NC-code, a sculptured surface was machined by five-axis end milling and cusp heights on the machined surface were measured by a three-dimensional CMM with laser scanner. From this machining test, it was found that this machining method is effective.     

A new accurate curvature matching and optimal tool based five-axis machining algorithm

Free-form surfaces are widely used in CAD systems to describe the part surface. Today, the most advanced machining of free from surfaces is done in five-axis machining using a flat end mill cutter. However, five-axis machining requires complex algorithms for gouging avoidance, collision detection and powerful computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems to support various operations. An accurate and efficient method is proposed for five-axis CNC machining of free-form surfaces. The proposed algorithm selects the best tool and plans the toolpath autonomously using curvature matching and integrated inverse kinematics of the machine tool. The new algorithm uses the real cutter contact toolpath generated by the inverse kinematics and not the linearized piecewise real cutter location toolpath.     

考虑热误差的双转台机床工艺误差谱预测方法

五轴数控机床的几何误差和热误差是影响工件加工精度的两个重要因素,对这些误差因素进行分析可以有效提高薄壁件工件的加工精度。本文首先基于齐次坐标变换法,建立了双转台五轴数控机床的旋转轴几何误差模型;然后基于对标准球进行在机接触测量,辩识得出两旋转轴的12项几何误差,这些误差考虑了两旋转轴之间的相互影响和其热误差的影响;最后分析五轴数控机床加工空间的几何误差场,在该加工空间内几何误差从中心到外侧逐渐增加,当A轴旋转角度增加时,误差的最大值也随之增加。与其它位置误差辨识方法相比,本方法的测量精度符合加工要求,测量时间只需要30 min。     

Research on the method of precision evaluation and controlling for the cutter location path in five-axis machining

Current five-axis machining path planning is based on cutter location points, and only the scallop height of the points are calculated roughly to evaluate the planning precision, but the height of the scallop formed in the whole movement of the cutter can’t be calculated effectively, therefore, the machining precision can’t be controlled reasonably. This paper presents a new method to calculate the scallop height of the whole movement of the cutter and control the machining precision, which derives a five-axis machining cutter movement envelope equation, calculates the intersection of the cutter enveloping surfaces of adjacent paths to acquire the scallop curve and calculates the distance from the curve to the design surface to acquire the maximal height. Based on the method, the precision evaluation can be realized accurately and the machining precision can be controlled effectively by adjusting the cutter pose and optimizing the machining path interval.     

五轴龙门数控铣床转动轴联动中的动态轨迹误差仿真分析

针对刀具两摆的五轴龙门数控铣床,对一转动轴与一平动轴联动及两转动轴联动加工圆弧时的动态轨迹误差分别进行了分析。采用D-H(Denavit-Hartenberg)法对轴的输入的进给指令位置计算公式进行了推导,并将进给指令位置输入到由动态仿真工具Simulink构建的进给伺服系统仿真模型中,得到了圆弧上动态轨迹误差的分布曲线。通过对转动轴联动加工圆弧的动态轨迹误差分析,可为五轴龙门数控铣床转动轴动态误差的检测提供指导,使得机床的检测与调整更加快速和便捷。     

CNC机床动态特性与S形试件轮廓误差映射关系分析

以双摆头五轴数控机床为研究对象建立了仿真模型,并对其准确性进行了实验验证。然后通过仿真分析揭示了S形试件轮廓误差在试件各分区的表现规律。基于机床动态特性与S形试件轮廓误差的映射关系,可以为实际加工中五轴数控机床动态性能参数的调整、机床性能评价及加工误差的溯源和辨识提供指导依据。     

A study on the grinding of the major flank face of error-free spur slice cutter

A grinding method for the major flank face of error-free spur slice cutter is proposed according to urgent demand for the slice cutter in practical production. The geometrical characteristic of the major flank face is analyzed based on the surface Gaussian curvature. On this basis, the grinding motion model based on B-type CNC five-axis tool grinding machine is built. The grinding point path planning method according to the accuracy requirement of the major flank face is proposed. The interference checking and avoiding method is also found. The major flank face of a slice cutter is grinded based on the above study result. As a result, the machining error of the major flank face is less than 0.01 mm and the surface roughness is Ra0.3. This result meets the accuracy requirement that the machining error and surface roughness of the major flank face need to be respectively less than 0.01 mm and Ra0.4. The machining example shows that the study result in this paper is valid for the major flank face grinding. This paper provides a technical support for the manufacturing of error-free spur slice cutter.     

A new high-efficiency error compensation system for CNC multi-axis machine tools

To enhance the accuracy of CNC machines for the request of modern industry, an effective static/quasi-static error compensation system composed of an element-free interpolation algorithm based on the Galerkin method for error prediction, a recursive software compensation procedure, and an NC-code converting software, is developed. Through automatically analyzing the machining path, the new error prediction method takes into consideration the fact that the machine structure is non-rigid, and can efficiently determine the position errors of the cutter for compensation without computing a complex error model on-line. The predicted errors are then compensated based on a recursive compensation algorithm. Finally, a compensated NC program will be automatically generated by the NC-code converting software for the precision machining process. Because of the advantage of the element-free theory, the error prediction method can flexibly and irregularly distribute nodal points for accurate error prediction for a machine with complex error distribution characteristics throughout the workspace. To verify the algorithm and the developed system, cutting experiments were conducted in this study, and the results have shown the success of the proposed error compensation system.