Error Calibration for Five-Axis Machine Tools by On-the-Machine Measurement Using a Touch-Trigger Probe

Soichi Ibaraki; Yusuke Ota

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Error Calibration for Five-Axis Machine Tools by On-the-Machine Measurement Using a Touch-Trigger Probe

Soichi Ibaraki and Yusuke Ota

Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishigyo-ku, Kyoto 616-8540, Japan

Received:

August 1, 2013

Accepted:

November 11, 2013

Published:

January 5, 2014

Keywords:

five-axis machine tools, touch-trigger probe, geometric errors, error map, error calibration

Abstract

This paper presents a scheme to calibrate the error map of the rotary axes of a five-axis machine tool. This is done by means of on-the-machine measurement of a test piece using a contact-type touch-trigger probe. The present probing-based approach is more suitable for efficient and automated “self-calibration,” than conventional calibration schemes, such as ball bar tests or R-test. It is thus advantageous in the application to periodic checking of the error map, or periodic updating of its numerical compensation. In the present approach, a test piece of arbitrary geometry, e.g. a raw unmachined workpiece, can be used as the probing target. An experimental demonstration is presented.

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S. Ibaraki and Y. Ota, “Error Calibration for Five-Axis Machine Tools by On-the-Machine Measurement Using a Touch-Trigger Probe,” Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.8 No.1, pp. 20-27, 2014.

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[23] [23] B. Bringmann andW. Knapp, “Machine tool calibration: Geometric test uncertainty depends on machine tool performance,” Precision Engineering, Vol.33, pp. 524-529, 2009.