Method to evaluate speed and accuracy performance of CNC machine tools by speed-error 2-D representation

Abstract

In this research, we propose a method to evaluate both speed and accuracy performance of CNC machine tools at the same time. An important facet of the contouring performance of machine tools with computer numerical control (CNC) is the machining of workpieces within the desired accuracy and within as short a time as possible. For this reason, a method for evaluating speed and accuracy in the two dimensions of speed and error based on the actual trajectory, which is the actual movement trajectory with respect to the linear axes of CNC machine tools, has been proposed. In this research, we explain the method proposed for linear axes and propose a method to evaluate the speed and accuracy of a rotary axis and a linear axis in the two dimensions of speed and error by introducing a cylindrical surface to the combined movement of the rotary and linear axes. With experiments, we quantitatively evaluated the speed and accuracy of multiple CNC machine tools using two-dimensional representation with graphs of the actual speed and maximum error for the combined movement of a rotary axis and a linear axis.

Keywords

• cnc machine tool
• evaluation
• speed
• accuracy
• linear axis
• rotary axis