Improvement of motion accuracy and characteristic estimation of 5 DOF motion errors in an ultra-precision hydrostatic feed table
Yoon-Jin Oh
Department of Mechanical and Precision Engineering,
Graduate School, Pusan National University
ABSTRACT
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Improvement of motion accuracy and characteristic estimation of 5 DOF motion errors in an ultra-precision hydrostatic feed table
Yoon-Jin Oh
Department of Mechanical and Precision Engineering,
Graduate School, Pusan National University
ABSTRACT
Axial directional motion error in a feed table strongly influences the form accuracy of work-pieces. Accordingly, as greater precision is demanded in machining, improvement of each axial directional motion error is required. The aim of the present work is to improve the motion accuracy in an ultra-precision hydrostatic feed table.
In order to improve the five DOF motion errors in the hydrostatic feed table, active controlled variable capillaries, named ACC, are employed and a five DOF motion errors compensation system is employed. The compensation system uses two active controlled capillaries simultaneously in compensation for horizontal linear motion and yaw errors and three active controlled capillaries simultaneously in compensation for vertical linear motion, pitch and roll errors. By the compensation, five DOF motion errors of the hydrostatic feed table were improved to the limit of the measuring accuracies. From these results, it is found that the motion errors compensation method utilizing active controlled capillaries effectively decreases the five DOF motion errors of the hydrostatic feed tables.
In the ultra-precision five DOF motion errors measurement, a combination of measuring methods are used. The yaw and pitch errors are measured with a laser interferometer, and the roll error is measured by the reversal method. The linear motion errors in the vertical and horizontal directions are measured by applying the sequential two point method, where the influence of angular motion errors on the linear measurement is compensated by utilizing the measured angular motion errors.
In order to improve the positioning accuracy of the hydrostatic feed table, a coreless linear DC motor, which compensates the shortcomings of the servomotor and ballscrew, and a laser scale are used in the feeding system. The influence on the thermal characteristics of temperature variation of the supplied oil and the atmosphere in terms of the positioning accuracy of the hydrostatic feed table are assessed. Their influence on positioning error is also analyzed experimentally. From the experimental results, it is confirmed that positioning error and repeatability are minimized when the temperature of the supplied oil is set equally to the atmospheric temperature. It is also found that thermal deformation of the scale and supporter, which results from temperature variation of the atmosphere and supplied oil, limits the positioning error and repeatability.