A convenient strategy for identifying the motion errors from the tilting-rotary table of 4-axis simultaneous control machine tools with a ball-bar is proposed
including the axial testing and cone-shaped testing. In the axial testing the double-circle motion
in which two translational axes and one rotary axis are simultaneously controlled to keep the distance between the tool and the worktable constant
is designed to identify the deviations of the rotary axis
thus two angular deviations and one positional deviation are obtained
and the other two positional deviations are obtained by the cone-shaped testing. To achieve high-precision measurement results
the errors due to the circular motion of the two translational axes in the double-circle motion are removed by an additional test with corresponding arithmetic. The comparative results show that the strategy greatly simplifies the measurement device and accelerates the error quantification.
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