Method and apparatus for estimating error in multi-axis controlled machine

• US 8,700,369 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2010
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyungpook National University
• Original Assignee: Kyungpook National University
• Inventors: Yang, Seung-Han, Lee, Dong-Mok, Kweon, Sung-Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Saxena, Akash
• Application Number:
  US12/769,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218780A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,448 Days
• Field of Search: 703/7, 703/2, 700/15, 700/30, 700/31, 700 57- 58, 700/61, 700/64, 700/78, 700/159, 700/170, 700/28, 700/29, 700/192, 700/173, 702/95, 702/113
• US Class Current: 703/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/10 Complex mathematical operations function generation by table look-up G06F1/03; evaluation of elementary functions by calculation G06F7/544
• CPC Class Codes: G06G 7/48 Analogue computers for specific processes, systems or devices, e.g. simulators

Abstract

A method and apparatus for estimating error in a multi-axis controlled machine is applicable to any type of machine configuration in order to estimate and confirm in advance the final position and the posture of the machine, which are produced when geometric errors of the machine are synthesized. The method includes defining the structure of the multi-axis controlled machine subjected to error estimation; and defining parameters, which represent behaviors of drive axes having geometric error and relationships between the drive axes according to the defined structure of the multi-axis controlled machine, adding the defined parameters by applying the parameters to a generalized error synthesis model, and generating an error synthesis model of the multi-axis controlled machine by applying a result of parametric modeling in response to a result of the adding.

Claims

1. A method for estimating error in a multi-axis controlled machine comprising:

defining the structure of the multi-axis controlled machine subjected to error estimation;

determining local coordinate systems for each link of the multi-axis controlled machine;

defining parameters, which represent behaviors of drive axes having geometric error and relationships between the drive axes according to the defined structure of the multi-axis controlled machine;

adding the defined parameters by applying the parameters to a generalized error synthesis model;

performing parametric modeling on error measurement data, which are measured from the multi-axis controlled machine;

generating an error synthesis model of the multi-axis controlled machine by applying the result of parametric modeling in response to the result of the adding;

wherein the generalized error synthesis model is consisting of;

kinematic modeling of drive axes, which include kinematic error models of linear and rotary axes;

modeling one or more drive axes by arranging the drive axes in forward or backward direction with respect to a reference coordinate system; and

omitting higher order terms of errors from the kinematic error modeling, which includes arranging the drive axes; and

wherein the generalized error synthesis model is expressed by formulas;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein defining the structure of the multi-axis controlled machine defines selecting one or more axis from the group consisting of the drive axes of the multi-axis controlled machine, a posture of a tool, offset distances between the drive axes, and a setting of squareness error.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein defining the drive axes of the multi-axis controlled machine comprises sequentially arranging the drive axes, which are oriented in backward and forward directions in a reference coordinate system of the multi-axis controlled machine.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

creating a virtual coordinate, which includes error of a designated shape to be processed or at a position to be confirmed, using the error synthesis model; and

generating an error map, which visually expresses the created imaginary point.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein creating a virtual coordinate comprises:

determining the designated shape to be processed or the position to be confirmed;

generating a processing route of the multi-axis controlled machine for the designated shape to be processed or the position to be confirmed;

generating or inputting a motion parameter about each of the drive axes of the multi-axis controlled machine along the route processing of the multi-axis controlled machine; and

creating a virtual coordinate having error for each of points of the processing route using the error synthesis model.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the designated shape to be processed is a frustum of a cone or a hemisphere.

7. An apparatus for estimating error in a multi-axis controlled machine, comprising:

a machine configuration definition module for defining a topology of a machine subjected to error estimation;

an error synthesis module for defining parameters, which represent behaviors of drive axes having geometric error and relationships between the drive axes according to the defined structure of the multi-axis controlled machine, adding the defined parameters by applying the parameters to a generalized error synthesis model, and generating an error synthesis model of the multi-axis controlled machine by applying a result of parametric modeling in response to a result of the adding; and

an error mapping module for creating a virtual coordinate, which includes error of a designated shape to be processed or at a position to be confirmed, using the error synthesis model, and generating an error map, which visually expresses the produced imaginary point;

wherein the generalized error synthesis model is derived by selecting one or more from the group consisting of;

kinematic modeling of drive axes, which include kinematic error models of linear and rotary axes;

modeling one or more drive axes by arranging the drive axes in forward or backward direction with respect to a reference coordinate system; and

omitting higher order terms of errors from the kinematic error modeling, which includes arranging the drive axes; and

wherein the generalized error synthesis model is expressed by formulas;

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the mechanistic structure definition module defines one or more axis selected from the group consisting of the drive axes of the multi-axis controlled machine, a posture of a tool, a setting of squareness, and offset distances between the drive axes error.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the machine configuration definition module defines the drive axes of the multi-axis controlled machine by sequentially arranging the drive axes, which are oriented in backward and forward directions in a reference coordinate system of the multi-axis controlled machine.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the designated shape to be processed is a frustum of a cone or a hemisphere.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the generalized error synthesis model is derived by:

kinematic modeling of drive axes, which include kinematic error models of linear and rotary axes;

modeling one or more drive axes by arranging the drive axes in forward or backward direction with respect to a reference coordinate system; and

omitting higher order terms of errors from the kinematic error modeling, which includes arranging the drive axes.