Five-axis tool orientation smoothing using quaternion interpolation algorithm

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1259-1267

  Ho, Ming Che ^a   Hwang, Yean Ren ^a   Hu, Chang Hsia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CAM; Cutting error improvement; Five axis; Tool orientation smoothing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CUTTING; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERPOLATION; MACHINING;

TOOL ORIENTATION SMOOTHING;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 0042133121     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(03)00107-X     Document Type: Article

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