Volumetric distortion assessment of a five-axis machine by probing a 3D reconfigurable uncalibrated master ball artefact

Precision Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-125

  Erkan, Tibet ^a   Mayer, J R René ^a   Dupont, Yannick ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PRATT AND WHITNEY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ball artefact; Five axis machine tool; On machine probing; Reconfigurable artefact; Uncalibrated artefact; Volumetric errors

Indexed keywords

BALL ARTEFACT; FIVE-AXIS MACHINES; ON-MACHINE PROBING; RE-CONFIGURABLE; UNCALIBRATED ARTEFACT; VOLUMETRIC ERRORS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ERRORS; MACHINE TOOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBES; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78049275272     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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