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Keeping the actual jet rotation control point of AWJ cutting head right on the cutting path

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As five-axis machining technology has been used to eliminate the natural defects, such as taper and jet lag, presented on the AWJ cutting surface, setting the jet rotation control point the same as the jet injecting point simplifies the processing of path planning and trajectory generation greatly. However, to get high precision cutting, the jet injecting point needs to be kept right on the cutting path. There are several major reasons which could cause the jet injecting point deviate from the cutting path, including linear motion errors of the X axis and Y axis, the changing of the standoff distance, and the rotational/swivel errors of the cutting head. In order to keep the jet injecting point right on the cutting path, a standoff distance tracker has been applied to keep the standoff distance unchanged. Further, a method to measure the rotational/swivel errors of the rotational/swivel cutting head and an error compensation method have been provided. To verify the effectiveness of this method, a real cutting has been carried out, and higher precision cutting has been reached.

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This paper is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51675320), the Scientific Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial Education Department (Grant No: 182495), and the Key Subject Project (Z171140303) financed by Xihua University, China.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039, China

    Yuqiang Wu & Yuyong Lei

  2. Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotic, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Yuqiang Wu, Shijin Zhang, Binghai Chen & Zhiyuan Wu

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Wu, Y., Zhang, S., Lei, Y. et al. Keeping the actual jet rotation control point of AWJ cutting head right on the cutting path. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 108, 3291–3299 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05419-2

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