Rotation error measurement technology and experimentation research of high-precision hydrostatic spindle

Abstract

The hydrostatic spindle is widely applied in the field of high-precision machine tools, which has some advantages such as high stiffness, high rotary precision, and the high damping shock absorption. The spindle rotation error is an important index to measure the machining accuracy of machine tools. Due to the installing eccentric error of the test bar, conventional method based on the standard test bar to measure the rotation error indirectly is applied to the precision machine tools and common machine tools whose rotation error is greater than 1 μm only. In order to eliminate the installing eccentric error of the standard test bar, it presents a self-reference approach that takes the online finish turning test bar, rather than that of the standard test bar, as the measuring datum. Using the capacitive micro-displacement sensor and the LMS data acquisition equipment as the test platform, it designs a set of spindle rotation error measurement system. Then it studies the frequency domain three-point method and has the rotation error and roundness error of high-precision hydrostatic spindle separated. Experimental study shows that the rotation error and the roundness error of the spindle are 0.9 and 0.3 μm, respectively, under the circumstance of conventional standard test bar as the measuring datum. However, if it takes the online finish turning test bar as the measuring datum, the rotation error and the roundness error of the spindle are only 0.3 and 0.1 μm, respectively. The self-reference method is able to eliminate the installing eccentric error of standard test bar directly, and the measurement system has realized the accurate measurements of the rotation error and roundness error of the high-precision hydrostatic spindle.