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Investigation of sensitivity analysis and compensation parameter optimization of geometric error for five-axis machine tool

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To improve the accuracy of five-axis machine tool with a swiveling head, an approach for optimizing compensation values taking into account the sensitivity of position-independent geometric error is proposed in this paper. At first, the synthetic volumetric error model of five-axis machine tool has been established with homogeneous transformation method and multibody system theory, which describes the effect of geometric error components on position and orientation error vector intuitively. Second, the probability distributions of geometric errors in workspace of machine tool are sufficiently taken into account in order to overcome the defects of the analysis at certain locations, and then, global quantitative sensitivity analysis is introduced for determining the effect of each geometric error on precision of machine tool. Next, the optimum values are obtained by multiobjective quality loss and precision robustness trade-offs based on archive-based microgenetic algorithm (AMGA) for geometric error compensation. Finally, the geometric error compensation experiments were carried out, and the results show that the accuracy of measuring trajectories are improved significantly, which reaches 73.7% after error compensation with optimum values based on sensitivity analysis. Hence, the proposed methodology of analysis and compensation are effective for analyzing the effect of geometric errors and improving the precision of machine tool.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Shijie Guo, Gedong Jiang & Xuesong Mei

  2. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robots, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

    Shijie Guo, Gedong Jiang & Xuesong Mei

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Guo, S., Jiang, G. & Mei, X. Investigation of sensitivity analysis and compensation parameter optimization of geometric error for five-axis machine tool. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 93, 3229–3243 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-0755-6

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