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A VIRTUAL MACHINE TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF STANDARDIZED 5-AXIS PERFORMANCE TESTS

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Author(s)

Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., Shawn P. Moylan, M A. Donmez

Abstract

Standards committees are actively working to develop standard test methods for the performance evaluation of 5-axis machining centers through the direct and indirect measurement of simultaneous motions of all five axes [1-2]. However, the compound effect of the individual geometric errors and servo control errors makes the analysis of the measurement results complicated and the identification and separation of the individual error contributor(s) difficult. To better understand the effect of the individual errors on the measurement results, NIST is developing a multi-configuration five-axis Virtual Machine Tool (VMT) model.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE)
Volume
54
Conference Dates
October 21-26, 2012
Conference Location
San Diego, CA
Conference Title
27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

Virtual Machine Tool, Machine Tool Metrology
Manufacturing systems design and analysis, Process measurement and control and Robotics

Citation

Fesperman, R. , Moylan, S. and Donmez, M. (2012), A VIRTUAL MACHINE TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF STANDARDIZED 5-AXIS PERFORMANCE TESTS, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE), San Diego, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911899 (Accessed October 16, 2025)

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Created October 26, 2012, Updated February 19, 2017
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