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Fig. 2. Photograph of the prototype turning machine showing the spindle, cross slide, and fast tool servo support structure. We have designed and built a prototype turning machine that includes our novel rotary fast tool servo axis [5]. Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the machine, Fig. 2 is a photo- graph of the prototype machine, and Fig. 3 is a close-up view of the rotary arm. An air bearing spindle holds the lens and rotates it at speeds of up to 10,000 rpm (although we have limited this to 5000 rpm initially for safety reasons). A porous graphite linear air bearing, driven by a linear motor, carries the spindle and provides motion in the cross-feed direction. This cross slide mounts to an 81-cm (32-in) square surface plate that serves as the machine base. Encoders measure the position in both axes, providing 10,000 counts/revolution on the spindle, and 0.1-um resolution on the cross slide. These are both conventional commercial axes that we have intentionally over- Fig. 1. Schematic cross section of the prototype turning machine. Fig. 3. Photograph of the rotary arm carrying a polycrystalline diamond tool at its tip. The arm is approximately 80-mm long. Fig. 4. Experimental open-loop plant transfer function from amplifier current command in volts (scaled at 3 A/V) to tool position in radians. Fig. 7. Calibration test for arm length and tool axis offset angle (not to scale). The prototype turning machine is still under develop- ment, but we are actively producing test parts and have Fig. 6. Calibration test for spindle and cross-slide orthogonality (not to scale). Fig. 8. Schematic drawing showing a calibration procedure for finding the arm length and cross-slide index location. The cross slide is held fixed while the tool arm sweeps through the part. This creates a toroidal shape that we measure with a CMM (or ultimately a second on-machine gauge). some preliminary performance results to report. The re- quired trajectories are largely sinusoidal; Fig. 9 shows two examples of these. The upper trace is a 10-mm peak-to-peak trajectory followed at 50 Hz, and the lower is 100 microns at 500 Hz. Both of these produce an equivalent 50 g translational acceleration at the tool tip. An advantage of following sinusoidal trajectories is that error motions are strongly concentrated at harmonics of the fundamental frequency. The higher- order harmonics are generated by such nonlinearities as static friction and motor cogging. Therefore, we are using adaptive feed- forward cancellation (a specific implementation of the more general class of repetitive controllers) to reduce the following errors [8]. Fig. 10 shows the frequency com- ponents of the following error to a 50-Hz, 5-mm peak- to-peak waveform before and after the application of Fig. 9. Experimental open-loop plant transfer function from amplifier current command in volts (scaled at 3 A/V) to tool posiiton in radians. Overlaid curves are for varying drive amplitude. References Fig. 10. Frequency spectrum of the following error to a 50-Hz sinusoidal trajectory before and after the application of repetitive control. Note the attenuation of the fundamental frequency. The remaining harmonics are not attenuated by this single-frequency algorithm. Fig. 11 shows an example of the tool error motion during actual cutting of a flat lens. The data are from a CR39 lens (an acrylic material commonly used in opthalmics) turned at 4000 rpm with a feedrate of 20 m/rev and a 0.5-mm depth of cut. This trace shows an rms position error of 0.63 wm, and the frequency spectrum of the error shows it to be dominated by components at the tool axis controller cross- over frequency and at the structural resonant frequencies of the tool arm. Fig. 11. Tool position error recorded during cutting of a CR39 flat at 4000 rpm, 20 pm/rev feedrate, and 0.5-mm depth of cut.
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