一种基于点搜索的叶轮清根轨迹生成方法(英文)

清根区域的加工质量严重影响着叶轮的工作性能。为了快速地规划出清根加工刀位轨迹并获得较好的表面加工质量,提出了一种基于点搜索的叶轮清根轨迹生成方法。本文中的清根加工主要包括利用球头刀对自由曲面叶轮进行单刀清根和多刀清根。对于单刀清根,刀心位置通过判断其是否满足距离准则来确定。在确定了搜索方向和追踪方向后,借助于点搜索算法,得到所有切触点,刀位点以及清根边界,从而生成刀位轨迹。基于单刀清根的原理,提出了一种分层多刀清根的方法,清根刀具半径小于清根圆角设计半径。使用一系列中间虚拟刀具将清根区域分成若干层,给定最后一层的残留高度,然后计算出所有刀位轨迹。最后给出了仿真实例,结果证明了所提方法的可行性。

Tool Path Generation for Clean-up Machining of Impeller by Point-searching Based Method

Machining quality of clean-up region has a strong influence on the performances of the impeller. In order to plan clean-up tool paths rapidly and obtain good finish surface quality, an efficient and robust tool path generation method is presented, which employs an approach based on point-searching. The clean-up machining mentioned in this paper is pencil-cut and multilayer fillet-cut for a free-form model with a ball-end cutter. For pencil-cut, the cutter center position can be determined via judging whether it satisfies the distance requirement. After the searching direction and the tracing direction have been determined, by employing the point-searching algorithm with the idea of dichotomy, all the cutter contact (CC) points and cutter location (CL) points can be found and the clean-up boundaries can also be defined rapidly. Then the tool path is generated. Based on the main concept of pencil-cut, a multilayer fillet-cut method is proposed, which utilizes a ball-end cutter with its radius less than the design radius of clean-up region. Using a sequence of intermediate virtual cutters to divide the clean-up region into several layers and given a cusp-height tolerance for the final layer, then the tool paths for all layers are calculated. Finally, computer implementation is also presented in this paper, and the result shows that the proposed method is feasible.