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Inaccuracy compensation and piecewise circular approximation of parametric paths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Vic Beazel
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Dept.Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 (USA)
Edward Red
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Dept.Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 (USA)

Summary

A complication to the process of remotely generating tool paths is that mechanism controllers are typically capable of commanding a robot or machine tool to move along linear and circular arc space segments. This paper considers the decomposition of parametrically described, higher-order curvilinear paths into piecewise linear and circular path segments, thereby reducing the data required to store a higher order path.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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