... factors related to the manufacture, geometry, and kinematics, of such machines, first and second order error models are presented, and followed by a comparative assessment of these models in conjunction with illustrative examples. Furthermore, in order to understand the character and propagation of errors...

... and its associated expressions are far more simple than those of the exact area representation. The errors introduced by the new representation have been analyzed and found to be very small. To increase the accuracy of the expressions for numerical applications, numerical and analytical error-compensation...

... were found to be in better agreement with experiments, yielding prediction errors within 25 percent in most cases. The finite element model also provided an explanation for the observed decrease in the measured holding force at current values beyond a certain threshold. [S1087-1357(00)01503-3...

..., and orientation errors are not exceeded. Second, the interpolator proposed in this paper will be able to avoid excessive angular speeds arising from sampling the curves based on the feedrate alone. [S1087-1357(00)01401-5] Contributed by the Manufacturing Engineering Division for publication in the JOURNAL...

... be easy and convenient to implement. This paper presents a new self-calibration method to calibrate and compensate for robot system kinematic errors. Compared with the traditional calibration methods, this calibration method has several unique features. First, it is not necessary to apply an external...

...Herman C. J. Bruneel The paper studies the intrinsic errors on strain measurements induced by the application of an electrochemical etched square grid through serigraphy. Systematic periodic strains are observed when the etched grid is directly measured before any mechanical deformation...

... an external measuring device. However, this process is often labor-intensive and invasive, and difficult for on-line calibration. In this paper, a systematic way of self-calibrating a hexapod machine tool is introduced. By adding a small number of redundant internal sensors, errors of the hexapod machine tool...