A novel method to physically understand the inverse kinematics of a 5-axis machine tool is presented based on visual observation and manually jogging the machine to the handshake position where… Click to show full abstract
A novel method to physically understand the inverse kinematics of a 5-axis machine tool is presented based on visual observation and manually jogging the machine to the handshake position where the tool and a real material Cutter Location (CL) vector merge. This creates a better physical understanding and can also be used to verify the mathematical formula in the exact computations. The Denavit Hartenberg (DH) method is applied to the 5-axis machine and analyzed. Finally, two new simplified methods are developed that minimize the number of frames and simplifies the computations with minimal number of parameters.
               
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