Volumetric error identification for CNC machine tool based on multi-body system and vector diagonal measurement

To reduce the influence of the geometric error on machining precision of CNC machine, a new method based on multi-body system theory and the laser sequential step diagonal vector measurement method to distinguish the geometric errors of CNC machine tool was presented. Firstly geometric errors modeling of CNC machine tool based on multi-body system theory was established. Then laser sequential step diagonal vector measurement method was introduced. Finally comparison experiments of the directly traditional method and the laser vector diagonal measurement method were done, besides, error compensation experiment of CNC machine tool was done. The results show that the new method combined multi-body system theory and laser sequential step diagonal vector measurement method is feasible to distinguish the geometric errors and after compensation machine accuracy is improved by 63%.