Cyber-Physical Test Environment for the Identification of Interacting Wear Effects in Feed Axes

Abstract

For a comprehensive optimization and control of production processes, cyber-physical systems are necessary to include machines' time-dependent properties. These wear effects in machine tools, especially the feed axes, can significantly influence the process quality and are a steady research focus. However, the interaction of wear effects between different feed axes has received little attention. Especially models that represent the combined wear influence of different interacting feed axes on the control parameters and machine dynamics hold great potential. To close this knowledge gap, this paper proposes a cyber-physical test environment to identify the interaction of wear effects in feed axes. For this test environment, the relevant boundary conditions of different feed axes in machine tools and their systematic interaction are presented. Through these conditions, a physical test setup is derived and, analogous to this, a virtual model is created. This holistic approach represents the physical and virtual interaction between different components.