G. Moroni et al., KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHOD FOR TOUCH PROBE CONFIGURATION IN AN AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM, Journal of materials processing technology, 76(1-3), 1998, pp. 153-160
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10
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Material Science","Engineering, Manufacturing","Engineering, Industrial
Coordinate measuring machine (CMM) dimensional inspection is an integr
al part of modern manufacturing processes, used to control the product
ion quality of mechanical workpieces. An automatic planning system, li
nking CAD with CMM, can increase inspection efficiency and effectivene
ss, reducing or eliminating human influence. Developing a computer aid
ed inspection planning (CAIP) system involves interpretation of part d
esign (geometry and tolerance specifications), representation of inspe
ction actions and their effects on the parts, reasoning about the effe
cts of sequence of such actions, controlling the search and data manip
ulation, as well as determining details of inspection and programming
code for CMMs. In this way it is possible to automatize the different
steps involved in a dimensional inspection: determining the measuring
points, selecting inspection devices and sensors, determining a detail
ed inspection sequence, etc. Touch probe selection is one critical ste
p for inspection to be carried out on a coordinate measuring machine.
The present paper reports the preliminary study and the prototypical r
ealisation of an expert system to generate touch probe configurations.
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