Abstract
Hydrostatic guideways have been employed as an essential precision engineering element in numerous applications requiring high precision motions and positioning with substantial loading capacity. Both R&D (research and development) and the industrial application communities have the consensus that hydrostatic guideways offer excellent operation performance especially in terms of high stiffness and damping characteristics, but also its high loading capacity combined with excellent motion accuracy. However, no comprehensive review on hydrostatic guideways has been reported yet. To bridging this gap, this paper aims to present an informative literature survey of research and engineering developments in relation to hydrostatic guideways, by describing their basic working principles and application in precision machines, defining and characterizing hydrostatic guideways concepts, briefly reviewing the motion error modelling and compensation types, discussing the influencing characteristics, and further providing discussions on new R&D challenges and opportunities, particularly into scientific understanding of hydrostatic guideways and their advanced future and precision engineering applications.
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