Abstract
Non-axisymmetric aspheric machining is increasingly important in photoelectric industry. The machining process requires an external feeding device mounted to a machine tool to achieve fast-tool servo (FTS) function. In this study, a piezoelectric (PZT, Lead zirconate titanate) FTS was used to perform non-axisymmetric aspheric machining by control methods. In the beginning, system identification of the PZT tool holder was conducted to obtain the mathematical model of the system and then the simulations were performed for various controllers, including the PID (Proportional-integral-derivative), sliding mode control (SMC), non-singular terminal sliding mode control (NTSMC), and adaptive NTSMC. The simulation results showed that the NTSMC and the adaptive NTSMC had excellent control performances with the tracking errors of 0.0 and 3.1 nm, respectively. Then, control practices without machining were performed with the PV (Peak-to-valley) tracking errors of 0.96 μm, 0.77 μm, and 0.95 μm obtained by the PID controller, NTSMC, and adaptive NTSMC, correspondingly. The large PV errors were found due to the low sampling rate of position commands. Finally, experiments of non-axisymmetric aspheric machining with the implemented controllers were performed for a workpiece of oxygen-free copper (OFC) having 5 mm diameter. The measured results of the machined surfaces were with the PV form errors of 7.2 μm, 2.8 μm, and 3.8 μm in corresponding to the usual machining, using NTSMC and adaptive NTSMC. The effectiveness of the implemented controllers was demonstrated, and the NTSMC showed the best performance. Future works are to examine the repeatability of various controllers with a large hardware memory size and improved environment.
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