An interference determination method for machine tools which determines whether or not there will be interference between elements that move relative to each other, the method including: a setting procedure for setting a machine tool model obtained by combining the shape model of each of the elements including a work model corresponding to the work; a measurement procedure for measuring the position of the work attached to the work attachment part; a correction procedure for acquiring, at a predetermined timing, the position of the work measured in the measurement procedure, and correcting the machine tool model set in the setting procedure; and a determination procedure for determining whether or not there will be interference between the elements on the basis of the machine tool model corrected in the correction procedure.

An electromagnetic immunity test system includes a data acquisition and control device, a linear module, an electromagnetic disturbance simulator, and an upper computer. The data acquisition and control device is in a data connection to the linear module, the electromagnetic disturbance simulator, and the upper computer. The linear module includes a grating ruler; and the linear module is disposed on the numerical control machine tool to measure location data of the sliding table of the numerical control machine tool and transmit the location data to the data acquisition and control device. The electromagnetic disturbance simulator is configured to generate and transmit an electromagnetic signal to the numerical control system. The data acquisition and control device is configured to read the location data in real time and transfer the real-time location data to the upper computer.

An interference checking device 1 checks, during machining using an NC machine tool 20, interference between structures of the NC machine tool 20, a tool and a workpiece, and includes an interference check processing unit 2 virtually moving models and checking the occurrence of interference based on a position control signal from a numerical controller 30, and an operation effect degree evaluating unit 6 evaluating the degree of an effect of an operation on a possibility of the occurrence of interference. When a predetermined operation is performed during machining of a workpiece following a first workpiece, the interference check processing unit 2 moves the models at intervals determined based on the degree of the effect evaluated by the operation effect degree evaluating unit 6.

A control device according to the present disclosure comprises: a command analysis unit that analyzes the block of a processing program; a distribution processing unit that generates a distributed movement for each distribution period on the basis of the analysis result of the command analysis unit and calculates the position of a motion part, the position being updated according to the distributed movement; and an interference determination unit that determines the presence or absence of an interference between the motion part and an interfering object on the basis of a prohibited motion amount that is calculated by an interference check device on the basis of the position and is a distance for which a movement from the position of the motion part may cause an interference. If it is determined that an interference may occur, the movement of the motion part is stopped.

An object interference checking technique using height maps, for machine tooling and other applications. A CAD model of a workpiece or other obstacle is converted to a height map defining obstacle height above a plane of a reference frame for each cell of a grid. A machine tool center point path is then transformed to the same reference frame. Interference checking is performed by comparing a height coordinate of each transformed tool path check point to the height map value for a corresponding grid cell. Any interference that is detected is addressed by defining new path points with increased height coordinate to replace the interference-critical path points. An entire tool can be interference checked by creating a bottom-up height map of the tool and comparing each pixel of the tool height map against the corresponding grid cell of the obstacle height map.

A numerical control apparatus 3 comprises: a pulse generation unit 34 that moves a plurality of machine elements of a machine tool 2 along a plurality of control axes on the basis of a movement pulse for the machine tool 2; an interference checking unit 36 that performs interference checking calculation for a plurality of interference-checking subject sets; and an interference checking assistance device 5 that assists the interference checking calculation. The interference checking assistance device 5 comprises: a first storage unit 51 that stores machine element-control axis linkage information; a second storage unit 52 that stores individual axis subordinate relationship information; and a checking subject set extraction unit 54a that, on the basis of the movement pulse, the machine element-control axis linkage information, and the individual axis subordinate relationship information, extracts one or more checking subject sets from among all combinations of the machine elements.