A manufacturing system for producing airplane structural components, including a drilling unit for producing bores in a material assembly made of at least two material plies for the purposes of inserting fastening elements and having a measuring unit for ascertaining geometry parameters for a previously produced bore. The measuring unit includes measuring electronics with an optical sensor element, a measuring optical unit and a measuring lance. The measuring unit produces an optical measurement beam that emerges from the measuring lance via the measuring optical unit and that is incident on a measurement point on the respective bore inner surface. A measurement movement between measuring lance and material assembly is provided in a measurement cycle and the measuring unit cyclically ascertains distance values to various measurement points at a scanning rate during the measurement movement and ascertains at least one geometry parameter for the respective bore from the distance values.

A method for measuring geometric errors of a numerical control turntable based on a four-station laser tracer system includes: establishing a self-calibration coordinate system and calibrating positions of tracking interferometers; respectively placing each of target lenses at three non-coplanar points that are above the numerical control turntable and keep certain distances from the numerical control turntable, controlling the numerical control turntable to rotate at a certain angular interval .sub.j, and based on positions of the tracking interferometers being known after calibration, solving coordinates of each of measurement points in the self-calibration coordinate system using a non-linear least square method; establishing a turntable coordinate system; perform a conversion between the turntable coordinate system and the self-calibration coordinate system; separating six geometric errors of the numerical control turntable using spatial position errors of the three points at a same position and using the linear least squares method.

A testbed device includes high performance actuators, a video microscopy system and a plurality of high resolution, throughput sensors adapted or configured for collecting data that may be used in predictive modelling of machine processes.

A tool device (1) for machining a workpiece (4) by cutting, milling, drilling or grinding, comprising a sensor (20) for detecting a condition of the tool device (1) during machining, wherein the sensor (20) is connectable to a receiving unit (40), which transmits data to an analysis unit (50) for analyzing the received data. The sensor (20) is configured as a fiber optic sensor (20) comprising at least one optical fiber (26) providing an incident optical path (22) and a reflected optical path (24) for a light beam emitted by a connectable light source (30) and with a distal end thereof lying in a surface (14, 74) of the tool device (1) such that the optical path length can be measured.

The present invention provides a multi-degree-of-freedom error measurement system for rotary axes and the method thereof. By producing a first ray, a second ray, and a third ray, the multi-facet reflector and the axicon disposed on an axis average line can receive the first, the second, and the third rays, respectively, for producing a reflective ray, a refractive ray, a first emitted ray, and a second emitted ray. Thereby, errors of the axicon in a plurality of degrees of freedom caused by shift or vibration of the axis average line, such as the x-axis radial error, the y-axis radial error, the axial error, the x-axis tilt error, the tilt error for the y-axis, and the angular alignment error for rotation can be measured.

A measurement, calibration and compensation system for machine tool includes a first positioning base; two first speckle image sensors for sensing speckle positions of an object holding unit at a first XY plane and a first XZ plane of the first positioning base before and after the machine tool is started for machining; a second positioning base; two second speckle image sensors for sensing speckle positions of a cutter holding unit at a second XY plane and a second YZ plane of the second positioning base before and after the machine tool is started for machining. Thus, the thermal expansion at all axes of the machine tool can be measured in a simplified and low-cost way, and the absolute positioning coordinates of all axes of the machine tool can be calibrated in real time to avoid reduced positioning accuracy due to the thermal expansion of the multi-axis machine tool.

A measurement, calibration and compensation system for machine tool includes a first positioning base; two first speckle image sensors for sensing speckle positions of an object holding unit at a first XY plane and a first XZ plane of the first positioning base before and after the machine tool is started for machining; a second positioning base; two second speckle image sensors for sensing speckle positions of a cutter holding unit at a second XY plane and a second YZ plane of the second positioning base before and after the machine tool is started for machining. Thus, the thermal expansion at all axes of the machine tool can be measured in a simplified and low-cost way, and the absolute positioning coordinates of all axes of the machine tool can be calibrated in real time to avoid reduced positioning accuracy due to the thermal expansion of the multi-axis machine tool.

A Cartesian numerically controlled machine tool for high-precision machining includes a footing, a first part with first movement elements for the movement of a second part with respect to a first controlled axis, a second part with second movement elements for the movement of a third part with respect to a second controlled axis, and a third part with third movement elements for the movement of a machining head with respect to a third controlled axis. The Cartesian machine tool further includes a machining head, and, on board, optical elements for detecting and monitoring the position of at least one reference nodal point for each of one or more of the controlled axes with respect to a reference that is integral with a part of the machine tool.

The invention relates to a manufacturing system for producing airplane structural components, comprising a drilling unit (2) for producing bores (3) in a material assembly (4) made of at least two material plies (4a, 4b) for the purposes of inserting fastening elements, in particular rivet elements, and comprising a measuring unit (5) for ascertaining geometry parameters for a previously produced bore (3). It is proposed that the measuring unit (5) comprises measuring electronics (6) with an optical sensor element (7), a measuring optical unit (8) and a measuring lance (9), that the measuring unit (5) produces an optical measurement beam (13) for ascertaining a distance (10) between the measuring lance (9) and a measurement point (11) on the respective bore inner is surface (12), said optical measurement beam emerging from the measuring lance (9) via the measuring optical unit (8) and being incident on the measurement point (11) on the respective bore inner surface (12), that a measurement movement between measuring lance (9) and material assembly (4) is provided in a measurement cycle and the measuring unit (5) cyclically ascertains distance values to various measurement points (11) at a scanning rate during the measurement movement and ascertains at least one geometry parameter for the respective bore (3) from the distance values.

Provided is a machining device capable of precisely measuring a shape of a machined workpiece. The machining device includes: a table configured to hold a workpiece on a holding surface perpendicular to a Z-axis; a machining unit configured to machine the workpiece on the table; an imaging unit configured to image a surface of the workpiece using an optical interferometry; a drive unit configured to move the imaging unit along a direction of the Z-axis relative to the table; and an imaging control unit configured to control the drive unit and the imaging unit to image the surface of the workpiece on the table through scanning in the direction of the Z-axis. The imaging control unit picks up an image of the surface of the workpiece through scanning in the direction of the Z-axis, in accordance with an imaging condition determined for each site to be imaged.