A method and system for adapting a CNC machine tool path from a nominal workpiece shape to an actual workpiece shape. The method includes defining a grid of feature points on a nominal workpiece shape, where the feature points encompass an area around the machine tool path but do not necessarily include points on the machine tool path. A probe is used to detect locations of the feature points on an actual workpiece. A space mapping function is computed as a transformation from the nominal feature points to the actual feature points, and the function is applied to the nominal tool path to compute a new tool path. The new tool path is used by the CNC machine to operate on the actual workpiece. The feature points are used to characterize the three dimensional shape of the working surface of the actual workpiece, not just a curve or outline.

A numerical controller reads out an instruction block included in a machining program, obtains machining information indicating a feature of a tool path instructed by the read instruction block, and stores a machining conditions related to a movement of a tool in association with the obtained machining information. Further, the machining information obtained together with the instruction block is determined, and a machining condition in the movement of the tool instructed by the instruction block is changed based on the determined machining information and the stored machining condition.

A method and apparatus for customizing tool paths. A reference tool path is identified for a tool based on an expected shape for a surface of an object. Offset data is generated for a plurality of sample points identified for use in evaluating the surface of the object. The offset data identifies a difference between the expected shape for the surface of the object and an actual shape of the surface of the object. The reference tool path is modified using the offset data to form a modified tool path for the tool.

Methods and systems for wire-electro discharge machining of components are described. The method comprises machining a first component by moving a wire-EDM electrode along a first set of cutting paths associated with a plurality of cutting passes, the cutting paths determined based on a desired profile shape of the component, obtaining a cutting parameter of the first component post-machining, determining a first modified cutting path for a second component based on the cutting parameter, and machining the second component by moving the wire-EDM electrode along a second set of cutting paths associated with the plurality of cutting passes, the second set of cutting paths comprising the first modified cutting path.

A reception section 102 receives a classification of a shape of a target object for a case in which a robot is to perform an action along the target object. An instruction section 104 instructs a user with a number of training points identified for each classification of the shape as training points for training positions of a specific location of the robot to perform the action. An acquisition section 106 acquires positional information of the specific location of the robot as trained by manipulation by the user according to the instruction. A estimation section 108 estimates a shape of the target object based on the acquired positional information. A generation section 110 generates a path for the robot to perform the action along the target object based on the estimated shape of the target object.

A control device for a wire electric discharge machine includes: a shape analysis portion which looks ahead a machining program, and analyzes a machined shape of a workpiece; a machining path creation portion which creates machining paths of identical circular arc shape offsetting from a machined shape analyzed, wherein the offset value differs for the machining paths, and shape of a corner part are identical circular arc shape; a machining path creation portion which creates machining paths of concentric circle shape offsetting from a machined shape analyzed, wherein the offset value differs for the machining paths, and shape of a corner part are concentric circle shape; and a machining path selection portion which selects either of the machining paths of identical circular arc shape and concentric circle shape, based on at least one among the machining program, machined shape analyzed, and the machining paths of identical circular arc shape and concentric circle shape.

A numerical controller, which can handle information on a use tool, calculates the shape of a workpiece being machined, based on an input machining program, shape information of the use tool, shape information of a unmachined workpiece, and a tool trajectory, and sets, as a movable range of the tool, a range in which the tool never contacts the workpiece being machined, based on the calculated shape of the workpiece being machined, if manual operation is performed during machining.

A method and system for adapting a CNC machine tool path from a nominal workpiece shape to an actual workpiece shape. The method includes defining a grid of feature points on a nominal workpiece shape, where the feature points encompass an area around the machine tool path but do not necessarily include points on the machine tool path. A probe is used to detect locations of the feature points on an actual workpiece. A space mapping function is computed as a transformation from the nominal feature points to the actual feature points, and the function is applied to the nominal tool path to compute a new tool path. The new tool path is used by the CNC machine to operate on the actual workpiece. The feature points are used to characterize the three dimensional shape of the working surface of the actual workpiece, not just a curve or outline.

In a method for correcting a target position, a three-dimensional matrix is formed by piling up, in a Z-direction at predetermined intervals, matrix planes each formed by continuously connecting, in X- and Y-directions, quadrangular areas that are parallel to an XY-plane and each have a reference point, and a target position of a work robot designated in an operation space of the three-dimensional matrix is corrected. In this method, a first block and a second block are set which are individually contiguous with the specific block, and the target position is corrected based on respective reference points in the upper area and the lower area of the specific block, the first block, and the second block and the measured deviation amount of the work robot from the reference points.

Methods and systems for wire-electro discharge machining of components are described. The method comprises machining a first component by moving a wire-EDM electrode along a first set of cutting paths associated with a plurality of cutting passes, the cutting paths determined based on a desired profile shape of the component, obtaining a cutting parameter of the first component post-machining, determining a first modified cutting path for a second component based on the cutting parameter, and machining the second component by moving the wire-EDM electrode along a second set of cutting paths associated with the plurality of cutting passes, the second set of cutting paths comprising the first modified cutting path.