Article
Engineering, Industrial
Maximilian Benker, Michael F. Zaeh
Summary: Ball screw feed drives play a crucial role in machine tools, and monitoring their condition is essential. This paper presents a data-driven approach that can accurately assess the condition of unseen ball screws, providing a new method for monitoring the status of ball screw drives.
CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Mengtao Xu, Changyou Li, Hongzhuang Zhang, Zhendong Liu, Yimin Zhang
Summary: This paper introduces a dynamic model of a ball screw feed system, focusing on the dynamic characteristics of the worktable under combined loads. The study shows that nonlinear joints and coupling effects lead to rich and diverse nonlinear phenomena in the worktable response, with nonlinear behavior significantly influenced by changes in excitation, platform position, screw length, preload, and damping.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Daisuke Kono, Tomoyuki Osumi
Summary: Linear ball guideways are widely used in machine tool drive systems. This study proposes a practical model of rolling resistance for smooth feed motion design. The validity of the model is experimentally verified and methods to reduce resistance fluctuation are identified.
PRECISION ENGINEERING-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Petr Hadraba, Jiunn-Jyh Wang, Zdenek Hadas
Summary: Linear ball guideways (LBGs) have advantages for precise positioning control of machine tools. However, the ball-groove contact behavior leads to poor dynamic compliance and chatter stability of the guideway. This study presents two static models to predict the stiffness of LBG under different cutting loads, and uses a dynamic substructuring cosimulation method to analyze the effects of structural deformation. The results show that this method provides sufficient estimation of the nonlinear behavior of machine tools based on LBG.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Jiancheng Yang, Changyou Li, Mengtao Xu, Tianzhi Yang, Yimin Zhang
Summary: A novel kinetic model is established to investigate the dynamic characteristics of a ball screw feed system considering the thermal deformation of bearing joints, screw-nut joints, and screw shaft. The vibration characteristics and motion states of the system are analyzed, indicating that the amplitude increases when thermal deformation is considered. The system exhibits period-doubling motion, quasi-periodic motion, and chaotic motion with the change of frequency. The influence of different parameters on the system's vibration characteristics is also discussed.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Shuyun Jiang, Yongjin Zhu
Summary: This study establishes a flexible model that takes into account the elastic deformation outside the Hertz contact zone for the axial stiffness of the ball screw feed drive system. The proposed model is found to be more accurate compared to the conventional rigid model, and the method to analyze the elastic deformation outside the Hertz contact zone is proven to be feasible.
JOURNAL OF TRIBOLOGY-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Huayang Wu, Jiejing Li, Haixu Liu, Dunwen Zuo
Summary: This paper investigates the time-varying characteristics of the heat source in a ball screw nut pair and the interaction law between the structure and thermal effects. A thermoelastic coupling model and a contact deformation analysis method based on the plane strain model are proposed. The study reveals the variation law of contact deformation between the ball and raceway under thermal influence. Experimental verification demonstrates that, considering thermal effects, the contact relationship undergoes four stages and the strength of the heat source shows an oscillating decrease. Thermal deformation compensates for contact deformation under specific conditions. The thermoelastic coupling effect of the ball screw nut pair also affects the preheating time of the ball screw feed system.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Dongxu Su, Yang Li, Wanhua Zhao, Huijie Zhang
Summary: A novel thermal error modeling method for the ball screw feed system is proposed based on the FEM in this paper, and the accuracy of the model is validated through experiments.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Wei Zhang, Di Zhu, Zhiwen Huang, Yidan Zhu, Jianmin Zhu
Summary: In this paper, a novel method based on the digital twin dynamic model is proposed to identify the dynamic parameters of rolling joints. By constructing models and using deep neural network models to map the relationship between dynamic parameters and natural frequencies, the dynamic parameters are identified through an optimization model. The experimental results show that the proposed method is feasible, effective, and has greater accuracy.
ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Alexander Verl, Christoph Hinze
Summary: This paper presents a nonlinear position controller based on sliding-mode control to increase the dynamics of ball screw drives. The controller is experimentally validated on a ball screw axis and shown to improve the controller bandwidth from 8 Hz to 15.9 Hz compared to proportional position control with feedforward. The mean absolute tracking error is reduced by 24% under high performance cutting forces, and the controller exhibits excellent robust performance with only 2.7% degradation of the tracking error under a 20% variation in model parameters.
CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Automation & Control Systems
Tao Huang, Yueting Kang, Shuangjiang Du, Qian Zhang, Zhihong Luo, Qian Tang, Kaiming Yang
Summary: This paper provides an overview of modeling and control methods for ball screw feed-drive systems, including different modeling approaches and control strategies. It also reviews emerging control issues and methods, such as artificial intelligence, learning control, and data-driven control.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Xiangsheng Gao, Xianrang Zhang, Jingshuo Yang, Zhongtao Fu, Min Wang, Tao Zan
Summary: Ball screw feed systems play a critical role in machine tool operations, and their dynamic characteristics have a direct impact on workpiece machining quality and ball screw reliability. This paper establishes a lateral equivalent dynamic model of ball screw feed systems by considering the bending vibration of the ball screw, nut location, and joints based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The dynamic parameters of joints are identified using the particle swarm optimization algorithm, and the robustness of the model is validated through experiments. The study also investigates the effects of cutting force, bearing clearance, and nut motion on dynamic characteristics through numerical analysis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Berend Denkena, Marc-Andre Dittrich, Hendrik Noske, Dirk Lange, Carolin Benjamins, Marius Lindauer
Summary: This paper presents machine learning-based monitoring approaches for ball screw drive in machine tools. It investigates the potential of automated machine learning for supervised anomaly detection and shows that Auto-Sklearn achieves higher monitoring quality compared to literature approaches. In the absence of fault data, a semi-supervised anomaly detection mode using unified outlier scores is applied and outperforms threshold-based approaches commonly used in industry.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Hessam Kalbasi Shirvani, Yasin Hosseinkhani, Kaan Erkorkmaz
Summary: This paper discusses the suppression of harmonic positioning errors in ball-screw drives using Adaptive Feedforward Cancellation (AFC) method. AFC is shown to effectively suppress harmonic positioning errors from multiple input sources, and a new parameter tuning approach is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the AFC scheme in ball-screw drives.
PRECISION ENGINEERING-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hongliang Liu, Zhaofeng Rao, Ruda Pang, Yaoman Zhang
Summary: The thermal characteristic modeling method proposed in this paper for the ball screw feed system has significant application value in accurately obtaining the temperature field of the feed system.