Fanuc Corporation

Naoto Sonoda

Yukio Toyozawa

Tadashi Okita

Kenta Yamamoto

Yasusuke Iwashita

Satoshi Ikai

Ryoutarou Tsuneki

Kouki Kameta

Kazuomi Maeda

Yusaku Oho

Ryou Morihashi

Yuusaku Oho

Yukio Toyosawa

Tomohiko Kawai

Makoto Haga

Masato Aochi

Haruhisa Yago

A machine tool control device which reliably divides and discharges chips, and which suppresses damage to a tool by reducing shock when the tool cuts into a workpiece. The machine tool control device causes the tool to rotate and executes a cutting process to move the tool and the workpiece while causing the same to oscillate relative to one another in a feed direction, and is provided with an oscillation command generating unit which generates an oscillation command on the basis of a predetermined oscillation condition. A position and speed control unit controls a motor by superimposing the oscillation command generated by the oscillation command generating unit onto a position command or a position deviation. The oscillation command generating unit changes an oscillation command phase progression method and/or an oscillation command amplitude on the basis of an oscillation phase calculated from on a predetermined oscillation condition, or based on time.

Machine tool control device

A control device calculates a position deviation between a position of a movable member designated by a position command and a measured position of the movable member by a position detector at each sampling period, adds a disturbance signal generated from a phase signal having a predetermined period to a drive signal generated from the position deviation to which an amount of correction is added, causes a motor for driving the movable member to operate based on the drive signal to which the disturbance signal is added, calculates the amount of correction by using a dynamic characteristic compensation filter in such a way as to reduce the position deviation, and changes a configuration of the dynamic characteristic compensation filter in such a way that an evaluation value related to magnitude of the position deviation satisfies a predetermined condition.

Motor control device and motor control computer program

A numerical control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reference speed calculation unit configured to calculate a spindle speed which is a rotation number of the spindle in accordance with a machining program, and a feed speed which is a movement speed of the feed axis in accordance with the machining program; an oscillation command calculation unit configured to calculate an oscillation command, which is a periodic variation component superimposed on a command of the feed axis, based on the spindle speed and the feed speed, as well as an oscillation frequency magnification set in advance; a setting acquisition unit configured to acquire an upper limit value for frequency of the oscillation command; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the frequency of the oscillation command, or adjust at least either of the spindle speed and the oscillation frequency magnification, so that the frequency of the oscillation command does not exceed the upper limit value.

Numerical control device, program recording medium, and control method

A servo controllerincludes: an oscillation command generating unitthat generates an oscillation command for causing the workpiece W and the toolto relatively oscillate; at least one of a position control unitthat generates a position command for causing the workpiece W and the toolto relatively move, a speed control unitthat generates a speed command for causing the workpiece W and the toolto relatively move, and a current control unitthat generates a torque command for driving the plurality of axes; and a gain changing unitthat changes a control gain, in which the oscillation command generating unittransmits a signal outputted when oscillating operation is started to the gain changing unit, and the gain changing unitchanges the control gain.

Servo controller

A numerical control device according to the present invention includes: an upper limit value acquisition unit which acquires an upper limit value for a cutting speed that is a relative speed of the cutting tool to the workpiece; a reference speed calculation unit which calculates a revolution number of the spindle, and a feedrate; an oscillation speed calculation unit which calculates an oscillation speed that is superimposed on the feedrate; a cutting speed calculation unit which calculates the cutting speed based on the revolution number of the spindle, the feedrate and the oscillation speed; and a speed adjustment unit which adjusts at least either one of the revolution number of the spindle and the feedrate, so that a maximum value of the cutting speed calculated by the cutting speed calculation unit does not exceed the upper limit value acquired by the upper limit value acquisition unit.

Numerical control device, program recording medium and control method

An output device with which an operator can understand a progress state of machine learning from evaluation function values is provided. The output device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of evaluation function values which use servo data or are calculated using the servo data from a machine learning device that performs machine learning with respect to a servo control device that controls a servo motor that drives a shaft of a machine tool, a robot, or an industrial machine; and an output unit that outputs the plurality of acquired evaluation function values. The output unit may include a display unit that displays the plurality of evaluation function values on a display screen.

Output device, control device, and evaluation function value output method

To provide a controller for a machine tool capable of shredding chips without use of oscillation during machining by cutting. A controller is for a machine tool used for machining by cutting of a work as a cutting target by means of coordinated motion of multiple axes including at least a spindle axis. The controller comprises: a movement command generation unit that outputs a movement command for cutting the work by moving a cutting tool and the work relative to each other in a machining direction; and a stop determination unit that outputs a stop instruction for intermittently stopping the relative move in the machining direction to the movement command generation unit. The movement command generation unit outputs a movement command for stopping the relative move between the cutting tool and the work in the machining direction based on the stop instruction. The stop determination unit outputs the stop instruction for a period when the spindle axis rotates 360 degrees or more.

Controller for machine tool

A servo control apparatus for a machine that performs machining by causing a plurality of synchronizing axes to operate cooperatively in synchronized relationship with a reference axis, the servo control apparatus comprising: a position detection unit for detecting at least one of the position of the servo motor and the position of a driven body; a position error calculation unit for calculating an error between the position command and the position detected by the position detection unit; a reference axis position acquisition unit for acquiring the positions of a plurality of reference axes; a reference axis selection unit for selecting one reference axis based on a machining condition of the driven body from among the plurality of reference axes whose positions have been acquired; and a learning control unit for performing learning control using an angle synchronization method, based on the error and the position of the selected reference axis.

Servo control apparatus that performs learning control by changing reference axis

A machine learning device acquires, as a label, a command output by a servo control apparatus to a control target device so as to drive and control the control target device. The machine learning device acquires, as input data, an output of the control target device driven based on the command, and constructs a learning model relating to feedforward control for correcting the command, by performing supervised learning by use of a set of the label and the input data serving as teaching data.

Machine learning device, servo control apparatus, servo control system, and machine learning method

The settling time of machine learning is shortened. A machine learning device is configured to perform machine learning related to optimization of coefficients of a transfer function of an IIR filter of a feedforward calculation unit with respect to a servo control device configured to control a servo motor configured to drive an axis of a machine tool, a robot, or an industrial machine using feedforward control by a feedforward calculation unit having the IIR filter. The machine learning device represents a zero-point at which the transfer function of the IIR filter is zero and a pole at which the transfer function diverges infinitely in polar coordinates using a radius r and an angle &#x3b8;, respectively, and searches for and learns, within a predetermined search range, the radius r and the angle &#x3b8; to thereby perform the optimization of the coefficients of the transfer function of the IIR filter.

Machine learning device, control device, and machine learning method

A machine tool controller includes: a servo control unit that generates a positional error based on a difference between a position command for moving a tool and a present position of the tool and generates a drive command for a motor that moves the tool based on the positional error; and a displacement meter that measures a machining surface displacement amount of the workpiece. The servo control unit includes: a compensation amount calculating unit that calculates a shape error of the workpiece with respect to a desired shape for each rotation angle of the workpiece based on the measured machining surface displacement amount and obtains a compensation amount of the positional error based on the calculated shape error of the workpiece; and a first compensation unit that compensates the positional error for each rotation angle of the workpiece based on the calculated compensation amount.

Machine tool controller with learning error compensation

To provide a numerical controller for a machine tool capable of shredding chips efficiently along one path by making oscillating motion involving synchronization between multiple axes and intermittently making cutting-out motion and cutting-in motion. A controller is for a machine tool used for thread cutting of a work as a target of the thread cutting using multiple axes, comprising: a movement command generation unit that generates a movement command for the multiple axes; an oscillation command generation unit that generates an oscillation command for causing a work rotary axis, a tool feed axis, and a radial direction motion axis to make oscillating motion involving synchronization between these three axes, the oscillation command being for causing a cutting tool to make motion of departing from the work while making cutting-out motion on the work and make cutting-in motion on the work intermittently; and an adder that adds the movement command and the oscillation command and outputs a total movement command resulting from the addition.

To efficiently estimate and detect a tool life of a machine tool while lowering an occupation ratio in a data band of a communication line between a machine tool and an upper-level controller, a management apparatus or the like. A machine tool to be managed by a production management apparatus includes a motor for moving one of a workpiece to be machined and a tool for performing a machining operation, an amplifier for driving the motor, a servo controller for controlling the motor via the amplifier based on a notification of a predetermined machining operation, and an NC device for notifying the servo controller of the predetermined machining operation. The servo controller obtains servo data representing a load on the amplifier, performs a first processing for compressing the servo data, and transmits the compressed data to the NC device.

Machine tool, production management system and method for estimating and detecting tool life

A servo control system for controlling a plurality of axes of a machine tool, comprises: a plurality of servo control units for controlling the plurality of axes, respectively; a plurality of learning control units that are provided one each in the plurality of servo control units, and each configured to control a cyclic operation highly precisely; a common learning memory for storing correction data which at least a portion of the plurality of learning control units generates; a memory allocation unit for allocating at least a portion of a memory area in the learning memory to the axis that the learning control unit that generated the correction data controls; and a memory amount notifying unit for notifying the memory allocation unit as to the amount of memory that each of the plurality of learning control units of the respective axes requires.

Servo control system equipped with learning control apparatus having function of optimizing learning memory allocation

A magnetic pole position detecting device for a synchronous motor includes: a storage unit for storing a reference magnetic pole position of the synchronous motor as a predetermined reference; a magnetic pole position detector for detecting the magnetic pole position of the synchronous motor when a predetermined condition is satisfied; and a determination unit for comparing the reference magnetic pole position stored in the storage unit with the magnetic pole position detected by the magnetic pole position detector to determine that detection of the magnetic pole position is abnormal when the difference between the two falls out of a predetermined range.

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Naoto Sonoda