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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Haas Automation, Inc., Oxnard, CA (US);
Jacob Steven Aldridge, Camarillo, CA (US);
HAAS AUTOMATION, INC., Oxnard, CA (US);
Abstract
A conveyor in a machine tool system is dynamically controlled. A volume of material to be conveyed by the conveyor is iteratively determined. During each iteration, a current position of a tool is determined. An intersection of a tool model representing the tool at the current position and a workpiece model representing a workpiece is determined and a nominal volume of material removed from the workpiece by the tool based on the intersection of the tool model and the workpiece model is determined. The volume of material to be conveyed is updated based on the nominal volume of material removed from the workpiece and an operating state of the conveyor. The operating state of the conveyor is controlled based on the updated volume of material to be conveyed.