On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:59:33 +0000
Herzog Raoul <[email protected]> wrote:

> dear Andrew,
> 
> thanks for your positive feedback.
> 
> There were many reasons for us to develop OpenCN :
> 
> 1) of course scientific curiosity  ...  I'm working for ~8 years in this field
> 
> 2) but, more important, I had and have customers having problems with surface 
> quality as feedrate increases.
> I'm living in the "watchmaking" western part of Switzerland  :-)
> We found out that the cause of the bad surface quality problem stems from the 
> vibrational behaviour of the machine.
> And we started to develop special trajectory planning algorithms coded in 
> Matlab for *precalculating* the setpoint values.
> It turned out, that the machining time with our algorithms was ~5 times lower 
> compared to a high end CNC, while keeping the same surface quality.
> But then ...  very difficult to get a commercial CNC manufacturer interested 
> in  ... an industrialization seemed difficult.
> We decided to make the important step from "offline precalculation" of 
> setpoint values to online calculation as any CNC does.

As control theory is a common problem I work with I am rather interested in 
these precalculations? Some kind of feed forward?


Regard Nicklas


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