An identification method for crucial geometric errors of gear form grinding machine tools based on tooth surface posture error model

The identification for crucial geometric errors of gear form grinding machine tools is essential for the later error accurate compensation, but complicated and difficult. To reveal the mapping rules between geometric errors and machining errors, the tool posture error model (TPEM) was first constructed but it failed to consider the effects of grinding process. Hence, the tooth surface posture error model (TSPEM) was established based on the discretization of the grinding trajectory and the calculation of the grinding contact lines. Then the improved Sobol method was performed to analyze the error sensitivity and identify the crucial errors and sensitive components by considering the stochastic and inter-coupling characteristics of geometric errors. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the identified results were compared with that of the Morris method and the modification experiment of crucial errors was conducted. It shows that the tooth surface errors in the delta(y)-direction are reduced by 68.75% for the TSPEM and 43.36% for the TPEM and that the TSPEM is more effective for the identification of crucial geometric errors. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.