Surface form inspection with contact coordinate measurement: a review

Y Shen, J Ren, N Huang, Y Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Parts with high-quality freeform surfaces have been widely used in industries, which require
strict quality control during the manufacturing process. Among all the industrial inspection …

Sweep scan path planning for efficient freeform surface inspection on five-axis CMM

Z Zhou, Y Zhang, K Tang - Computer-Aided Design, 2016 - Elsevier
Compared with the traditional 3-axis coordinate measuring machine (CMM), a 5-axis CMM
equipped with the capability of continues sweep scanning can provide much denser data …

Sweep scan path planning for five-axis inspection of free-form surfaces

Y Zhang, Z Zhou, K Tang - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2018 - Elsevier
Five-axis inspection machine is an emerging powerful means to inspect the product quality
of free-form surfaces in mechanical manufacturing. However, the inspection efficiency is …

Orientation-point relation based inspection path planning method for 5-axis OMI system

Y Li, L Zeng, K Tang, C Xie - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2020 - Elsevier
Inspection path planning methods are of great importance to OMI systems. Most researches
only optimize the inspection path length. However, the number of probe orientations (NPOs) …

Efficient five-axis scanning-inspection path planning for complex freeform surfaces

Z Li, D He, X Li, X Deng, P Hu, J Hao, Y Hou… - Robotics and Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Freeform surface inspection is vital in manufacturing-related processes, and the newly
emerged five-axis continuous sweep scanning technology offers to be a powerful means for …

Shape-adaptive CNC milling for complex contours on deformed thin-walled revolution surface parts

J Xu, L Xu, Y Li, Y Sun - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2020 - Elsevier
Thin-walled revolution surface parts are extensively used in various fields. Owing to their low
rigidity, there is an inevitable deformation caused by the blank forming and clamping …

An image-based algorithm for generating smooth and interference-free five-axis sweep scanning path

Y Shen, W Zhang, L Zhu, Y Zhang - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2021 - Elsevier
Five-axis continuous scanning inspection is an emerging technology in measuring free-form
surfaces. Compared to the traditional three-axis scanning inspection, the five-axis …

Interference-free inspection path generation for impeller blades using an on-machine probe

W Li, G Wang, G Zhang, Q Li… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspecting an impeller is a challenging task in manufacturing automation due to its free-form
surface and overlapping and twisted blades. Existing inspection method by a Coordinate …

Distributed particle swarm optimization for the planning of time-optimal and interference-free five-axis sweep scanning path

Y Shen, W Zhang, Y Zhang, N Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Five-axis sweep scanning is an emerging technology, which can achieve precise and
efficient contact measurement. However, existing five-axis scanning path planning …

Automatic generation of efficient and interference-free five-axis scanning path for free-form surface inspection

P Hu, H Zhou, J Chen, C Lee, K Tang, J Yang… - Computer-Aided …, 2018 - Elsevier
As a new contacting surface inspection technology, five-axis continuous sweep scanning
enables a much higher inspection efficiency compared with the traditional three-axis point …