CONCEPT OF REPRESENTATION OF PROCESS COMPLEX MANIPULATOR FOR SURFACE PROCESSING - AS COORDINATE-MEASURING MACHINE

Abstract

In the conditions of modern mechanical engineering, innovative automation technology is an effective option for using technological equipment for surface treatment of parts of various configurations by plasma treatment.  Presented in the form of manipulators with automation software, technical automation tools are designed to implement the functions of controlling the spatial positions of structural units and elements of the mechanism.  In the article, based on the specification of the issues of surface treatment of parts of various configurations by plasma treatment, a set of scientific views on the representation of a robotic device of functionally interconnected means of technological equipment for surface treatment, implementing the activities of a coordinate measuring machine with extensive functionality for the movement of working 
bodies of manipulators, the selection and use of a generalized class of technological coordinate system, suggesting the possibility of additional input into the function of an automatic manipulator of the third linear degree of freedom in the production of parts of complex configurations other than bodies of rotation. The use of coordinate measuring machines in production activities provides ample opportunities for the operational measurement of geometric parameters of simple and complex parts, including those whose measurements by well-established generally accepted methods