Electrical discharge machining (EDM) has the capability of machining all conductive materials regardless of hardness, and has the ability to deal with complex shapes. However, the speed and accuracy of conventional EDM are limited by probability and efficiency of the electrical discharges. To improve the machining speed and accuracy, we developed a 3-DOF controlled, high-speed, high-precision, magnetic/piezoelectric hybrid drive actuator. For the actuator, a voice coil motor type of magnetic bearing having a positioning stroke of a few millimeters is used to control the motion of an electrode in the thrust direction in order to speedily maintain a suitable distance from the workpiece. Moreover, two piezoelectric elements having high response speed and high precision are used to achieve the vibration of the electrode in the radial direction in order to immediately remove the debris between the electrode and the workpiece. The positioning performance of the actuator is evaluated through experiments, and the experimental results show that the actuator possesses a positioning resolution of 1μm, a bandwidth of 120Hz and a positioning stroke of 2mm in the thrust direction, and a positioning resolution of 0.05μm, a positioning stroke of 10μm at 1000Hz in the radial directions.
In conventional Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM), the speed and accuracy are limited by probability and efficiency of the electrical discharges. To improve the machining speed and accuracy, we developed a high-speed, high-precision, 3-DOF controlled local actuator. For the actuator, a voice coil motor type of magnetic bearing having a positioning stroke of a few millimeters is used to control the motion of an electrode in the thrust direction in order to speedily maintain a suitable distance from the workpiece. Moreover, two piezoelectric devices having high response speed and high precision are used to achieve the vibration of the electrode in the radial directions to immediately remove the debris between the electrode and the workpiece. The positioning performance of the actuator was evaluated through experiments, and the experimental results show that the actuator possesses a positioning resolution of the order of micrometer, a bandwidth greater than 120Hz and a positioning stroke of 2mm.
Abstract. The objective of this research is to achieve high-speed electrical discharge machining (EDM) of small holes using a high-speed, high-precision, 3-DOF controlled, magnetic/piezoelectric hybrid drive actuator. In this paper, the proposed actuator was attached to the conventional electrical discharge machine, and the increase in the machining speed using the actuator was experimentally confirmed. The relationships between the machining speed, the amplitude and the frequency of the electrode vibration were discussed. Experimental results show that the use of the proposed actuator can speedily adjust the distance between the electrode and the workpiece, and the machining speed was increased by 138% compared with the conventional EDM. Moreover, the machining speed using the actuator also was increased as the changes of the amplitude and the frequency of the electrode vibration, and it was increased by 76% compared to without the electrode vibration.
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