Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) have been widely used in industry in order to determine the form / dimensional tolerances of workpieces with very complicated geometrical shapes. Therefore, CMM is an important tool during the manufacturing and quality control phases. Workpiece to be measured on a CMM is probed via touch trigger probe through its stylus tip. In other words, by virtue of the touch trigger probes CMM can acquire the dimensional data of the workpiece that is to be measured. Therefore the probe has become the most vital and fundamental part of the CMM. In this thesis, a novel type of touch trigger probe / scanning probe is proposed. The proposed probe can also be used as a scanning probe for different applications. The main purpose of this thesis is to develop a novel type of touch trigger / scanning probe that has different kinematic stage and sensing stage than the other probes currently used in the industry. Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors are used for building the sensing stage of the proposed probe. GMR sensors are selected due to their outstanding sensitivity to small disturbances. Furthermore, in order to test the proposed probe / an anvil gauge setup is designed and proposed in this study. Finally, proposed probe is tested on a three-axis computer controlled electrical discharge machine (EDM), and the results acquired from those experiments are discussed.

<p>Koordinatne merne mašine (KMM) su dominantni merni instrumenti u<br />dimenzionalnoj metrologiji. NJihovom upotrebom se može izmeriti<br />bilo koja makro tolerancija označena na tehničkoj dokumentaciji.<br />Tolerancija ravnosti je često prisutna u cilju izvršenja zahtevanih<br />funkcionalnih zahteva radnog predmeta. Istraživanja sprovedena u<br />ovom radu se bave problemom procene greške ravnosti merene na KMM<br />zasnovane na metodi minimalne zone i procene merne nesigurnosti za<br />ovaj merni zadakat. Aksenat je stavljen na primeni Monte Karlo<br />metode kao simulacionog alata za procenu merne nesigurnosti.<br />Razvijena je nova metodologija za procenu greške ravnosti kao i<br />simulacioni model za procenu merne nesigurnosti za ovaj merni<br />zadatak.</p> / <p>Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are dominant measuring<br />instruments in dimensional metrology. These machines can measure any<br />macro-tolerance indicated in the technical documentation. Flatness tolerance<br />is often present with the aim of completing the needed functional<br />requirements of a workpiece. The investigation conducted in this paper<br />considers the problem of assessing the flatness error measured on a CMM<br />based on the minimum zone method and on the method of evaluating<br />measurement uncertainty for this measuring task. The emphasis is on the<br />use of Monte Carlo method as a simulation tool for evaluating measurement<br />uncertainty. A new methodology for assessing the flatness error has been<br />developed, as well as a simulation model for evaluating measurement<br />uncertainty for this measuring task.</p>

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-05-23T14:51:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 7468223 bytes, checksum: d6989870b5f353c5592a40ac6ebb0333 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-23T14:51:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 7468223 bytes, checksum: d6989870b5f353c5592a40ac6ebb0333 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-07 / For many years the power transmission and movement for gears has been an important technology in the automotive, mechanical and aeronautical industries, justifying the considerable number of research carried out under the quality control of these components. Nowadays, involute profile inspections of cylindrical gears have been carried out using CNC Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) with rotary tables and dedicated measurement software, equipped with contact scanning sensors, Touch Trigger Probes – TTP or non-contact, Laser. However, many companies that manufacture and inspect gears use manual CMMs with point to point sensors, thus being unable to issue the profile deviation report. In respect, the motivation for this research is to develop and validate inspection strategies for determining the Total Profile Deviation (Fα) of spur gears, according to ISO 1328, using of a mathematical tool NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) and CMMs manual. Strategies for changing the NURBS weight parameter wi also were applied to assist in inspection definition procedure, and this is one more degree of freedom. In the first moment, before the execution of experimental procedures, simulations were carried out on a computational system and showed satisfactory results. For the experimental tests, a manual CMM MICRO-HITE 3D model was used with point to point sensor. Simulations and experimental results showed that the NURBS technique contributes to manual CMM application using Touch Trigger Probes in measuring the spur gears involute profile. The experimental results showed the methodology efficacy. / Por muitos anos a transmissão de movimento e de potência por engrenagens tem sido uma tecnologia importante nas indústrias automotiva, mecânica e aeronáutica, justificando assim a considerável quantidade de pesquisas realizadas no âmbito do controle de qualidade destes componentes. Atualmente, inspeções dos perfis evolventes de engrenagens cilíndricas vêm sendo realizadas utilizando Máquinas de Medição por Coordenadas (MMCs) CNC com mesas rotativas e softwares de medição dedicados, equipadas com sensores por contato de escaneamento, do tipo Touch Trigger Probe – TTP, ou sem contato, Laser. Porém, muitas empresas que fabricam e inspecionam engrenagens utilizam MMCs manuais com sensores do tipo ponto a ponto, ficando assim impossibilitadas de emitir o relatório de desvio de perfil. Neste sentido, a motivação para esta pesquisa é desenvolver e validar estratégias de inspeção para determinação do Desvio Total de Perfil (Fα) de engrenagens cilíndrica de dentes retos, segundo a norma ISO 1328, fazendo o uso da ferramenta matemática NURBS (Non – Uniform Rational B-Splines) e de MMCs manuais. Estratégias para alteração do parâmetro peso wi das NURBS também serão aplicadas para auxiliar na definição do procedimento de inspeção, sendo este um grau de liberdade a mais do modelo. No primeiro momento, antes da execução dos procedimentos experimentais, simulações foram realizadas em um sistema computacional, e apresentaram resultados satisfatórios. Para os testes experimentais foi utilizada uma MMC manual modelo MICRO-HITE 3D, com sensor do tipo ponto a ponto. Resultados de simulações e experimentais mostraram que a técnica NURBS contribui para aplicação de MMC manual usando sensor Touch Trigger na medição do perfil evolvente de engrenagens cilíndricas de dentes retos. Os resultados experimentais demonstraram a eficácia da metodologia desenvolvida.