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하모닉 감속기의 치형 오차 측정 및 평가

Measurement and Evaluation of Tooth Profiles of a Harmonic Drive

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2021;38(8):589-594.
Published online: August 1, 2021

1 숭실대학교 기계공학부

1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Soongsil University

#E-mail: ahj123@ssu.ac.kr, TEL: +82-2-820-0654
• Received: March 25, 2021   • Revised: June 2, 2021   • Accepted: June 10, 2021

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Fig. 1 Various devices to measure the teeth of a harmonic reducer
Fig. 2 Flexspline and its tooth profile
Fig. 3 Teeth measurement results of the three devices
Fig. 4 Evaluation model for deviation of a tooth profile
Fig. 5 Preprocessing of the measured tooth profile
Fig. 6 RMS error of the measured tooth profile with the gear tester
Fig. 7 Error with various number of the measured points
Fig. 8 Error before and after reducing the number of points
Fig. 9 Error of the three sections measured with the gear tester
Fig. 10 Tooth profile measurement errors of the three devices
Fig. 11 Error comparison of the three measurement devices
Measurement and Evaluation of Tooth Profiles of a Harmonic Drive

Specifications of various measuring devices11-13 (Adapted from Refs. 11 to 13 on the basis of OA)

(a) Gear tester11
Measuring range (X/Z) [mm] ±50/250
Accuracy [μm] 1.6 + L/400
Resolution [μm]
(Runout/Straightness/Coaxiality)
< 0.3/0.4/1.2
 
(b) Projector12
Measuring range (X/Y/Z) [mm] 650/650/25
XY accuracy [μm] 2.8 + L/300
Z accuracy [μm] 3.0 + L/100
Resolution [μm]
 
(c) Laser line scanner13
Measuring range (X/Z) [mm] 7.5/20±2.2
Accuracy (Z linearity) ±0.05% of F.S.
Resolution [μm] 2.5

Error before and after reducing the number of points

# of pts. Max [μm] Average [μm] RMS [μm]
Projector 557 11.441 3.4537 11.762
384 10.381 3.6714 11.508
192 10.520 3.8671 10.954
64 10.359 4.0517 10.365
Line scanner 400 15.808 6.7977 17.271
232 15.481 5.8897 16.810
148 15.361 5.9666 18.027
64 15.240 6.0325 16.750

Error comparison of the three measurement devices

Device (64pts.) Max [μm] Average [μm] RMS [μm]
Gear tester 9.958 3.205 12.980
Projector 10.359 4.052 10.365
Laser line scanner 15.240 6.033 16.750
Table 1 Specifications of various measuring devices11-13 (Adapted from Refs. 11 to 13 on the basis of OA)
Table 2 Error before and after reducing the number of points
Table 3 Error comparison of the three measurement devices