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ABSTRACT METHODOLOGY
To test the accuracy of a modern ultra-precise air bearing spindle Professor Marsh made us a Matlab executable program that takes three Fundamental axial error motions are extremely important for
for a diamond turning machine you need to use some sort of individual test results from our Lion Spindle Analyzer and separates the diamond turning machines. The probe mount hardware we
error separation technique. But more than just deciding to ball error from the synchronous spindle error. The result is filtered developed positions the probe coaxially with the axis of rotation.
perform a reversal or a multi-probe test, you need to do a careful (typically to 150 upr) and the asynchronous error from the zero degree That’s important because fundamental axial error motion tests
assessment of whether or not your test hardware is up to the angle test is added back in. are influenced by how close you line up the center of the probe to
task. This paper looks at what we at Professional Instruments are the center of the spindle. You can actually get results that give
doing to test our ISO 5.5 spindle, which needs to have axial and you a spurious lower fundamental axial error result if you aren’t
radial accuracies of better than 12.5 nm at speeds from 500 to on center.
10,000 rpm.
and the speed you run at is one of them. Note the total radial error of the Specifying and Testing (New York, NY: ASME)
[2] Marsh E 2010 Precision Spindle Metrology Second Edition
spindle in Table 1. It measures less than 3 nanometers at 1,500 rpm, but
(Lancaster, PA: Destech Publications, Inc)
more than 10 nanometers at 10,000.
[3] Grejda RD 2002 Use and calibration of ultraprecision axes of
Table 1. Error motion summary of a recent spindle. rotation with nanometer level metrology (University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University)
[4] Marsh ER, Arneson DA, Martin DL 2010 A comparison of
reversal and multiprobe error separation. Precision
Engineering 34:85-91