An Unified Design Procedure for Flying Machining Operations

One of the most important aspects of the design of “flying machining” operation is the choice of the proper law of motion of the slave axis. In literature, technical reports and papers can be found concerning this subject, but they deal with specific problems and the solutions or suggestions proposed are specific as well, suitable for those cases. In order to try to overcome this limitation, in this paper we analyze the subject of the flying machining operations from a wider point of view. We propose a unified design procedure that has general validity being suitable for the choice of the slave axis’ law of motion for whatever “flying machining” operation. Moreover the unified design process proposed includes also methodologies for the choice of motor and transmission.