A Virtual Measurement Method of the Transmission Error Based on Point Clouds of the Gear

Abstract

As the most widely used gear measuring instrument, the gear measuring center can measure the individual deviations of a gear tooth flank other than the comprehensive deviations of the gear. However, gear transmission error is an important transmission performance indicator in the gear meshing process. It is an important trend of gear measuring to obtain the transmission error from individual deviations. In this study, a calculation method of gear transmission error is proposed based on the point clouds of the gear obtained by optical sensors. According to the gear meshing principle, a method is introduced to determine the contact status between the tooth flanks formed by the point clouds. According to this introduced method, the single tooth pair meshing process and the meshing process of multiple tooth pairs are analyzed to determine the gear transmission error curve. The comparison results of tooth contact analysis and gear measurement experiments verify the proposed virtual measurement method.

Spatial error modeling and accuracy distribution of line laser gear measuring center

“…7 By replacing the contact probe with a line laser sensor in a traditional gear measuring center, Shi's team achieved rapid acquisition of 3D gear data, leading to significant advancements in the field. [8][9][10][11][12] However, a fully developed line laser gear measurement device is yet to be realized. This is because while using line laser equipment for gear measurement offers efficiency, there is still room for improvement in terms of accuracy.…”