LOW – COST CNC DIMENSIONAL INSPECTION GAUGES IMPROVING

Abstract

The paper describes the way in which a low cost and efficient measuring and scanning system was obtained, starting from existing equipment in the Faculty of Product Design from Transilvania University of Brasov. It refers to a YAMAHA robotic 1-D axis, for translation entraining, which was disposed to another 1-D entraining axis (which was manufactured with recycled components and controlled by an Arduino microcontroller). For dimensional inspection and scanning, a portable and flexible support as third axis was adapted, may include any type of measuring device. In this way, a low - cost three axes ordering system the coordinate measuring was possible to be obtained. The advantages of the proposed solution are: simplicity, low-cost, high accuracy and precision. The main disadvantage is that it does not allow a quick displaying and processing of the results. This is the subject of future research on improving the proposed solution.