The invention relates to a
grinding wheel
path generation method for tilting-axis single-point
grinding of a free-form curved surface. The method comprises the steps that a plane perpendicular to theZ axis of a workpiece coordinate
system is established at the position zd by a certain distance above the free-form curved surface to be processed in the workpiece coordinate
system, an
equidistant spiral line is generated in the plane and discretized, points are converted into cylindrical-coordinate
system forms (rho, theta and zd) after
discretization, the free-form curved surface to be processed is rotated by the angle theta around the Z axis, the
minimum distance delta and the B-axis rotation angle beta between the
grinding wheel
processing curved surface and the rotated free-form curved surface to be processed at each point of the
equidistant spiral line in the Z direction are obtained, then coordinates (rho, 0 and zd-
delta) of a
grinding wheel control point are obtained, specifically, a
grinding wheel is a circular-bead columnar
grinding wheel, and the inclination angle between the grinding wheel axis and the workpiece rotation shaft axis is beta and changes along with rotation of a workpiece so that it can be ensured that the contact point of the workpiece and the grinding wheel is kept unchanged. According to the method, the projection drive track of the grinding wheel
control point is optimally generated, smoothness of feeding motion of the grinding wheel in the X direction is ensured, and the requirement for dynamic response performance of a
machine tool is reduced; and meanwhile, as the grinding point of the grinding wheel is kept unchanged, the
contour error of the grinding wheel cannot be copied to the workpiece, and accordingly the quality of the
processing surface can be further improved.