Automation of control of geometrical characteristics of worm and bevel gears by means of coordinate measuring

The article contains the results of research on the automation of control of the geometric characteristics of gears. The use of coordinate measuring machines can significantly improve the productivity and accuracy of measurements. However, their use for testing gears requires the use of special programs for carrying out and processing the results of measurements of products with complex surface shapes. The use of software for metrological control of the geometric characteristics of worm and bevel gears makes it possible to achieve high accuracy of control and measurement work. To automate the control of geometric characteristics of worm and bevel gears, an additional module has been created for the standard program. With its help, all points of the measured curved surface of gears, obtained by contact method according to a standard measurement program, are structured into a single data array with a measurement protocol. Based on these data, the module generates a profile of the measured surface of a wheel tooth and builds a geometric contour of the profile of the measured tooth. The result of the module's operation is the formation of a general profile of the entire gear and its comparison with the original (theoretical) profile of the gear as a whole. The control process itself is carried out in a short time interval, which makes it possible to use the proposed approach to automating the control of gear profiles in small-scale production.