Disturbance component identification method and disturbance component identification device

A device for identifying a disturbance component in a controller for controlling a gear cutting machine which performs machining on a workpiece by synchronizing a tool axis and a workpiece axis, the device comprising:

• an axis information storage unit configured to store one of a position deviation and a synchronization error between the tool axis and the workpiece axis during machining;
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• a disturbance component identification unit configured to, when a vibration frequency included in one of a position deviation and a synchronization error between the tool axis and the workpiece axis during the machining is defined as fd, and a sampling frequency of a sampling period, which is a time from when a tool which is fixed to the tool axis to rotate therewith cuts a single tooth trace on the workpiece until the tool again cuts a same single tooth trace in accordance with rotation of the workpiece, is defined as Fs, and when the vibration frequency fd is sufficiently large and exceeds a Nyquist frequency Fs/2 of the sampling frequency Fs,
• determine a frequency Fa of undulation appearing on each of a plurality of tooth traces in a tooth trace direction from a following relational formula:
• Fa=MIN|fd−N×Fs|,
• where N is a natural number;
• calculate a pitch of the undulation in the tooth trace direction produced by the vibration frequency fd using the relational formula and a speed of the tool axis in a feed direction relative to the workpiece axis;
• compare the calculated pitch of the undulation with a measured value of pitch of the undulation of the machined workpiece in the tooth trace direction;
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• determine, when, as a result of the comparison, the calculated pitch of the undulation and the measured value of the pitch match, that the vibration frequency fd is the disturbance component of the undulation in the tooth trace direction of the machined workpiece.