Application of high dynamic processing heads for laser cutting

This paper presents solutions for high dynamic and accurate 2D laser cutting. These solutions are based on a laser processing head with an integrated high dynamic axes system for the positioning of the laser beam. Additional to the application as stand-alone system the processing head can be applied superimposed to a conventional main axes system of a laser cutting machine. In this case the trajectory for the relative movement between the laser beam and the workpiece has to be splitted into one trajectory for the main axes system of the laser machine and one trajectory for the high dynamic axes system of the processing head.