An in-process surface recognition system based on neural networks in end milling cutting operations

作者：Tsai YH; Chen JC^*; Lou SJ

来源：International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 1999, 39(4): 583-605.

DOI：10.1016/S0890-6955(98)00053-4

• accelerometer
• end milling
• surface roughness
• neural networks

An in-process based surface recognition system to predict the surface roughness of machined parts in the end milling process was developed in this research to assure product quality and increase production rate by predicting the surface finish parameters in real time. In this system, an accelerometer and a proximity sensor are employed as in-process surface recognition sensors during cutting to collect the vibration and rotation data, respectively. Using spindle speed, feed rate, depth of cut, and the vibration average per revolution (VAPR) as four input neurons, an artificial neural networks (ANN) model based on backpropagation was developed to predict the output neuron-surface, roughness R-a values. The experimental results show that the proposed ANN surface recognition model has a high accuracy rate (96-99%) for predicting surface roughness under a variety of combinations of cutting conditions. This system is also economical, efficient, and able to be implemented to achieve the goal of in-process surface recognition by retrieving the weightings (which were generated from training and testing by the artificial neural networks), predicting the surface roughness R-a values while the part is being machined, and giving feedback to the operators when the necessary action has to be taken.

• 出版日期1999-4