ADAPTIVE LEARNING CONTROL OF CUTTING PARAMETERS FOR SCULPTURED SURFACE CUTTING BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND NEURAL NETWORK

An adaptive learning control scheme intended to the on-line optimization of sculptured surface cutting process is presented. The scheme uses a back-propagation neural network to learn the relationships between process inputs and process states. The cutting parameters of the process model are optimized through a genetic algorithms(GA). The capacity of the proposed scheme for determining optimum process inputs under a variety of process conditions and optimization strategies is evaluated on the basis of milling of a sculptured surface using a ball-end mill. The experimental results show that the neural network could model the cutting process efficiently, and the cutting conditions such as spindle speed could be regulated for achieving high efficiency and high quality. Therefore the proposed approach can be well applied to the manufacturing of dies and molds.