Surface profile estimation in milling through vibration analysis and long short-term memory networks
摘要
The objective of this research is to investigate the feasibility of utilizing tooling vibration signals and cutting parameters to predict workpiece surface profiles in the milling process, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of surface quality. Information-contained (IC) signals were synthesized from milling vibration measurements using principal component analysis (PCA) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Statistical features and sweeping-frequency features were then extracted from individual intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) of the IC signals in both time and frequency domains. Subsequently, independent long short-term memory (LSTM) networks were used to estimate the individual IMFs of the surface profiles, incorporating the milling parameters and selected signal features as inputs. Results demonstrated that mid-low frequency components of surface profiles could be estimated accurately with an average mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 14.72%, while low-frequency components achieved an average MAPE of 7.79%.