Trouble diagnosis of the grinding process by using acoustic emission signals

The focus of this study is the development of a credible diagnosis system for the grinding process. The acoustic emission signals generated during machining were analyzed to determine the relationship between grinding-related troubles and characteristics of changes in signals. Furthermore, a neural network, which has excellent ability in pattern classification, was applied to the diagnosis system. The neural network was optimized with a momentum coefficient (m), a learning rate (a), and a structure of the hidden layer in the iterative learning process. The success rates of trouble recognition were verified. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.