A simplified electromagnetism-like mechanism algorithm for tool path planning in 5-axis flank milling

Author

Qing Wu ; Xinyu Li ; Liang Gao ; Ying Li

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Digital Manuf. Equip. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

27-29 June 2013

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

426

Abstract

In 5-axis flank milling, tool path planning is of great significance since the machining error can be systematically reduced by optimization of tool path planning. Therefore, various optimization methods for tool path planning have been developed. This paper proposes a simplified electromagnetism-like mechanism (EM) algorithm to optimize the tool path planning. Based on the experimental results, we can see that the proposed method owns excellent performance compared with original EM (OEM) algorithm and PSO algorithm. Moreover, we also study the parameter selection of EM algorithm according to different processing surface.

Keywords

electromagnetism; machining; manufacturing processes; milling machines; particle swarm optimisation; path planning; 5-axis flank milling; OEM algorithm; PSO algorithm; different processing surface; machining error; original EM; parameter selection; simplified electromagnetism like mechanism algorithm; tool path planning; Encoding; Force; Linear programming; Milling; Optimization; Path planning; electromagnetism-like mechanism; machining error; parameter selection; tool path planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2013 IEEE 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Whistler, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6084-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2013.6581000

Filename

6581000