Intelligent fixture for active chatter control in milling

Authors: L. Sallese , N. Grossi, J. Tsahalis,  A. Scippa, G. Campatelli

Abstract: The mitigation of chatter vibrations in milling has collected the interest of several researches in the last decades. One of the most industrially oriented alternatives is represented by active fixtures, complex mechatronic devices capable of actuating the workpiece during machining operations, with the purpose of stabilizing the process by generating counteracting vibrations. Most of the previous works show different fixture architecture and model based control techniques. This paper deals with the development and testing of such an active fixture, presenting the main design aspects and the features of the black-box control-logic used. Experimental tests are presented to show the achievable chatter mitigation.

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Paper presenter
Name:   Lorenzo Sallese
Organization:  Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Firenze
Email: lorenzo.sallese@unifi.it
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  1. Congratulations for the very nice presentation. I would like to make two questions:
    1) How was the large training set for the Neural Networks provided?
    2) How were the outputs of the controller fed to the machine to control the process?

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