A Cutting Mechanics-based Machine Learning Modeling Method to Discover Governing Equations of Machining Dynamics
This work addresses the challenge of automated model discovery in machining dynamics, which could advance practical machining modeling, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing physics and data methods.
The paper tackled the problem of discovering governing equations for machining dynamics by integrating known physics with data-driven learning, and demonstrated that the proposed method could accurately identify milling dynamics models from noisy data.
This paper proposes a cutting mechanics-based machine learning (CMML) modeling method to discover governing equations of machining dynamics. The main idea of CMML design is to integrate existing physics in cutting mechanics and unknown physics in data to achieve automated model discovery, with the potential to advance machining modeling. Based on existing physics in cutting mechanics, CMML first establishes a general modeling structure governing machining dynamics, that is represented by a set of unknown differential algebraic equations. CMML can therefore achieve data-driven discovery of these unknown equations through effective cutting mechanics-based nonlinear learning function space design and discrete optimization-based learning algorithm. Experimentally verified time domain simulation of milling is used to validate the proposed modeling method. Numerical results show CMML can discover the exact milling dynamics models with process damping and edge force from noisy data. This indicates that CMML has the potential to be used for advancing machining modeling in practice with the development of effective metrology systems.