In-situ grinding wheel topography, power monitoring, and feed/speed scheduling systems and methods

A grinding process simulator for feed rate scheduling for a grinding wheel, comprising:

• a virtual machining simulation environment having a processor;
• and
• a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the virtual machining simulation environment to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a topography parameter of the grinding wheel of a machine tool, wherein the topography parameter comprises a density of crystals at a given depth (h) of the grinding wheel (C(h));
• and
• calculating a feed rate scheduling parameter for a toolpath of the grinding wheel based on the topography parameter of the grinding wheel.

A method, comprising:

• measuring a topography of a grinding wheel of a machine tool;
• converting the topography to a point cloud having a topographical axis;
• calculating a plurality of topography parameters of the grinding wheel based on the point cloud, wherein the plurality of topography parameters comprises at least one of a density of crystals at a given depth (C(h)) of the grinding wheel, or an area fraction of crystals protruding at a given depth (α(h)) of the grinding wheel;
• and
• calculating a feed rate scheduling parameter for a toolpath of the grinding wheel based on the plurality of topography parameters.