Intelligent control of metal cutting chip breakers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSarbajit K. Rakshit, Neil Delima, Manikandan Padmanaban, Jagabondhu Hazra
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Abstract
A chip breaking apparatus is provided. The chip breaking apparatus includes a robotic arm including a gripper, a cutter, an inspection element to produce an output indicative of machining tool operations and a processor receptive of the output from the inspection element. The processor is configured to analyze the output, determine from analysis results whether a chip is being generated from a surface by the machining tool operations and whether to cut the chip away from the surface and control the robotic arm and the gripper to grip the chip and control the cutter to cut the chip away from the surface based on an affirmative determination.
Claims20
A chip breaking apparatus, comprising:
- a robotic arm comprising a gripper;
- a cutter;
- an inspection element to produce an output indicative of machining tool operations;
- and
- a processor receptive of the output from the inspection element and providing a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is configured to:
- analyze the output,
- determine from analysis results whether a chip is being generated from a surface by the machining tool operations and whether to cut the chip away from the surface, and
- control the robotic arm and the gripper to grip the chip and control the cutter to cut the chip away from the surface based on an affirmative determination.
A chip handling assembly, comprising:
- a machining tool comprising a cutting edge for machining a surface;
- and
- a chip breaking apparatus comprising:
- a robotic arm comprising a gripper;
- a cutter;
- an inspection element to produce an output indicative of machining tool operations;
- and
- a processor receptive of the output from the inspection element and providing a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is configured to:
- analyze the output,
- determine from analysis results whether a chip is being generated from the surface by the machining tool operations and whether to cut the chip away from the surface, and
- control the robotic arm and the gripper to grip the chip and control the cutter to cut the chip away from the surface based on an affirmative determination.
A method of operating a chip handling assembly, the method comprising:
- anchoring a robotic arm comprising a gripper to a machining tool comprising a cutting edge for machining a surface;
- positioning a cutter and an inspection element proximate to the machining tool;
- producing an output indicative of machining tool operations by the inspection element;
- analyzing the output;
- and
- providing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for:
- determining from results of the analyzing whether a chip is being generated from the surface by the machining tool operations and whether to cut the chip away from the surface, and
- controlling the robotic arm and the gripper to grip the chip and the cutter to cut the chip away from the surface based on the determining being affirmative.
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