Grinding wheel system
AssigneeUniversity of Massachusetts
InventorsStephen Malkin, Robert Gao, Changsheng Guo, Biju Varghese, Sumukh Pathare
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Abstract
A grinding wheel system includes a grinding wheel with at least one embedded sensor. The system also includes an adapter disk containing electronics that process signals produced by each embedded sensor and that transmits sensor information to a data processing platform for further processing of the transmitted information.
Claims18
A computer program, disposed on a computer readable medium, that analyzes data acquired via sensors embedded in a grinding wheel, the computer program comprising instructions that cause a processor to:
- receive sensor data representing force sensed by each sensor embedded in a grinding wheel;
- analyze the received data;
- and
- use the analyzed data to determine one or more grinding wheel phenomena or parameters selected from the group consisting of dullness, grinding mode, roundness, roughness, temperature, chatter, tangential force, and structural imperfection.
A computer program, disposed on a computer readable medium, that analyzes data acquired via sensors embedded in a grinding wheel, the computer program comprising instructions that cause a processor to:
- receive sensor data representing force sensed by each sensor embedded in a grinding wheel;
- analyze the received data;
- and
- use the analyzed data to determine one or more grinding wheel phenomena or parameters,
- wherein the instructions that cause the processor to analyze the received data compare sensor data collected from different sensors at substantially the same time;
- and
- wherein the instructions that analyze the data use at least one neuro-fuzzy network.
A computer program, disposed on a computer readable medium, that analyzes data acquired via sensors embedded in a grinding wheel, the computer program comprising instructions that cause a processor to:
- receive sensor data representing force sensed by each sensor embedded in a grinding wheel;
- analyze the received data;
- and
- use the analyzed data to determine one or more grinding wheel phenomena or parameters,
- wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
- receive sensor data representing acoustic emission;
- analyze the acoustic emission data;
- and
- use the analyzed acoustic emission data to determine one or more grinding wheel phenomena or parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.