AN ADAPTIVE-CONTROL OPTIMIZATION FOR CIRCULAR SAWING

This paper describes a method of adaptive control optimization develop ed for circular sawing to produce a specified surface finish quality i n a production environment. It is possible to develop the relationship between the workpiece feed-rate and acoustic emission (AE) count-rate , which is used for the automatic control of workpiece feed-rate, by a single cutting test. This is done for the workpiece immediately befor e operation by adaptive control optimization, with the workpiece feed- rate and AE count-rate chosen as control variable and process variable , respectively. A multiple-regression equation based on AE count-rate and specific gravity for softwoods is effective for adaptive control o ptimization of circular sawing in order to produce the required surfac e finish quality.