智能机床外文翻译本科论文.doc

毕业设计中英文翻译 学生姓名： 学号： 学 院： 专 业： 指导教师： 2013年 5 月 原文： 48.4.4 Autonomous and Intelligent Machine Tool The whole machining operation of conventional CNC machine tools is predetermined by NC programs. Once the cutting conditions, such as depth of cut and stepover, are given by the machining commands in the NC programs, they are not generally allowed to be changed during machining operations. Therefore NC programs must be adequately prepared and verified in advance, which requires extensive amounts of time and effort. Moreover, NC programs with fixed commands are not responsive to unpredictable changes, such as job delay, job insertion, and machine breakdown found on machining shop floors. Shirase proposed a new architecture to control the cutting process autonomously without NC programs. Figure 48.29 shows the conceptual structure of autonomous and intelligent machine tools (AIMac). AIMac consists of four functional modules called management, strategy, prediction, and observation. All functional modules are connected with each other to share cutting information. Fig. 48.29 Conceptual structure of AIMac Digital Copy Milling for Real-Time Tool-Path Generation A technique called digital copy milling has been developed to control a CNC machine tool directly. The digital copy milling system can generate tool paths in real time based on the principle of traditional copy milling. In digital copy milling, a tracing probe and a master model in traditional copy milling are represented by three-dimensional (3-D) virtual models in a computer. A virtual tracing probe is simulated to follow a virtual master model, and cutter locations are generated dynamically according to the motion of the virtual tracing probe in real time. In the digital copy milling, cutter locations are generated autonomously, and an NC machine tool can be instructed to perfo