Tool Wear State Diagnosis Based on Wavelet Analysis-BP Neural Network

Cutting force collected by experiment is transformed by continue wavelet in order to overcome the disadvantage that signal processing analyzes single variable. The eigenvector which can reflect tool wear state is extracted from scale-energy matrix based on analysis, and BP neural network is established to predict tool wear. Trained network is used for prediction by unknown sample. Results show that this method can identify and diagnose accurately tool wear state.