A survey on artificial intelligence technologies in modeling of High Speed end-milling processes

High Speed Machining centers (HSM) are considered as complicated industrial instruments. Finishing is a critical process in production procedure which is carried on by these machines. Among many types of cutters, ball-nose cutters are the preferred cutters to do these kinds of operations since they have extensive operating cutting edges and appropriate geometry. The main aim of the researches on cutting process is to understand its nature better and to use this knowledge to improve the quality of the product. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to have a descriptive reference model on the process using experiments' data. Increasing demands for better surface-finishing and concurrently the development of the available measurement instruments and modeling techniques make the methods and approaches to be novel. Present paper is a survey on the lack of literature on the state-of-the-art modeling paradigms of milling processes, mainly on ball-nose cutters for surface finishing.