Optimisation of CNC routing operations of wooden furniture parts

The aim of this paper is to develop mathematical model and computational procedure for optimisation of feed rate at CNC routing operations of wooden furniture parts. The proposed approach takes into consideration special characteristics of solid wood, like changes in cutting forces and obtained surface quality along with cutting direction. A multistage optimisation procedure is developed, which employs binary search method and genetic algorithm. Because of the problem of full specification of feasible region in the form of inequalities, a fuzzy logic is used for correction of intermediate results within computational procedure. The developed method is verified by optimisation of routing operation of a typical furniture part, i.e. commode top. As a result of optimisation, the processing time is reduced by 54 %.