Real-Time Monitoring System of Cutting Process Based on Cutting Temperature

Cutting temperature measurement and its variety tendency can reflect cutting tool performance and machined surface quality directly. By means of a mercury current collector or an electrical brush device the online measurement of thermoelectric potential of tool-workpiece natural thermocouple in milling is obtained, based on which a new cutting process real-time monitoring system is developed. The system takes the average cutting temperature in tool-workpiece interface as the monitoring target and the rotation rate of machine spindle as the adjustment object, which leaves out onerous and complex modeling and makes the monitoring and adjustment objective, direct and effective.