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In an advanced manufacturing system, accurate assessment of tool life estimation is very essential for optimising the cutting performance in turning operation. Estimation of tool life generally requires considerable time and material and hence it is a relatively expensive procedure. In this present work, back-propagation feed forward artificial neural network (ANN) has been used for tool life prediction. Speed, feed, depth of cut and flank wear were taken as input parameters and tool life as an output parameter. Twenty-five patterns were used for training the network. Recently there have been significant research efforts to apply evolutionary computational techniques for determining the network weights. Hence an evolutionary technique named particle swarm optimisation has been used instead of the back-propagation algorithm and it is proved that the experimental results matched well with the values predicted by both artificial neural network with back-propagation and the proposed method. It is found that the computational time is greatly reduced by this method.
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Natarajan, U., Periasamy, V.M. & Saravanan, R. Application of particle swarm optimisation in artificial neural network for the prediction of tool life. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 31, 871–876 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0252-1
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