• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.376-382
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• 1986

Adaptive control constraint (ACC) is applied to a turning process to keep the cutting force constant while the cutting conditions vary. In this system, a given reference force is compared with the measured cutting force and difference is input to the controller to adjust the feed. Since it is found that the effective ACC loop gain depends on both depth-of-cut and spindle speed and thereby influence the system stability, a simple computer algorithm is built in the controller to maintain the stability of the whole system by on-line estimation of the process parameters during cutting.