High speed pocket milling planning by feature-based machining area partitioning

  • Authors:

  • Eun-Young Heo;Dong-Won Kim;Jong-Young Lee;Cheol-Soo Lee;F. Frank Chen

  • Affiliations:

  • Sogang Institute of Advanced Technology, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea;Department of Industrial and Information Systems Engineering, The Research Center of Industrial Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Republic of Korea;Department of Industrial and Information Systems Engineering, The Research Center of Industrial Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Republic of Korea;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University Seoul, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea;Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249, USA

  • Venue:
  • Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Pocket milling operations are involved in two and a half-dimensional (2.5D) machining. The machining area of a pocket has to be divided into several sub machining regions (SMRs) to effectively select the machining parameters for ordinary or high speed milling. A SMR of a pocket has its own characteristic geometry, which implicitly provides machining features used for the generation of strategies for high speed machining. This paper presents a methodology to partition a pocket machining area, as well as to identify machining features used for planning of high speed pocket machining. To generate the machining strategy, the attributes of machining features are defined, and evaluated through a machining volume slicing method. SMR-based partitioning rules are developed based on the geometric features of a pocket. The proposed partitioning algorithm is applied to both simple and complex shaped pockets. A case pocket volume is divided into several SMRs, represented by a tree structure containing associated information for pocket milling planning.