Generalized Intelligent Grinding Advisory System.

The paper presents the current development of the Generalized Intelligent Grinding Advisory System (GIGAS), which provides a systematic way of modelling complex grinding processes and finding optimal process conditions while meeting the general class of process requirements. GIGAS provides a way of incorporating three different types of knowledge, including analytical models, experimental data and heuristic knowledge from experts, to describe complex grinding processes. The developed optimization algorithm can handle various optimization problems including different grinding processes and optimization objectives. Case studies are presented for surface grinding and cylindrical plunge-grinding with various optimization objectives to demonstrate its capability of performing optimization. The overall architecture and the developed software with the graphical user interface are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]