Abstract
The tool condition has been a major concern in modern computer numerical control (CNC) machining due to its direct effects on the quality of final product both in the surface and dimensional integrity. The conventional machine vision-based tool condition monitoring (TCM) approaches cannot meet the high precision requirement in micro machining, as the cutting parameters are in micro scale and the spindle works in high rotation speed which makes online tool wear measurement quite difficult. To meet these challenges, this study develops a single image super-resolution (SISR) approach for direct tool wear estimation in micro-milling. Motivated by the self-similarity of tool wear image morphology, this study proposes a sparse decomposition framework by learning dictionaries from the tool wear image pyramid. Based on their multi-scale invariant properties, the similar image patches of coarse scales can be retrieved from fine scales to reconstruct the high-resolution image fastly and in high quality. The reconstructed high-resolution image then can be conveniently applied to wear monitoring, and overcomes the image acquisition deficiencies of the conventional machine vision-based monitoring approaches. Experimental results validate this approach for the tool wear area estimation as well as its generalization of the wear width with regarding to the conventional manual measurements. • Develop a single image super-resolution approach for direct tool wear estimation. • Propose a sparse decomposition framework by learning multiscale dictionaries of the tool wear image. • Achieve image super-resolution reconstruction fastly based on multi-scale invariant feature retrieval. • The reconstructed SR image can be conveniently applied to wear monitoring.
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