Wire disconnection prediction device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11471965-B2
Application number	US-202016752717-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2020
Priority date	Jan 31, 2019
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

A wire disconnection prediction device includes: a data acquisition part configured to acquire data relating to machining of a workpiece during machining of the workpiece by a wire electric discharge machine; a preprocessing part configured to create, based on the data acquired by the data acquisition part, machining condition data, machining member data and machining state data, as state data indicating a state of the machining; and a machine learning device configured to execute, based on the state data created by the preprocessing part, processing relating to machine learning using a learning model indicating correlation between a machining state in the wire electric discharge machine and presence/absence of a possibility of disconnection occurrence of a wire electrode in the wire electric discharge machine and a disconnection cause by a plurality of class sets.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wire disconnection prediction device for estimating a wire disconnection risk during machining of a workpiece in a wire electric discharge machine, the wire disconnection prediction device comprising:
a data acquisition part configured to acquire data relating to machining of the workpiece during machining of the workpiece by the wire electric discharge machine;
a preprocessing part configured to create, based on the data acquired by the data acquisition part, machining condition data of a condition relating to the machining commanded in the machining of the workpiece, machining member data relating to a member used in the machining, and machining state data during the machining of the workpiece, as state data indicating a state of the machining; and
a machine learning device configured to execute, based on the state data created by the preprocessing part, processing relating to machine learning using a learning model indicating correlation between a machining state in the wire electric discharge machine and presence/absence of a possibility of disconnection occurrence of a wire electrode in the wire electric discharge machine and a disconnection cause by a plurality of class sets, wherein
the preprocessing part is configured to create the state data and label data based on the data acquired by the data acquisition part, the label data taking, as label values, the presence/absence of the disconnection occurrence of the wire electrode at time when the state data is acquired and the disconnection cause at time when disconnection occurs,
the machine learning device includes a learning part configured to generate the learning model, based on the state data and the label data, by creating the class sets corresponding to each of the label values taken by the label data, and
the label data includes disconnection pattern data including a label indicating (1) presence/absence of disconnection occurrence of the wire electrode in a state where the state data is acquired and the disconnection cause estimated when the wire electrode is disconnected and (2) a machining condition adjusted before the disconnection,
upon acquiring the data in the state where the wire electrode is not disconnected, the preprocessing part is configured to take a label value indicating that there is no disconnection, for the disconnection pattern data of the state data, and
upon acquiring the data in the state right before the disconnection of the wire electrode, the preprocessing part is configured to take a label value indicating the disconnection occurrence and the machining condition adjusted before the disconnection, for the disconnection pattern data of the state data.

2. The wire disconnection prediction device according to claim 1 , wherein the machine learning device includes:
a learning model storage part configured to store the learning model indicating the correlation between the machining state in the wire electric discharge machine and the presence/absence of the possibility of the disconnection occurrence of the wire electrode in the wire electric discharge machine and the disconnection cause by the plurality of class sets; and
an estimation part configured to estimate, based on the state data created by the preprocessing part, the presence/absence of the possibility of the disconnection occurrence of the wire electrode in the wire electric discharge machine and the disconnection cause using the learning model stored in the learning model storage part.

3. The wire disconnection prediction device according to claim 2 , wherein
the estimation part is configured to estimate the presence/absence of the possibility of the disconnection occurrence of the wire electrode in the wire electric discharge machine and the disconnection cause, by k-nearest neighbor algorithm using the state data created by the preprocessing part and the plurality of class sets in the learning model.

4. The wire disconnection prediction device according to claim 3 , further comprising
a machining condition adjustment part configured to change a machining condition of the wire electric discharge machine, based on an estimation result of the estimation part.

5. The wire disconnection prediction device according to claim 1 , wherein the machine learning device is configured to
(1) generate the learning model obtained by gathering the state data for which the disconnection pattern data takes the same label value as respectively different class sets, and
(2) store the generated learning model in a learning model storage part.

Assignees

• Fanuc Corp

Inventors

• Takemoto Masanobu
• Hada Keita

Classifications

• G05B19/4065 Primary

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• B23H7/02

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• G05B2219/50203

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• G05B2219/45221

  Edm, electrical discharge machining, electroerosion, ecm, chemical · CPC title

• G05B2219/49015

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