Current research trends in external energy assisted machining

External energy assisted machining involves the use of a heating, cooling, and mechanical vibration source to facilitate the material removal process. A drastic attention on the external energy assistance is resulted from the requirements for newly developed hard and brittle materials machining and many activities to understand the mechanisms, processes, and the systems have been performed on both micro and macro scale in recent years. This paper attempts to provide an overview in the general idea of these areas with laser and plasma, cryogenic, and vibration assistances. The progresses made up to date will be explained in detail and finally, the future research directions in this area will be discussed.close1

Comparative Assessment and Merit Appraisal of Thermally Assisted Machining Techniques for Improving Machinability of Titanium Alloys

Computer vision is presently a very relevant and important tool in both industrial manufacturing and mobile robots. As human vision is the most relevant sense to feed the brain with environmental information for decision making, computer-vision is nowadays becoming the main artificial sensor in the domains of industrial quality assurance and trajectory control of mobile robots