文摘
Stabilizability of the turning process subjected to a digital proportional-derivative controller is analyzed. The governing equation involves a term with continuous-time point delay due to the regenerative effect and terms with piecewise-constant arguments due to the zero-order hold of the digital control. The resulting hybrid system can be represented as a delay-differential equation with time-periodic delay, for which the stability properties are analyzed using the semi-discretization method. The critical depth of cut is determined, which limits the stabilizability of the machining process for a given spindle speed in the sense that machining operation at larger than the critical depth of cut cannot be stabilized by the applied digital controller for a fixed sampling period. The resulted stabilizability diagram shows some similarities to the traditional stability lobe diagram of machining processes.