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Sensors and Materials, Volume 38, Number 6(2) (2026)
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S&M4491 Research paper
https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM6311
Published: June 12, 2026

Intelligent Determination of Optimal Grinding Wheel Dressing Timing Based on Acoustic Emission Signals [PDF]

Yin-Wei Chao, Chun-Yen Chen, Yue-Feng Lin, Ming-Yi Tsai, and Kai-Jung Chen

(Received March 4, 2026; Accepted May 27, 2026)

Keywords: acoustic emission, abrasive grain exposure ratio, clustering analysis, dressing timing, ResNet

The grinding wheel condition critically affects surface integrity and process stability in precision grinding. During continuous grinding, abrasive grains exhibit multiple coexisting physical phenomena, including chip removal, self-sharpening, stuffing, and passivation, which cannot be adequately represented by conventional single-state monitoring approaches. In this study, we present an acoustic emission (AE)-based multi-label deep learning framework for intelligent grinding wheel condition recognition and dressing timing determination. AE signals collected during continuous surface grinding were transformed into time–frequency representations and labeled through the direct optical observation of abrasive grain conditions. A Residual Neural Network (ResNet)-based multi-label classifier was trained to simultaneously identify the four grinding phenomena. The proposed model achieved a macro-averaged F1-score of approximately 0.80, with area-under-curve values ranging from 0.73 to 0.81. Consecutive prediction behavior was further analyzed under continuous grinding conditions, showing that persistent AE-predicted degradation phenomena correspond to irreversible surface roughness deterioration beyond Ra = 0.4 μm. On the basis of these findings, an experimentally validated dressing timing criterion was established using consecutive multi-label predictions and surface roughness verification. The proposed approach provides a physically interpretable and data-driven solution for intelligent grinding process monitoring and dressing decision-making.

Corresponding author: Kai-Jung Chen


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Yin-Wei Chao, Chun-Yen Chen, Yue-Feng Lin, Ming-Yi Tsai, and Kai-Jung Chen, Intelligent Determination of Optimal Grinding Wheel Dressing Timing Based on Acoustic Emission Signals, Sens. Mater., Vol. 38, No. 6, 2026, p. 3089-3124.



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