A survey and future predictions for the use of chip breaking in unmanned systems

This paper is aimed at presenting the current status of the knowledge and the use of chip control in machining, with a view to identifying the further work required for total chip control in unmanned systems. The results of an extensive survey on chip control covering over 160 published works since 1900 have been classified and summarised in 11 chip control-associated keyword groups. A critical review of the present status of research and future directions are then presented. This highlights the need for developing knowledge-based systems on the basis of a coding and classification system and the machinability data banks featuring predictive machining theories. An extension to this off-line processing facility in the proposed knowledge-based system would be the use of an on-line sensor-based chip form monitoring technique.