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Milling is one of the common machining methods that cannot be abandoned especially for machining of metallic materials. The cutters with appropriate cutting parameters remove material from the workpiece. Surface roughness has the major influence on both obtaining dimensional accuracy and quality of the product. A number of cutter path strategies are employed to obtain the required surface quality. Zigzag machining is one of the mostly appealing cutting processes. Modeling of surface roughness with traditional methods often results in inadequate solutions and can be very costly in terms of the efforts and the time spent. In this research Genetic Programming (GP) has employed to predict a surface roughness model based on the experimental data. The model has produced an accuracy of 86.43%. In order to compare GP performance, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) techniques were utilized. It was seen that the surface roughness model produced by GP not only outperforms but also enables to produce more explicit models than of the other techniques. The effective parameters can easily be investigated based on the appearances in the model and they can be used in prediction of surface roughness in zigzag machining process.
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Göloğlu, C., Arslan, Y. Zigzag machining surface roughness modelling using evolutionary approach. J Intell Manuf 20, 203–210 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-008-0222-1
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