Abstract
The objective of this work is to highlight the modeling capabilities of artificial intelligence techniques for predicting the power requirements in machining process. The present scenario demands such types of models so that the acceptability of power prediction models can be raised and can be applied in sustainable process planning. This paper presents two artificial intelligence modeling techniques - artificial neural network and support vector regression - used for predicting the power consumed in machining process. In order to investigate the capability of these techniques for predicting the value of power, a real machining experiment is performed. Experiments are designed using Taguchi method so that effect of all the parameters could be studied with minimum possible number of experiments. A L-16 (4(3)) 4-level 3-factor Taguchi design is used to elaborate the plan of experiments. The power predicted by both techniques are compared and evaluated against each other and it has been found that ANN slightly performs better as compare to SVR. To check the goodness of models, some representative hypothesis tests t-test to test the means, f-test and Leven's test to test variance are conducted. Results indicate that the models proposed in the research are suitable for predicting the power. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V.