Analysis of the Optical Quartz Lens Centering Process Based on Acoustic Emission Signal Processing and the Support Vector Machine

Abstract A method was proposed for analyzing the optical glass lens centering process, and experiments on biplane quartz lenses were performed to determine the material removal rate (MRR) for the hard, brittle material. This study used acoustic emission–sensing technology to monitor the MRR and reconstruct the original shape of the lens. The MRR was evaluated, and an error of 17.87% was obtained. A Taguchi experiment was combined with signal analysis to optimize the process parameters, and a support-vector machine was trained to classify the quality of the grinding wheel; the model had accuracy 98.8%. By using the proposed analysis method, workpiece quality was controlled to an edge surface roughness of <2 μm, a lens circularity error of <0.01 mm, a crack length of <E0.1, and an optical axis error of <150 μrad.