The invention discloses a turning chatter detection method, and relates to the technical field of detection. In the turning process, the state of a
machine tool can be reflected in dynamic
cutting force. The turning chatter detection method includes the steps that firstly, an off-line data training model is used, force signals are decomposed to a sixth layer through
wavelet packet transformation, energy of each node is worked out, and a 64-dimension
feature vector is obtained;
dimensionality reduction is conducted on the
feature vector through
least squares support vector machine-regression feature
elimination (LSSVM-RFE), redundancy features are eliminated continuously, optimal features are selected out, and a
least squares support vector machine classifier is trained according to the optimal features; and each selected feature corresponds to one
wavelet packet node, in the on-line detection process, only a small
wavelet packet matrix is needed to decompose force signals to the small wavelet packet nodes selected in the off-line training process, the
feature vector is built and input into the classifier, and a detection result is obtained. By the adoption of the
dimensionality reduction method, the turning chatter detection method has the beneficial effects of being high in speed and high in identifying accuracy and effectively guaranteeing the
machining safety and the product quality.