“…Although condition monitoring has been extensively studied, some limitations persist concerning the performance of monitoring systems under realistic machining conditions [ 10 ]. Condition monitoring systems have been proposed using many different approaches, some with different success rates and limitations, such as neural networks [ 3 , 7 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ], fuzzy logic [ 15 , 16 ], Markov chains [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], expert systems [ 20 ] and many others [ 10 ]. Neural networks present some of the most attractive features, such as the capability of abstraction of hardly accessible knowledge and generalization from distorted sensor signals when applied to sensor fusion and classification in tool wear monitoring.…”