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IN-PROCESS DATA FUSION FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL OF METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

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Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu, Simin Li, Jennifer Li, Yande Ndiaye, Hui Yang, Sundar Krishnamurty

Abstract

To accelerate the adoption of Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM) for production, an understanding of MAM process-structure-property (PSP) relationships is indispensable for quality control. A multitude of physical phenomena involved in MAM necessitates the use of multi-modal and in-process sensing techniques to model, monitor, and control the process. The data generated from these sensors and process actuators are fused in various ways to advance our understanding of the process and to estimate both process status and part-in-progress states. This paper presents a hierarchical in-process data fusion framework for MAM, consisting of pointwise, trackwise, layerwise, and partwise data analytics. Data fusion can be performed at raw data, feature, decision, or mixed levels. The multi-scale data fusion framework is illustrated in detail using a laser powder bed fusion process for anomaly detection, material defect isolation, and part quality prediction. The multi-scale data fusion can be generally applied and integrated with real-time MAM process control, near-real-time layerwise repairing, and build wise decision making. The framework can be utilized by the AM research and standards community to rapidly develop and deploy interoperable tools and standards to analyze, process and exploit two or more different types of AM data. Common engineering standards for AM data fusion systems will dramatically improve the ability to detect, identify and locate part flaws, and then derive optimal policies for process control.
Proceedings Title
Proc. of 41st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE)
Conference Dates
August 17-21, 2021
Conference Location
Virtual, MD, US
Conference Title
ASME IDETC-CIE 2021
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

data fusion, metal additive manufacturing, process monitoring, process control
Image and signal processing, Data and informatics and Additive manufacturing

Citation

Yang, Z. , Lu, Y. , Li, S. , Li, J. , Ndiaye, Y. , Yang, H. and Krishnamurty, S. (2021), IN-PROCESS DATA FUSION FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL OF METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, Proc. of 41st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Virtual, MD, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932382 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created November 17, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022