TY - GEN
T1 - Physics-informed gaussian process based optimal control of laser powder bed fusion
AU - Ren, Yong
AU - Wang, Qian
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This paper was also supported in part by Penn State ICDS Seed Grant.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Regulating the melt-pool size to a constant reference value during the build process is a challenging task in Laser Powder Bed Fusion additive manufacturing (LPBF-AM). This paper considers adjusting laser power to achieve a constant melt-pool volume during laser processing of a multi-track build under LPBF-AM. First, a Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is applied to model the variation of the melt-pool volume along the deposition distance, with physics-informed input features. Then a constrained finite-horizon optimal control problem is formulated, with a quadratic cost function defined to minimize the difference between the melt-pool volume and a reference value. A projected gradient descent algorithm is applied to compute the sequence of laser power in the proposed optimal control problem. The GPR modeling of melt-pool dynamics is trained and tested using simulated data sets generated from a commercial finite-element based AM software, and the same commercial AM software is used to evaluate the control performance. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed GPR modeling and optimal control in regulating melt-pool volume for building multi-track parts with LPBF-AM.
AB - Regulating the melt-pool size to a constant reference value during the build process is a challenging task in Laser Powder Bed Fusion additive manufacturing (LPBF-AM). This paper considers adjusting laser power to achieve a constant melt-pool volume during laser processing of a multi-track build under LPBF-AM. First, a Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is applied to model the variation of the melt-pool volume along the deposition distance, with physics-informed input features. Then a constrained finite-horizon optimal control problem is formulated, with a quadratic cost function defined to minimize the difference between the melt-pool volume and a reference value. A projected gradient descent algorithm is applied to compute the sequence of laser power in the proposed optimal control problem. The GPR modeling of melt-pool dynamics is trained and tested using simulated data sets generated from a commercial finite-element based AM software, and the same commercial AM software is used to evaluate the control performance. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed GPR modeling and optimal control in regulating melt-pool volume for building multi-track parts with LPBF-AM.
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U2 - 10.1115/DSCC2020-3197
DO - 10.1115/DSCC2020-3197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100928448
T3 - ASME 2020 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2020
BT - Intelligent Transportation/Vehicles; Manufacturing; Mechatronics; Engine/After-Treatment Systems; Soft Actuators/Manipulators; Modeling/Validation; Motion/Vibration Control Applications; Multi-Agent/Networked Systems; Path Planning/Motion Control; Renewable/Smart Energy Systems; Security/Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems; Sensors/Actuators; Tracking Control Systems; Unmanned Ground/Aerial Vehicles; Vehicle Dynamics, Estimation, Control; Vibration/Control Systems; Vibrations
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2020 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2020
Y2 - 5 October 2020 through 7 October 2020
ER -