Journal
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 1165-1180Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-022-01920-5
Keywords
Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM); Cold metal transfer (CMT) welding; Autoregressive model (ARX); Model predictive control (MPC); Bead geometry control
Funding
- China Scholarship Council [202108200021, 202008200004]
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This paper introduces an online layer-by-layer controller for improving the geometric accuracy of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). The controller compensates for geometric errors by measuring the deposited geometry, comparing it with the CAD model, and generating new welding parameters. Two control strategies, PID algorithm and MPC algorithm, are proposed and evaluated. The research shows that increasing the complexity of the control algorithm improves the real-time control performance and reduces geometric fluctuations in the test component. The adaptiveness of the control strategy is also verified by accurately controlling the fabrication of a complex geometry part.
Improving the geometric accuracy of the deposited component is essential for the wider adoption of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) in industries. This paper introduces an online layer-by-layer controller that operates robustly under various welding conditions to improve the deposition accuracy of the WAAM process. Two control strategies are proposed and evaluated in this work: A PID algorithm and a multi-input multi-output model-predictive control (MPC) algorithm. After each layer of deposition, the deposited geometry is measured using a laser scanner. These measurements are compared against the CAD model, and geometric errors are then compensated by the controller, which generates a new set of welding parameters for the next layer. The MPC algorithm, combined with a linear autoregressive (ARX) modelling process, updates welding parameters between successive layers by minimizing a cost function based on sequences of input variables and predicted responses. Weighting coefficients of the ARX model are trained iteratively throughout the manufacturing process. The performance of the designed control architecture is investigated through both simulation and experiments. Results show that the real-time control performance is improved by increasing the complexity of implemented control algorithm: controlled geometric fluctuations in the test component were reduced by 200% whilst maintaining fluctuations within a 3 mm limit under various welding conditions. In addition, the adaptiveness of designed control strategy is verified by accurately controlling the fabrication of a part with complex geometry.
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