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Hybrid machine learning-enabled adaptive welding speed control

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✍️ Authors: Joseph Kershaw, Rui Yu, YuMing Zhang, Peng Wang

🔖 Topics: machine learning, robot welding, convolutional neural network

🏢 Organizations: University of Kentucky


This research presents a preliminary study on developing appropriate Machine Learning (ML) techniques for real-time welding quality prediction and adaptive welding speed adjustment for GTAW welding at a constant current. In order to collect the data needed to train the hybrid ML models, two cameras are applied to monitor the welding process, with one camera (available in practical robotic welding) recording the top-side weld pool dynamics and a second camera (unavailable in practical robotic welding, but applicable for training purpose) recording the back-side bead formation. Given these two data sets, correlations can be discovered through a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is good at image characterization. With the CNN, top-side weld pool images can be analyzed to predict the back-side bead width during active welding control.

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