About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Artificial Intelligence
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| Presentation Title |
AI-Guided Resilience of Additive Manufacturing to Expeditionary Environments |
| Author(s) |
Rajiv Malhotra |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Rajiv Malhotra |
| Abstract Scope |
Expeditionary Additive Manufacturing (AM) is exposed to irregular variations in externalities that affect defect dynamics and are typically constant in conventional in-factory AM. Stoppage-free real-time mitigation of defects induced by these externality variations is necessary for timely delivery of quality parts. But existing solutions require typically-unavailable explicit knowledge of externality variations or render the part unusable due to infeasibly slow defect disruption. This work addresses this issue via a novel Conditional Reinforcement Learning (ConRL) approach. Experimental validation reveals the reduction in defect proliferation by 10X and a hitherto unreported scalability, i.e., it is possible to mitigate defects induced by untrained-for and unknown externality variations without any model retraining. It is shown that existing approaches cannot address this challenge of retaining yield and quality in such expeditionary conditions. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Machine Learning, Other |