In-situ Anomaly Detection in Additive Manufacturing with Graph Neural Networks

2023/05/04 by Larsen, Sebastian, Hooper, Paul A.
#Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.02695

Abstract

Transforming a design into a high-quality product is a challenge in metal additive manufacturing due to rare events which can cause defects to form. Detecting these events in-situ could, however, reduce inspection costs, enable corrective action, and is the first step towards a future of tailored material properties. In this study a model is trained on laser input information to predict nominal laser melting conditions. An anomaly score is then calculated by taking the difference between the predictions and new observations. The model is evaluated on a dataset with known defects achieving an F1 score of 0.821. This study shows that anomaly detection methods are an important tool in developing robust defect detection methods.

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