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A generalisable tool path planning strategy for free-form sheet metal stamping through deep reinforcement and supervised learning

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Title: A generalisable tool path planning strategy for free-form sheet metal stamping through deep reinforcement and supervised learning
Authors: Liu, S
Shi, Z
Lin, J
Yu, H
Item Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Due to the high cost of specially customised presses and dies and the advance of machine learning technology, there is some emerging research attempting free-form sheet metal stamping processes which use several common tools to produce products of various shapes. However, tool path planning strategies for the free forming process, such as reinforcement learning technique, derived from previous path planning experience are not generalisable for an arbitrary new sheet metal workpiece. Thus, in this paper, a generalisable tool path planning strategy is proposed for the first time to realise the tool path prediction for an arbitrary sheet metal part in 2-D space with no metal forming knowledge in prior, through deep reinforcement (implemented with 2 heuristics) and supervised learning technologies. Conferred by deep learning, the tool path planning process is corroborated to have self-learning characteristics. This method has been instantiated and verified by a successful application to a case study, of which the workpiece shape deformed by the predicted tool path has been compared with its target shape. The proposed method significantly improves the generalisation of tool path planning of free-form sheet metal stamping process, compared to strategies using pure reinforcement learning technologies. The successful instantiation of this method also implies the potential of the development of intelligent free-form sheet metal stamping process.
Date of Acceptance: 13-Mar-2024
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/111216
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-024-02371-w
ISSN: 0956-5515
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Journal / Book Title: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2024 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Publication Status: Published online
Online Publication Date: 2024-04-22
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