Fuzzy control system for consumable DE-GMAW process

Author

Ding Fan ; Lihui Lu ; Yu Shi ; Jiankang Huang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Gansu Adv. Non-ferrous Mater., Lanzhou Univ. of Technol., Lanzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 July 2011

Firstpage

507

Lastpage

510

Abstract

Consumable DE-GMAW is a novel GMAW process with higher greater productivity. However, the consumable DE-GMAW process can hardly maintain stable without a proper control. Aiming at this problem, a rapid prototyping control platform was established for consumable DE-GMAW with a designed fuzzy controller using real-time target environment based on xPC. The developed experimental system makes it possible to sense, observe and control the consumable DE-GMAW process real-timely. On this basis, experiments were carried out to verify the feasibility of the fuzzy control system. The results show that good welding bead shape and stable welding process can be obtained through the developed fuzzy control system in consumable DE-GMAW process. This fuzzy control system lays a foundation for the consumable DE-GMAW process to become a practical manufacturing process.

Keywords

arc welding; control engineering computing; fuzzy control; process control; productivity; rapid prototyping (industrial); consumable DE-GMAW process; fuzzy control system; manufacturing process; productivity; rapid prototyping control; stable welding process; welding bead shape; xPC; Feeds; Fuzzy control; Metals; Process control; Voltage control; Welding; Wires; Consumable DE-GMAW; Fuzzy Control; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2011 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-180-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FSKD.2011.6019481

Filename

6019481