Feedback control of melt pool temperature during laser cladding process

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1349-1356

  Song, Lijun ^a   Mazumder, Jyoti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct metal deposition (DMD); laser cladding; laser materials processing applications; model predictive control; temperature control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; DIRECT METAL DEPOSITION; GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROLLERS; H13 TOOL STEEL; HIGH-POWER DIODE LASERS; INPUT CONSTRAINTS; LASER DRIVE; LASER POWER; LASER-CLADDING PROCESS; MELT POOL TEMPERATURE; PROCESS STABILIZATION; REAL TIME; REFERENCE TEMPERATURE; STATE-SPACE; STATE-SPACE MODELS; SUB-SPACE METHODS; UNEVEN SURFACES;

FEEDBACK CONTROL; LAKES; LASER CLADDING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TOOL STEEL;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 80052881621     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2093901     Document Type: Article

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