Pareto optimisation of certain quality characteristics in laser cutting by ANN-GA approach
by Miloš Madić; Miroslav Radovanović; Dušan Petković
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), Vol. 9, No. 4, 2017

Abstract: Determining the optimal laser cutting conditions for simultaneous improvement of multiple cut quality characteristics is of great importance. The aim of the present research is to simultaneously optimise three cut quality characteristics such as surface roughness, kerf taper angle and burr height in CO₂ laser cutting of stainless steel. The laser cutting experiment was conducted based on Taguchi's experimental design using L₂₇ experimental plan by varying four parameters such as laser power, cutting speed, assist gas pressure and focus position at three levels. Using the obtained experimental results three mathematical models for the prediction of cut quality characteristics were developed using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The developed response models for cut quality characteristics were taken as objective functions for the multi-objective optimisation based on the genetic algorithm. The obtained optimal solution sets were used to generate 2-D and 3-D Pareto fronts. The overall improvement of about 16% was registered in multiple cut quality characteristics.

Online publication date: Mon, 10-Jul-2017

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