Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Toolpath Generation for Thermal Uniformity in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process

no code implementations • 17 Feb 2024 • Mian Qin, Junhao Ding, Shuo Qu, Xu Song, Charlie C. L. Wang, Wei-Hsin Liao

Although various scan patterns have been studied to reduce possible accumulated stress, such as zigzag scanning vectors with changing directions or a chessboard-based scan pattern with divided small islands, most conventional scan patterns cannot significantly reduce residual stress.