In-situ Anomaly Detection in Additive Manufacturing with Graph Neural Networks
This addresses the problem of reducing inspection costs and enabling corrective actions in manufacturing, but it is incremental as it applies existing anomaly detection methods to a new domain.
The paper tackled in-situ anomaly detection in metal additive manufacturing to identify rare defect-causing events, achieving an F1 score of 0.821 on a dataset with known defects.
Transforming a design into a high-quality product is a challenge in metal additive manufacturing due to rare events which can cause defects to form. Detecting these events in-situ could, however, reduce inspection costs, enable corrective action, and is the first step towards a future of tailored material properties. In this study a model is trained on laser input information to predict nominal laser melting conditions. An anomaly score is then calculated by taking the difference between the predictions and new observations. The model is evaluated on a dataset with known defects achieving an F1 score of 0.821. This study shows that anomaly detection methods are an important tool in developing robust defect detection methods.