CAREER: Model-Based Control of Machining Processes and Scalability for Manufacturing System Control

该学院早期职业发展（Career）奖的研究目标是在工艺层面为离散零件加工创建一种基于模型的控制方法，并证明该方法可以扩展到有效控制加工操作系统。实现这些目标的方法将是将基于模型的技术从化学过程工业应用到机械零件生产的控制中，并解决扩展方法以控制加工网络的问题，特别是模型形式的适应和系统复杂性的不确定性变化。这项工作的教育目标是改善南卡罗来纳州年轻技术思想家的指导和经验，并吸引未来潜在的研究人员追求制造业的研究生教育。这将通过利用与南卡罗来纳州正在进行的工作来实现，以增加“技术之门”项目的教师教育结构，该项目是全国非营利性中学技术课程的一部分，鼓励妇女和少数民族学生的参与。项目结构包括每年一次的教师研讨会，以交流和展示研究成果，以及半年一次的访问日，以访问克莱姆森研究中心，让中学生亲自探索研究。如果成功，这项工作的更广泛的影响将是更有利可图的机械加工和更有竞争力的制造高质量的零部件，汽车，航空航天和消费品行业。结果将通过合作机床组织及其35家设备公司的合作伙伴网络公布，在国家层面上对制造质量和盈利能力产生积极影响。教育活动的更广泛的影响将是教育和直接暴露在他们人生计划的关键决策点上的学生从事研究职业的可能性，并建立一个分层的指导计划，由资助的学生指导克莱姆森大学的本科生团队准备概念的演示。这些努力将有助于提高可供美国制造商使用的工程专业学生的质量和数量。

The research objectives of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award are to create a model-based control method for discrete parts machining at the process level, and to show that this method can be scaled to effectively control systems of machining operations. The approach to accomplishing these objectives will be to apply model-based techniques from the chemical process industry to the control of machined parts production, and to address issues of scaling the method to control of machining networks, especially model form adaptation and changes in uncertainty with system complexity. The educational objectives of this work are to improve the instruction and experience of young technical thinkers in South Carolina, and to attract future potential researchers to pursue a graduate education in manufacturing. This will be accomplished through leveraging ongoing work with the state of South Carolina to augment the instructor education structure for the Gateway to Technology program, part of a nationwide nonprofit middle-school technology curriculum that encourages the involvement of women and minority students. The project structure includes an annual teacher workshop to communicate and demonstrate research results, as well as semiannual visiting days to the Clemson research center for middle school students to explore research hands-on.If successful, the broader impacts of this work will be more profitable machining and more competitive manufacturing of high-quality parts for automotive, aerospace and consumer products industries. The results will be promulgated through the collaborating machine tool organization and their partner network of 35 equipment companies, positively impacting manufacturing quality and profitability at a national level. Broader impacts of the educational activities will be to educate and directly expose students who are at a critical decision point in their life plan to possibilities of a research career and to establish a layered mentoring program whereby sponsored students will mentor teams of Clemson undergraduates to prepare demonstrations of the concepts. These efforts will help to improve the quality and number of engineering students available to US manufacturers.