EP1721024A1 - Verfahren zur beschichtung eines werkstücks - Google Patents
Verfahren zur beschichtung eines werkstücksInfo
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
- C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
- C23C4/00—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge
- C23C4/12—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge characterised by the method of spraying
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- the invention relates to a method for coating a workpiece according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
- thermal spraying is a coating process in which a thermally active material is melted and then sprayed or sprayed onto, for example, a surface of the workpiece to be coated. Since almost all fusible materials can be used, thermal spraying can be used to create coatings with different properties or functions, such as thermal insulation, corrosion protection or wear protection. With thermal spraying, there are almost unlimited combination possibilities between the material of the object to be coated and the thermally active material to be used for the coating. Depending on the heat source used, a distinction is made between different thermal spraying processes, for example plasma spraying, arc spraying, flame spraying or high-speed flame spraying. The selection of a suitable heat source and thus the selection of the appropriate thermal spraying process depends, for example, on the material to be used for the coating, the desired properties of the coating and the respective costs.
- a thermal spray powder according to EP 0 487 273 B1 is preferably used as the thermally active material for the coating.
- Such a spray powder according to EP 0 487 273 B1 is preferably applied to the workpiece to be coated by plasma spraying, a suitable plasmatron being shown, for example, in EP 0 851 720 B1.
- the quality control of the resulting coating plays an important role.
- the coated workpiece can only pass quality control and, if necessary, be further processed if the coating fulfills specified quality criteria.
- destructive test methods are used on a random basis for quality control.
- a quality control that destroys the workpiece is on the one hand costly and time-consuming, on the other hand only random checks can be carried out.
- the present invention is based on the problem of creating a novel method for coating a workpiece.
- a method for coating a workpiece according to claim 1 the spraying process is monitored online by recording properties of the particles in the spray jet and providing them as actual values, the actual values being compared directly or with parameters derived from the actual values with target values, and if the actual values or parameters deviate from the predetermined target values, process parameters for thermal spraying can be automatically adjusted by a controller based on a neural network.
- thermal spraying can be monitored online, and process parameters for thermal spraying can also be automatically adjusted.
- process parameters for thermal spraying can also be automatically adjusted.
- the method according to the invention avoids defective coatings and complex test methods. Due to the fact that an automated coating process is provided, errors caused by manual incorrect settings are avoided.
- a neuro-fuzzy controller which combines at least one neural network and fuzzy logic rules with one another and thus depicts statistical relationships between input variables and output variables of the neuro-fuzzy controller.
- Figure 1 is a highly schematic representation of a device for coating a workpiece to illustrate the inventive method.
- FIG. 2 shows the structure of a neural network used in the method according to the invention
- Fig. 3 shows the structure of a neuro-fuzzy controller used in the method according to the invention.
- the invention relates to a method for coating a workpiece by means of thermal spraying.
- thermal spraying a meltable material is melted and sprayed or sprayed in molten form onto a workpiece to be coated.
- plasma spraying the invention is, however, not intended to be limited to plasma spraying. Rather, the invention can also be used in all other thermal spray processes. However, the invention can be used particularly advantageously in plasma spraying.
- EP 0 851 720 B1 discloses a plasma matron suitable for plasma spraying.
- EP 0 487 273 B1 discloses a thermal spray powder which is suitable as a material for coating a workpiece.
- an arc is ignited during plasma spraying between a cathode and an anode of a plasma cartridge (not shown). This arc heats a plasma gas flowing through the plasmatron.
- Argon, hydrogen, nitrogen, helium or mixtures of these gases are used as plasma gases, for example. Heating the plasma gas creates a plasma jet that can reach temperatures of up to 20,000 ° C in the core.
- the material used for coating for example the thermal spray powder known from EP 0 487 273, is injected into the plasma jet using a carrier gas and melted there. Furthermore, this material to be used for the coating is accelerated to a high speed by the plasma jet. The material melted and accelerated in this way is applied to the workpiece to be coated, namely sprayed on.
- a spray jet is formed, the spray jet being formed on the one hand by the plasma jet and on the other hand by the particle jet of the molten material. The particles of the material impact with high thermal and kinetic energy on a surface of the workpiece to be coated and form a coating there. Depending on the parameters of the spraying process, the desired properties of the coating are formed.
- the coating process is dependent on various parameters of the coating process.
- thermal spraying processes such as plasma spraying
- the properties of the resulting coatings are subject to large variations even with apparently constant parameters of the coating process.
- the complex relationships between the process parameters and the properties of the coating that forms are responsible for this.
- the coating process is therefore extremely sensitive to fluctuations in the coating process.
- controller comprising at least one neural network.
- FIG. 1 shows, in a highly schematic manner, a spray jet 10 which occurs during plasma spraying.
- a camera 11 which in the exemplary embodiment shown is designed as a CCD camera.
- the image captured or determined by the camera 11 is fed to an image processing system (not shown in detail).
- properties of the optically monitored spray jet are derived from those of the camera
- FIG. 1 shows an evaluation pattern 12 for evaluating the data of the spray jet 10 recorded by the camera 11.
- the camera 11 determines a luminance distribution of the plasma beam 13 and a luminance distribution of the particle beam 14. From these luminance distributions, contour lines with the same luminous intensity are determined in the image processing system. Ellipses 15 are inscribed in such contour lines with the same luminous intensity as shown in FIG. 1. This is done both for the plasma beam 13 and for the particle beam 14.
- the ellipses 15 inscribed in the contour lines have characteristic geometric parameters.
- These geometric parameters of the ellipses 15 are semiaxes a and b the center of gravity of the ellipses, which can be identified in FIG. 1 by the coordinates Sx and Sy. From these characteristic data of the ellipses 15, the properties of the spray jet and ultimately the properties of the coating that forms during the spraying process. It should be pointed out that other properties of the spray jet can also be optically recorded and evaluated. Instead of or in addition to the luminance distribution, a particle temperature and / or particle speed and / or particle size of the spray jet can also be monitored. The properties of the resulting coating can also be concluded from these properties.
- the geometric parameters of the ellipses 15 determined from the optical monitoring of the spray jet, which correspond to the properties of the spray jet 10, are compared with predetermined target values for these properties or predetermined ellipse parameters. If a deviation of the determined properties (actual values) of the spray jet from the predetermined values (target values) for the properties is recognized, the process parameters for plasma spraying are automatically adjusted by a neuro controller or a neural network.
- the controller for carrying out the coating method according to the invention is based on a neural network.
- a neural network shows an example of such a neural network 16, which consists of two layers 17 and 18 of neurons 19 and 20, respectively.
- the neural network 16 according to FIG. 2 is a so-called forward-looking neural network.
- Each neuron 19 or 20 of the two layers 17 or 18 of the neural network 16 of FIG. 2 has an input signal a 3 1_1 and an output signal aj . 1 , with a link via weights j., - 1 and a bias bi 1 .
- the neurons 19 of the first layer 17 have a non-linear or sigmoid transfer function
- the neurons 20 of the second layer 18 have a linear transfer function.
- the so-called back propagation algorithm is used to train the neural network 16 shown in FIG. 2.
- An output vector for the 1st position of the neural network 16 is calculated from the input signals using the transfer function, from the weighting matrix and from the bias vector. The following applies:
- the network is trained with a large number of data records, the input data Xj .
- weights and the bias are set to random values. In order to finally determine their current values, many iterations are necessary to minimize the following error function.
- Such a neural network 16 With such a neural network 16, a relationship can be established between the process parameters for the thermal peaking and the required coating properties.
- a neural network is an adaptive, fault-tolerant and learning system. The use of such a neural network in a controller for the coating process allows particularly good process control.
- neural networks are adaptive systems, which patterns of data sets can be taught.
- the neural networks are thus able to recognize the learned patterns in unknown amounts of data, extrapolations and interpolations being possible.
- the neural network can only recognize patterns that precisely match the taught patterns.
- the neural network only comprises two layers of neurons.
- a neural network with a higher number of layers.
- a neuro-fuzzy controller that combines a neural network and fuzzy logic rules works with a higher number of layers. This is explained below with reference to FIG. 3.
- FIG. 3 shows the structure of a neuro-fuzzy controller 29 used according to a preferred development of the present invention, which in the example of FIG. 3 shows a total of four layers of neurons, namely a first layer 21 with neurons 22, a second layer 23 with neurons 24, a third layer 25 with neurons 26 and a fourth layer 27 with neurons 28.
- the neurons 22 of the first layer 21 form an input position of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 and are used to implement the so-called fuzzification.
- the neurons 28 of the fourth layer 27 form an initial position of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 and are used to implement the so-called defuzzification.
- the neurons 24 of the second layer 23 and the neurons 26 of the third layer 25 form intermediate layers (hidden layers) of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 and serve to implement the so-called fuzzy inference.
- the input variables a lr a 2 to a na of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 are converted into fuzzy variables that can be processed by the fuzzy inference.
- the input variables a x , a 2 to a na are so-called sharp input variables, which are converted into unsharp fuzzy input variables m a 1 / k , a ljk and ß ⁇ , k using fuzzification.
- the unsharp fuzzy input variables are fed to the fuzzy inference, namely the second layer 23, as input variables.
- these fuzzy input variables are determined using linguistic rules and fuzzy operators, in particular using minimum operators g lf g 2 , g to g ng and / or maximum operators x, h 2 to h nh , processed, the third layer 25 outputting fuzzy output variables b j, i, ⁇ b -j, i and ⁇ b j, i as a result.
- the fuzzy output variables are again so-called unsharp variables.
- These fuzzy output variables are converted into sharp output variables bi to h ⁇ of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 via the defuzzification implemented with the fourth layer 27.
- the neural network is given the relationship between the input variables a x , a 2 to a na and the output variables h x to b nt before learning in the form of linguistic fuzzy rules.
- the relationship between the input variables and the output variables is unknown and is created or learned independently by the neural network 16.
- the neural network 16 of the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 2 is, so to speak, a black box. This is avoided in the neurofuzzy controller 29 of the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 3.
- the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 of FIG. 3 By training the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 of FIG. 3, the relationship between the input variables erien, a to a na and the output variables b x to k nb is optimized.
- the structure of the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 is retained, which increases the transparency and enables diagnosis. Since the neuro-fuzzy controller 29 can process unsharp values, it is more fault-tolerant than the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 2.
- the neuro-fuzzy controller comprises four layers of neurons. However, it is possible to use a neuro-fuzzy controller with a higher number of layers. If the number of layers were higher, the number of layers representing the fuzzy inference and arranged between the initial position and the initial position would increase.
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