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Safe optimization with grey-box information: Application to composites autoclave processing improvement on the fly

Roohi, Mohammad Amin
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Ramezankhani, Milad
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Kamgarpour, Maryam  
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March 1, 2025
Composites Part C: Open Access

In the manufacture of aerospace-grade composites in the autoclave, the curing process plays a crucial role as it directly governs the quality of the final parts. Maintaining the part's thermal history, namely, thermal lag and exotherm, under predetermined thresholds as well as achieving a uniform degree of cure throughout the material thickness can result in the desired product quality. Currently, for many such manufacturing applications, the optimization of the curing process (often conducted via trial-and-error) is highly expensive and time-consuming and occasionally leads to failed products. In order to address this problem, in this paper, a Safe Optimization approach is proposed. The suggested framework allows for the on-the-fly optimization of curing process configurations while avoiding interruptions typically encountered during trials. In other words, the proposed algorithm is capable of consistently yielding “pass” products as it navigates toward the optimal configuration. In particular, we introduce a hybrid optimization framework that combines a genetic algorithm, namely NSGA-II, using inexpressive stimulation (white-box) data for finding a safe initial starting point and then, the (black-box) safe logarithmic barrier method for enhancing the product quality presumably using experimental data on-the-fly. Herein, however, as proof of concept, we employ synthetic data throughout the framework in a case study.

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DOI
10.1016/j.jcomc.2025.100560
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85217919196

Author(s)
Roohi, Mohammad Amin

The University of British Columbia

Ramezankhani, Milad

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Kamgarpour, Maryam  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Milani, Abbas S.

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Date Issued

2025-03-01

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Composites Part C: Open Access
Volume

16

Article Number

100560

Subjects

Aerospace composites processing

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Genetic algorithms

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Grey-box information

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Safe logarithmic barrier

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Safe optimization

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Unknown constraints and objective functions

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February 25, 2025
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