Bi-Classifier and orthogonal constraints jointly guided domain adaptation for wire-arc additive manufacturing health monitoring

The process health monitoring of wire arc additive manufacturing is significant for product quality. Most existing additive manufacturing process monitoring is based on image data such as temperature and spatters. However, these monitoring methods do not reflect status infor mation promptly. Moreover, the issue of limited cross-domain diagnostic generalization ability is faced by traditional neural networks for health state discrimination. To address the issues, this work puts forward a bi-classifier and orthogonal constraints jointly guided domain adaptation method based on acoustic emission signal for wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) health monitoring. Specifically, we first build a min-max optimization strategy using bi-classifier discrepancy loss to achieve feature adaptation of different domains. Furthermore, the orthogonal loss increases the dispersion of inter-class features and the aggregation of intra-class features. Finally, based on the acoustic emission signals from the WAAM process, the performance of the method is evaluated, and the comprehensive results prove its effectiveness and superiority.