Design For Control and Optimization of Flow Front Progression in Liquid Molding Processes

摘要

The processing of composite materials has advanced from being a fine art to a well-studied science. The Advanced Materials Intelligent Processing Center (AMIPC) program demonstrates the use of process models, advanced technologies and data-centric algorithms to improve the quality and consistency of composites processing. As part of the AMIPC program, the Intelligent Process Control group at Honeywell developed a design environment for on-line control and disturbance rejection in Resin Transfer Molding process. In this paper we present a "design for control" methodology that proved to be a well suited for intelligent control of RTM processes. The major point addressed in this research is "Control issues need to be analyzed DURING process design".