Review Article

A Survey of Machine Learning in Friction Stir Welding, including Unresolved Issues and Future Research Directions

Table 6

Impact of machine learning on different types of welding process.

Welding typeTarget outputMachine learning model usedParameter consideredResultRef.

Resistance spot weldingPrediction of nugget sizeFinite element model (FEM)Temperatures, electrode displacements, and electric voltage dropsMuch simulation offers many labeled data due to physics-based simulation data. There is no measurement sensor precision issue in data generated from a simulation model[119]

Laser beam weldingDuring deep penetration welding, the capillary depth of the keyhole is calculatedOptical coherence tomography (OCT)Laser power, welding speed, radiation mode, angle of incidenceDiscrete wavelet transformation helps to classify the weld quality based on height parameter, and low pass Chebyshev helps in reducing the amount of process[120, 121]

Resistance spot welding [52]Nugget width predictionDeep neural networkStrength and weight of the material, cost, manufacturability, and environmentalismIn RSW joints, DNN has much higher precision and lower variation for nugget width prediction because RSW data is highly nonlinear and complex[122]

Ultrasonic metal weldingPrediction of USMW joint strengthRegression model, ANN, and ANFISWeld pressure, vibration amplitude, weld time, and T-peel failure loadsThe number of neurons, learning rate, and momentum facture of the ANN set to 10, 0.08, and 0.6. MFs are also counted as 4 in the ANFIS system[123]

Submerged arc weldingPrediction of transient temperature in SAW processMultilinear regressionVoltage, trolley speed, stick out, currentProves to be the robust method since computation cost was less and the estimation of transient temperature was good. Also, help to a swift resolution of several decision processes[124]