Smart AI makes all kinds of shapes on its own

Plastic is light, cheap, and can be made into any shape if heated, making it a'gift from the 20th-century god.' The key is to maintain its uniform quality but its sensitivity to process conditions makes processing autonomy difficult. It also takes a long time to change the process once it is set, and real-time optimization is deemed impossible due to the difference in actual outcomes. A research team consisting of Professor Junsuk Rho and doctoral student Chihun Lee of POSTECH's departments of mechanical and chemical engineering and Professor Seungchul Lee, Juwon Na in the MS-Ph.D. integrated program with Professor Seongjin Park in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have together developed a system that recommends process conditions for injection molding by combining artificial neural networks (Artificial Neural Network) and a random search. Various shapes can be obtained in real time through using this new system. These research findings were recently published in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.