Efe C. Balta

ORCID: 0000-0001-8596-8739
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Research Areas
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Iterative Learning Control Systems
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems
  • Injection Molding Process and Properties
  • Control Systems and Identification
  • Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
  • Petri Nets in System Modeling
  • Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
  • Advanced machining processes and optimization
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Laser Material Processing Techniques
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

ETH Zurich
2021-2025

Inspire
2023-2025

University of Michigan
2017-2023

Among the tenets of Smart Manufacturing (SM) or Industry 4.0 (I4.0), digital twin (DT), which represents capabilities virtual representations components and systems, has been cited as biggest technology trend disrupting engineering design today. DTs have in use for years areas such model-based process control predictive maintenance, however moving forward a framework is needed that will support expected pervasiveness DT evolution SM I4.0. A set requirements derived from analysis definitions,...

10.1109/access.2020.3000437 article EN cc-by IEEE Access 2020-01-01

Digital Twin (DT) is an emerging technology that has recently been cited as underpinning element of the digital transformation. DTs are commonly defined replicas components, systems, products, and services receive data from field to support intelligent decision-making. Although several frameworks for DT application in manufacturing have proposed, there no systematic methodology literature supports development scalable, reusable, interoperable, interchangeable, extensible solutions, while...

10.1109/access.2021.3065971 article EN cc-by IEEE Access 2021-01-01

Smart manufacturing (SM) systems utilize run-time data to improve productivity via intelligent decision-making and analysis mechanisms on both machine system levels. The increased adoption of cyber-physical in SM leads the comprehensive framework (CPMS) where data-enabled are coupled with resources plant floor. Due their nature, CPMS susceptible cyber-attacks that may cause harm system, products, or even human workers involved this context. Therefore, detecting efficiently timely is a...

10.1109/tase.2023.3243147 article EN IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2023-02-22

Digital Twin (DT) is one of the key enabling technologies for realizing promise Smart Manufacturing (SM) and Industry 4.0 to improve production systems operation. Driven by generation analysis high volume data coming from interconnected cyber physical spaces, DTs are real-time digital images systems, processes or products that help evaluate business performance. This paper proposes a novel DT architecture monitoring evaluation large-scale SM systems. An application manufacturing flow-shop...

10.1109/coase.2019.8843269 article EN 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2019-08-01

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10.2139/ssrn.4821588 preprint EN 2024-01-01

An important issue in anomaly detection smart manufacturing systems is the lack of consistency formal definitions anomalies, faults, and attacks. The term used to cover a wide range situations that are addressed by different types solutions. In this letter, we categorize anomalies machines, controllers, networks along with their mechanisms, unify them under common framework aid identification potential main contribution proposed categorization it allows gaps systems.

10.1109/lra.2017.2714135 article EN publisher-specific-oa IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2017-06-09

In current practice, product developers with customized small batch production needs come across the problem of finding capable and flexible manufacturers, whereas manufacturers face underutilization due to inconsistent demand. This paper presents a Production as Service (PaaS) framework connect users (consumers or developers) who have manufacturing existing underutilized resources. PaaS is cloud-based, centralized based on service-oriented architecture that abstracts steps individual...

10.1109/tase.2018.2842690 article EN publisher-specific-oa IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2018-06-27

Digital twin (DT) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are key enablers for smart systems. DTs of AM systems proposed in recent literature to provide additional analysis monitoring capabilities the physical processes. This work proposes a DT framework real-time performance anomaly detection fused deposition modeling (FDM) process. The can accommodate process measurement data model as cyber-physical system with continuous discrete event dynamics, allow development various...

10.1109/coase.2019.8843166 article EN 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2019-08-01

Due to the advancements in manufacturing system technology and ever-increasing demand for personalized products, there is a growing desire improve flexibility of systems. Multi-agent control one strategy that has been proposed address this challenge. The multi-agent relies on decision making cooperation number intelligent software agents coordinate various components shop floor. One most important product agent, which maker single part system. To adaptability agent its strategy, work...

10.1109/tase.2022.3156384 article EN cc-by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2022-03-17

Manufacturers are constantly looking to enhance the performance of their manufacturing systems by improving ability address disruptions and disturbances, while reducing cost maximizing quantity quality. Even though innovative mechanisms for adaptability flexibility continuously contribute smart evolutionary process, they generally stop short providing a capability coordinated on-line learning. This is especially true when that learning requires exploration outside established operational...

10.1109/access.2022.3165551 article EN cc-by IEEE Access 2022-01-01

10.1109/tase.2025.3565776 article EN IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2025-01-01

When manufacturing parts using material extrusion additive and anisotropic polymers, the mechanical properties of a manufactured component are strongly dependent on print trajectory orientation. We conduct non-planar slicing optimize trajectories to maximize alignment between deposition direction stress flow induced by predefined load case. The optimization framework considers manufacturability constraints in form uniform layer height line spacing. demonstrate method bearing bracket 5-axis...

10.1016/j.addma.2023.103628 article EN cc-by Additive manufacturing 2023-05-29

The world is in the midst of a new industrial revolution driven by Smart Manufacturing (SM). Though this paradigm promises increased flexibility, product customization, improved quality, efficient energy consumption, and productivity, SM systems are more susceptible to small faults that could cascade into major failures or even cyber-attacks enter plant. Flexibility reactivity/proactivity represent important means enhance systems' reliability, efficiency, robust response faults. Within...

10.23919/acc.2019.8814412 article EN 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) 2019-07-01

10.1109/case59546.2024.10711676 article EN 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2024-08-28

Purpose This paper aims to develop experimentally validated numerical models accurately characterize the cross-sectional geometry of deposited beads in a fused filament fabrication (FFF) process under various conditions. Design/methodology/approach The presented model is investigated fidelity with varying computational complexity. To this end, comparisons between Newtonian, non-newtonian, isothermal and non-isothermal are for extrusion polylactic acid material an FFF process. through...

10.1108/rpj-09-2021-0255 article EN Rapid Prototyping Journal 2022-05-28

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a strategy for repetitive tasks wherein information from previous runs leveraged to improve future performance. Optimization-based ILC (OB-ILC) powerful design framework constrained where measurements the process are integrated into an optimization algorithm provide robustness against noise and modelling error. This paper proposes robust controller linear processes based on forward-backward splitting algorithm. It demonstrates how structured uncertainty...

10.1109/lcsys.2022.3178877 article EN IEEE Control Systems Letters 2022-01-01

In most industrial additive manufacturing (AM) applications a set of AM machines (AM-Fleet) are used in parallel. An AM-Fleet often consists from various vendors and may include different processes. processes suffer poor repeatability within single build, between builds on the same machine, machine to machine. AM's lack robustness is attributed insufficient in-process monitoring feedback control, as well unknown modeling dynamics, process standards. To effectively monitor control AM-Fleets,...

10.1109/coase.2018.8560434 article EN 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2018-08-01
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