Injection molding process optimization of a bi-aspheric lens using hybrid artificial neural networks (ANNs) and particle swarm optimization (PSO)

Abstract Injection molding of bi-aspheric lens using polycarbonate material with minimum variation in volumetric shrinkage is crucial for optical quality and is more challenging task among the researchers. In this paper, a hybrid artificial neural networks (ANN) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is used to predict the optimal process parameters of injection molding process of the bi-aspheric lens. The developed ANN network (7-13-6) was trained as well as tested with experimental data sampled from statistical methods. The well trained and tested ANN network was coupled with improved PSO algorithm as a hybrid ANN-PSO to optimize the injection molding process parameters. The optimized injection molding process parameters obtained from hybrid ANN-PSO algorithm are validated with experiments using J. S. W injection molding machine. It is observed from the lens quality parameters that the proposed hybrid ANN-PSO method optimized the injection molding process of the bi-aspheric lens with an optical power of 27.73 Diopter and the lens posses seventh order spherical aberrations.

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