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The major challenge in printable electronics fabrication is to effectively and accurately control a drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet printhead for high printing quality. In this paper, a prediction model based on Lumped Element Modeling (LEM) is proposed to search the parameters of driving waveform for obtaining the desired droplet properties. Although the evolution algorithms are helpful to solve this problem, the classical evolution algorithms may get trapped into local optimal due to the inefficiency of local search. To overcome it, we present an improved artificial bee colony algorithm based on K-means clustering (KCABC), which enhances the population diversity by dynamically clustering and increases the convergence rates by the modification of information communication in the employed bees’ phase. Combined with KCABC, the prediction model is applied to optimize the droplet volume and velocity of nano-silver ink for high printing quality. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed prediction model with KCABC plays a good performance in terms of efficiency and accuracy of searching the appropriate combination of waveform parameters for printable electronics fabrication.
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Sun, L., Hu, J., He, M., Chen, H. (2015). Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on K-Means Clustering for Droplet Property Optimization. In: Liu, H., Kubota, N., Zhu, X., Dillmann, R., Zhou, D. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9244. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22879-2_4
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