3D-EDM: Early Detection Model for 3D-Printer Faults

With the advent of 3D printers in different price ranges and sizes, they are no longer just for professionals. However, it is still challenging to use a 3D printer perfectly. Especially, in the case of the Fused Deposition Method, it is very difficult to perform with accurate calibration. Previous studies have suggested that these problems can be detected using sensor data and image data with machine learning methods. However, there are difficulties to apply the proposed method due to extra installation of additional sensors. Considering actual use in the future, we focus on generating the lightweight early detection model with easily collectable data. Proposed early detection model through Convolutional Neural Network shows significant fault classification accuracy with 96.72% for the binary classification task, and 93.38% for multi-classification task respectively. By this research, we hope that general users of 3D printers can use the printer accurately.