This paper proposes development of optimized heterogeneous ensemble models for prediction of responses based on given sets of input parameters for wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) processes, which have found immense applications in many of the present-day manufacturing industries because of their ability to generate complicated 2D and 3D profiles on hard-to-machine engineering materials. These ensembles are developed combining predictions of the three base models, i.e. random forest, support vector machine and ridge regression. These three base models are first framed utilizing the training datasets, providing predictions for all the responses under consideration. Based on these predictions, two optimization problems are formulated for each of the responses, while minimizing root mean squared error and mean absolute error, for subsequent development of two optimized ensembles whose predictions are the weighted sum of the predictions of the base models. The prediction performance of all the five models is ascertained through nine statistical metrics, after which a cumulative quality loss-based multi-response signal-to-noise (MRSN) ratio for each model is computed, for each of the responses, where a higher MRSN ratio indicates greater accuracy in prediction. This study is conducted using two experimental datasets of WEDM process. Overall, the optimized ensemble models having higher MRSN ratios than the base models are indicated to deliver better prediction accuracy.

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India

Department of Machining Assembly and Engineering Metrology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB Technical University of Ostrava 70800 Ostrava Czech Republic

Department of Mechanical Engineering Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R and D Institute of Science and Technology Avadi 600 062 India

Department of Production Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India

Jadara University Research Center Jadara University Irbid 21110 Jordan

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