2014
M. Bruschetta, F. Maran, A. Beghi.
A non-linear MPC based motion cueing imple- mentation for a 9 DOFs dynamic simulator platform. Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2014, pp. 2517--2522, 2014 [
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, C. Corazzol, M. Rampazzo, F. Simmini, G.A. Susto.
A One-Class SVM Based Tool for Machine Learning Novelty Detection in HVAC Chiller Systems. 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, pp. 1953-1958, 2014
Abstract:
Faulty operations of Heating, Ventilation and Air
Conditioning (HVAC) chiller systems can lead to discomfort
for the occupants, energy wastage, unreliability and
shorter equipment life. Such faults need to be detected
early to prevent further escalation and energy losses.
Commonly, data regarding unforeseen phenomena and
abnormalities are rare or are not available at the moment
of HVAC systems installation: for this reason in this paper
an unsupervised One-Class SVM classifier employed as a
novelty detection system to identify unknown status and
possible faults is presented. The approach, that exploits
Principal Component Analysis to accent novelties w.r.t.
normal operations variability, has been tested on a HVAC
literature dataset.
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A. Di Virgilio, M. Allegrini, A. Beghi, J. Belfi, N. Beverini, F. Bosi, B. Bouhadef, M. Calamai, G. Carelli, D. Cuccato, E. Maccioni, A. Ortolan, G. Passeggio, A. Porzio, M. Ruggiero, R. Santagata, S. Solimeno, A. Tartaglia.
A ring lasers array for fundamental physics. Comptes Rendus Physique,, vol. 15(10), pp. 868--874, 2014 [
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M. Bruschetta, F. Maran, A. Beghi.
An MPC approach to the design of motion cueing algorithms for a high performance 9 DOFs driving simulator. Proceedings of the 2014 Driving Simulation Conference, 2014 [
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D. Cuccato, A. Beghi, J. Belfi, N. Beverini, A. Ortolan, A. Di Virgilio.
Controlling the nonlinear inter cavity dynamics of large he-Ne laser gyroscopes. Metrologia, vol. 51pp. 97--107, 2014 [
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Efficient algorithms for the reconstruction and prediction of atmospheric turbulence in AO systems. Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC14), pp. 2430 - 2435, 2014
Abstract:
Technological advances and the ever-growing human quest for improving
the resolution of telescope observations are motivating the design of
larger and larger ground telescopes: indeed, the larger is the telescope
lens diameter, the better is the diffraction limited resolution of the
telescope. Unfortunately, the terrestrial atmospheric turbulence, if not
properly compensated, negatively affects the telescope observations,
limiting its real resolution. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are used in
large ground telescopes in order to compensate the effect of the
atmosphere, and hence to make the real telescope resolution be
determined by the diffraction properties of the lens.
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Efficient algorithms for the reconstruction and prediction of atmospheric turbulence in AO systems. Proc. of the European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 2430--2435, 2014
Abstract:
Technological advances and the ever-growing human quest for improving the resolution of telescope observations are motivating the design of larger and larger ground telescopes: indeed, the larger is the telescope lens diameter, the better is the diffraction limited resolution of the telescope. Unfortunately, the terrestrial atmospheric turbulence, if not properly compensated, negatively affects the telescope observations, limiting its real resolution. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are used in large ground telescopes in order to compensate the effect of the atmosphere, and hence to make the real telescope resolution be determined by the diffraction properties of the lens. AO systems exploit the measurements of wavefront sensors to estimate the current values of the atmospheric turbulence, and compensate its effect by properly adapting the shape of a set of deformable mirrors. As the size of the telescope lenses is increasing, then the size of the AO system (e.g. the number of deformable mirror actuators and the size of the wavefront sensor) is increasing as well. This causes the increase of the computational burden needed to compute a proper compensation of the effect of the atmosphere. Consequently, as the potential telescope resolution increases, the task of the AO systems becomes more challenging. Motivated by the need of providing AO solutions useful for the next generations of ground telescopes, then a number of efficient algorithms have been recently considered in the literature to solve the problems related to the AO system. This paper considers the combination of a recently proposed very efficient phase reconstruction method, namely the CuRe, with a properly defined Kalman filter in order to obtain a dynamic compensation of the atmospheric turbulence. The performance of the proposed approach is investigated in some simulations.
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, M. Rampazzo, F. Simmini.
Energy efficient control of HVAC systems with ice cold thermal energy storage. Journal of Process Control, vol. 24(6), pp. 773–781, 2014 [
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A. Beghi, F. Marcuzzi, M. Rampazzo, M. Virgulin.
Enhancing the simulation-centric design of Cyber-Physical and Multi-Physics Systems through co-simulation. 17th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2014), 2014 [
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N. Beverini, M. Allegrini, A. Beghi, J. Belfi, B. Bouhadef, M. Calamai, G. Carelli, D. Cuccato, A. Di Virgilio, E. Maccioni, A. Ortolan, A. Porzio, R. Santagata, A. Tartaglia.
Measuring general relativity effects in a terrestrial lab by means of laser gyroscopes. Laser Physics, vol. 24(7), pp. 074005, 2014 [
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Nonstationary multiscale turbulence simulation based on local PCA. ISA Transactions, 2014
Abstract:
Turbulence simulation methods are of fundamental importance for
evaluating the performance of control strategies for Adaptive Optics
(AO) systems. In order to obtain a reliable evaluation of the
performance a statistically accurate turbulence simulation method has to
be used. This work generalizes a previously proposed method for
turbulence simulation based on the use of a multiscale stochastic model.
The main contributions of this work are: first, a multiresolution local
PCA representation is considered. In typical operating conditions, the
computational load for turbulence simulation is reduced approximately by
a factor of 4, with respect to the previously proposed method, by means
of this PCA representation. Second, thanks to a different low
resolution method, based on a moving average model, the wind velocity
can be in any direction (not necessarily that of the spatial axes).
Finally, this paper extends the simulation procedure to generate, if
needed, turbulence samples by using a more general model than that of
the frozen flow hypothesis.
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, M. Lissandrin, M. Rampazzo.
Oil-Free Centrifugal Chiller Optimal Operation. The 2014 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2014), 2014 [
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A. Saccon, J. Hauser, A. Beghi.
Virtual rider design: Optimal manoeuvre definition and tracking. Modelling, Simulation and Control of Two-Wheeled Vehicles, pp. 83--115, 2014 [
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2013
G.A. Susto, A. Schirru, S. Pampuri, D. Pagano, S. McLoone, A. Beghi.
A Predictive Maintenance System for Integral Type Faults based on Support Vector Machines: an Application to Ion Implantation. Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, 2013
Abstract:
In semiconductor fabrication processes, effectivemanagement of maintenance operations is fundamental todecrease costs associated with failures and downtime. PredictiveMaintenance (PdM) approaches, based on statistical methodsand historical data, are becoming popular for their predictivecapabilities and low (potentially zero) added costs. We presenthere a PdM module based on Support Vector Machines forprediction of integral type faults, that is, the kind of failuresthat happen due to machine usage and stress of equipmentparts. The proposed module may also be employed as a healthfactor indicator. The module has been applied to a frequentmaintenance problem in semiconductor manufacturing industry,namely the breaking of the filament in the ion-source ofion-implantation tools. The PdM has been tested on a realproduction dataset.
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G.A. Susto, A. Beghi.
A virtual metrology system based on least angle regression and statistical clustering. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, vol. 29(4), pp. 362-376, 2013
Abstract:
In semiconductor manufacturing plants, monitoring physical properties of all wafers is crucial to maintain good yield and high quality standards. However, such an approach is too costly, and in practice, only few wafers in a lot are actually monitored. Virtual metrology (VM) systems allow to partly overcome the lack of physical metrology. In a VM scheme, tool data are used to predict, for every wafer, metrology measurements. In this paper, we present a VM system for a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. On the basis of the available metrology results and of the knowledge, for every wafer, of equipment variables, it is possible to predict CVD thickness. In this work, we propose a VM module based on least angle regression to overcome the problem of high dimensionality and model interpretability. We also present a statistical distance-based clustering approach for the modeling of the whole tool production. The proposed VM models have been tested on industrial production data sets.
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A. Saccon, J. Hauser, A. Beghi.
A virtual rider for motorcycles: Maneuver regulation of a multibody vehicle model. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 21(2), pp. 332--346, 2013 [
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P. Facco, A. Masiero, A. Beghi.
Advances on Multivariate Image Analysis for Product Quality Monitoring. Journal of Process Control, vol. 23pp. 89--98, 2013 [
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, M. Rampazzo, F. Simmini.
Modeling and Control of HVAC Systems with Ice Cold Thermal Energy Storage. Proceedings of the 52nd Conference on Decision and Control, 2013 [
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Multiscale modeling for the simulation of not completely frozen flow turbulence. 3rd Adaptive Optics for Extreme Large Telescopes conference (AO4ELT3), 2013
Abstract:
Models typically used to simulate the
influence of atmospheric turbulence on ground telescope observations are
usually based on the frozen flow hypothesis. However, the frozen flow
model of the atmosphere is valid at time scales of the order of
tens/hundreds of milliseconds. This paper generalizes a previous model
for turbulence simulation to ensure reliable tests of AO system
performance in realistic working conditions. The proposed method relies
on the use of two simulation models: First, the part of turbulence that
shows a coherent flow at short time scales is simulated by means of a
multiscale autoregressive-moving average model, which allows to
efficiently simulate (with computational complexity O(n)) the coherent
evolution of the turbulence. Secondly, an approach similar to that
considered for dynamic textures, is used to simulate aberrations caused
by processes that evolve on much longer time scales. The proposed
procedure is tested on simulations.
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Multiscale phase screens synthesis based on local PCA. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA 2013), 2013
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Motivated by the increasing importance of Adap- tive Optics (AO) systems for improving the real resolution of large ground telescopes, and by the need of testing the AO system performance in realistic working conditions, in this paper we address the problem of simulating the turbulence effect on ground telescope observations at high resolution. The multiscale approach presented here generalizes that in [3]: First, a relevant computational time reduction is obtained by exploiting a local spatial principal component analysis (PCA) representation of the turbulence. Furthermore, differently from [3], the turbulence at low resolution is modeled as a moving average (MA) process. While in [3] the wind velocity was restricted to be directed along one of the two spatial axes, the approach proposed here allows to evolve the turbulence indifferently in all the directions. In our simulations the pro- posed procedure reproduces with good accuracy the theoretical statistical characteristics of the turbulent phase.
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Multiscale phase screens synthesis based on local PCA. Applied Optics, vol. 52(33), pp. 7987--8000, 2013
Abstract:
Motivated by the increasing importance of adaptive optics (AO) systems
for improving the real resolution of large ground telescopes, and by the
need of testing the AO system performance in realistic working
conditions, in this paper we address the problem of simulating the
turbulence effect on ground telescope observations at high resolution.
The procedure presented here generalizes the multiscale stochastic
approach introduced in our earlier paper [Appl. Opt. 50, 4124 (2011)],
with respect to the previous solution, a relevant computational time
reduction is obtained by exploiting a local spatial principal component
analysis (PCA) representation of the turbulence. Furthermore, the
turbulence at low resolution is modeled as a moving average (MA)
process, while previously [Appl. Opt. 50, 4124 (2011)] the wind velocity
was restricted to be directed along one of the two spatial axes, the
use of such MA model allows the turbulence to evolve indifferently in
all the directions. In our simulations, the proposed procedure
reproduces the theoretical statistical characteristics of the turbulent
phase with good accuracy.
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
On the computation of Kalman gain in large adaptive optics systems. Proceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED13), pp. 1374-1379, 2013
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In large ground telescopes the Adaptive Optics (AO) system aims at compensating the atmosphere effect on telescope measurements, and, the use of optimal filtering is fundamental for such task. This work is motivated by two important characteristics of new AO systems: on one hand, because of the request of very high measurement resolutions, the size of new telescopes, and of their sensors, is quickly increasing in the last decades, thus imposing to the AO systems the analysis of larger amount of data. On the other hand, the optimal filter has to be periodically updated according to temporal changes in atmosphere characteristics. Hence, it is of fundamental importance the use of computationally efficient algorithms for the update of the optimal filter gain.
This paper proposes some changes to a recently presented method for the efficient computation, in the frequency domain, of the Kalman gain for large AO systems [15]. The proposed changes, which mainly aim at correcting some issues due to the conversion spatial–frequency domain, and viceversa, allow to compute a better approximation of the optimal Kalman gain, and, consequently, significantly improve the performance of the AO system.
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A. Cenedese, A. Beghi, A. Masiero.
On the estimation of atmospheric turbulence layers for AO systems. Proceedings of the ECC13 conference, pp. 4196-4201, 2013
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In current and next generation of ground tele- scopes, Adaptive Optics (AO) are employed to overcome the detrimental effects induced by the presence of atmospheric turbulence, that strongly affects the quality of data transmission and limits the actual resolution of the overall system. The analysis as well as the prediction of the turbulent phase affecting the light wavefront is therefore of paramount importance to guarantee the effective performance of the AO solution.
In this work, a layered model of turbulence is proposed, based on the definition of a Markov-Random-Field whose pa- rameters are determined according to the turbulence statistics. The problem of turbulence estimation is formalized within the stochastic framework and conditions for the identifiability of the turbulence structure (numbers of layers, energies and velocities) are stated. Finally, an algorithm to allow the layer detection and characterization from measurements is designed. Numerical simulations are used to assess the proposed procedure and validate the results, confirming the validity of the approach and the accuracy of the detection.
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G.A. Susto, S. McLoone, A. Schirru, S. Pampuri, D. Pagano, A. Beghi.
Prediction of Integral Type Failures in Semiconductor Manufacturing through Classification Methods. 18-th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2013
Abstract:
Smart management of maintenances has become fundamental in manufacturing environments in order to decrease downtime and costs associated with failures. Predictive Maintenance (PdM) systems based on Machine Learning (ML) techniques have the possibility with low added costs of drastically decrease failures-related expenses; given the increase of availability of data and capabilities of ML tools, PdM systems are becoming really popular, especially in semiconductor manufacturing. A PdM module based on Classification methods is presented here for the prediction of integral type faults that are related to machine usage and stress of equipment parts. The module has been applied to an important class of semiconductor processes, ion-implantation, for the predictionof ion-source tungsten filament breaks. The PdM has been tested on a real production dataset.
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, L. Corso, M. Rampazzo, F. Simmini.
Process History-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis for VAVAC Systems. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2013), 2013 [
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Turbulence modeling and Kalman prediction for the control of large AO systems. Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2013) - accepted, 2013
Abstract:
Measurements of large ground telescopes are af- fected by the presence of the terrestrial atmospheric turbulence: local changes of the atmospheric refraction index (e.g. due to wind and temperature variations) cause a non flat surface of the wavefront of light beams incoming on the telescope, thus degrading the quality of the observed images. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are of fundamental importance to reduce such atmospheric influence on ground telescopes and thus to obtain high resolution observations. The goal of the AO system is that of estimating and compensating the atmospheric turbulence effect by properly commanding a set of deformable mirrors.
Because of delays in the closed loop system, the Kalman filter plays an important role in ensuring an effective control perfor- mance by providing good atmosphere predictions. However, the need of periodically updating the Kalman filter gain because of changes in the atmosphere characteristics, the increase of telescopes and sensors resolutions and the high sampling rate impose quite strict restrictions to the computational load for computing the Kalman gain.
Motivated by the above considerations, some strategies have been recently considered in the system theory and astronomical communities for the efficient computation of the Kalman gain for large AO systems. Specifically, this paper presents some changes to a recently proposed procedure: the proposed approach, which exploits some results in the control theory of distributed systems, computes an approximation of the optimal gain in the frequency domain exploiting the spatial homogeneity of the system. Then, the control strategy takes advantage of some information on the turbulent phase dynamic, that is estimated from the turbulence measurements. Performances of the proposed method are investigated in some simulations.
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2012
G.A. Susto, A. Schirru, S. Pampuri, A. Beghi.
A Predictive Maintenance System based on Regularization Methods for Ion-Implantation. 23rd IEEE/SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, pp. 175-180, 2012
Abstract:
Ion Implantation is one of the most sensitiveprocesses in Semiconductor Manufacturing. It consists inimpacting accelerated ions with a material substrate and isperformed by an Implanter tool. The major maintenanceissue of such tool concerns the breaking of the tungstenfilament contained within the ion source of the tool. Thiskind of fault can happen on a weekly basis, and theassociated maintenance operations can last up to 3 hours.It is important to optimize the maintenance activities bysynchronizing the Filament change operations with otherminor maintenance interventions. In this paper, a PredictiveMaintenance (PdM) system is proposed to tackle such issue;the filament lifetime is estimated on a statistical basisexploiting the knowledge of physical variables acting onthe process. Given the high-dimensionality of the data,the statistical modeling has been based on RegularizationMethods: Lasso, Ridge Regression and Elastic Nets. Thepredictive performances of the aforementioned regularizationmethods and of the proposed PdM module have beentested on actual productive semiconductor data.
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G.A. Susto, A. Beghi, C. De luca.
A Predictive Maintenance System for Epitaxy Processes based on Filtering and Prediction Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, vol. 25pp. 638 - 649, 2012
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Silicon Epitaxial Deposition is a process strongly influenced by wafer temperature behaviour, that has to be constantly monitored to avoid the production of defective wafers. However, temperature measurements are not reliable and the sensors have to be appropriately calibrated with some dedicated procedure. A Predictive Maintenance (PdM) System is proposed here with the aim of predicting process behaviour and scheduling control actions on the sensors in advance. Two different prediction techniques have been employed and compared: the Kalman predictor and the Particle Filter with Gaussian Kernel Density Estimator. The accuracy of the PdM module has been tested on real industrial production datasets.
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A. Beghi, L. Cecchinato, G. Cosi, M. Rampazzo.
A PSO-based algorithm for optimal multiple chiller systems operation. Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 32,pp. 31-40, 2012 [
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A. Beghi, M. Bruschetta, F. Maran.
A real time implementation of MPC based motion cueing strategy for driving simulators. Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2012, pp. 6340--6345, 2012 [
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S. Longo, L. Cecchinato, M. Rampazzo, M. Bonaldi, A. Beghi, L. Conti.
A vibration-free, thermally controlled setup for mechanical thermal noise measurements. The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, vol. 57,2012 [
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A. Beghi, F. Maran, A. De simoi.
A virtual environment for the design of power management strategies for hybrid motorcycles. Latest trends in Circuits Automatic Control and Signal Processing Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Circuits Systems Control Signals (cscs ’12), pp. 198-203, 2012 [
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G.A. Susto, A. Beghi.
An Information Theory-based Approach to Data Clustering for Virtual Metrology and Soft Sensors. 3rd International conference on CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, CONTROL, SIGNALS, pp. 198--203, 2012
Abstract:
Soft Sensors (SSs) are on-line estimators of “hardly to be measured” quantities of a process. The difficultyin measuring can be related to economic or temporal costs that cannot be afforded in a high-intensivemanufacturing production. In semiconductor manufacturing this technology goes with the name of Virtual Metrology(VM) systems. While a lot of efforts in research have been produced in the past years to identify the bestregression algorithms for these statistical modules, small amount of work has been done to develop algorithms fordata clustering of the entire production. This paper contains a new Information Theory-based approach to dataclustering for Virtual Metrology and Soft Sensors; the proposed algorithm allows to automatically split the datasetinto groups to be equally modeled. The proposed approach has been tested on real industrial dataset.
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G.A. Susto, A. Schirru, S. Pampuri, G. De nicolao, A. Beghi.
An Information-Theory and Virtual Metrology-based approach to Run-to-Run Semiconductor Manufacturing Control. Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 358 -363, 2012
Abstract:
Virtual Metrology (VM) module have become popular in the
past years and they are now widely adopted in the
semiconductor plants. However, nowadays, still few works
have been presented to deal with the interaction between VM
and Run-to-Run (R2R), the most common control approach in
the fabs. We present in this paper a new strategy to
integrate VM with R2R based on Information Theory measure.
The proposed control method penalizes statistical measure
based on their statistical distance from the physical
measure. This new approach also cope with the virtual loop
control, where the R2R runs for several process iterations
without in-situ measures, but based only on VM predictions.
The results are compared with the actual state-of-the-art.
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A. Beghi, M. Bruschetta, F. Maran, D. Minen.
An MPC approach to the design of motion cueing algorithms for small size driving simulators. Proceedings of the Driving Simulation Conference 2012, pp. --, 2012 [
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G.A. Susto, S. Pampuri, A. Schirru, G. De nicolao, S. McLoone, A. Beghi.
Automatic Control and Machine Learning for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Review and Challenges. 10th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, 2012
Abstract:
Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most technologically advanced industrial sectors. Process quality and control are critical for decreasing costs and increasing yield. The contribution of automatic control and statistical modeling in this area can drastically impact production performance. For this reason in the past decade major collaborative research projects have been undertaken between fab industries and academia in the areas of Virtual Metrology, Predictive Maintenance, Fault Detection, Run-to-Run control and modeling. In this paper we review some this research, discuss its impact on production and highlight current challenges.
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A. Beghi, J. Belfi, N. Beverini, B. Bouhadef, D. Cuccato, A. Di Virgilio, A. Ortolan.
Compensation of the laser parameter fluctuations in large ring-laser gyros: a Kalman filter approach. applied optics, vol. 51pp. 7518-7528, 2012 [
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G.A. Susto, A. Beghi.
Least Angle Regression for Semiconductor Manufacturing Modeling. Control Applications (CCA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 658--663, 2012
Abstract:
In semiconductor manufacturing plants, monitoringphysical properties of all wafers is fundamental in order tomaintain good yield and high quality standards. However, suchan approach is too costly and in practice only few wafers in a lotare actually monitored. Virtual Metrology (VM) systems allowto partly overcome the lack of physical metrology. In a VMscheme, tool data are used to predict, for every wafer, metrologymeasurements. In this paper, we present a VM system for aChemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process. On the basis ofthe available metrology results and of the knowledge, for everywafer, of equipment variables, it is possible to predict CVDthickness. In this work we propose a VM module based onLARS to overcome the problem of high dimensionality andmodel interpretability. The proposed VM models have beentested on industrial production data sets.
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S. Pampuri, A. Schirru, G.A. Susto, G. De nicolao, A. Beghi, C. De luca.
Multistep Virtual Metrology Approaches for Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes. Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 91 -- 96, 2012
Abstract:
In semiconductor manufacturing, state of the art for wafer
quality control relies on product monitoring and feedback
control loops; the involved metrology operations, performed
by means of scanning electron microscopes, are particularly
cost-intensive and time-consuming. For this reason, it is
not possible to evaluate every wafer: in common practice, a
small subset of a productive lot is measured at the
metrology station and devoted to represent the whole lot.
Virtual Metrology (VM) methodologies are able to obtain
reliable predictions of metrology results at process time,
without actually performing physical measurements; this
goal is usually achieved by means of statistical models,
linking process data and context information to target
measurements. Since semiconductor manufacturing processes
involve a high number of sequential operations, it is
reasonable to assume that the quality features of a certain
wafer (such as layer thickness, critical dimensions,
electrical test results) depend on the whole processing and
not only on the last step before measurement. In this
paper, we investigate the possibilities to improve the
Virtual Metrology quality relying on knowledge collected
from previous process steps. We will present two different
scheme of multistep VM, along with dataset preparation
indications; special consideration will be reserved to
regression techniques capable of handling high dimensional
input spaces. The proposed multistep approaches will be
tested against actual data from semiconductor manufacturing
industry.
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Nonstationary turbulence simulation with an efficient multiscale approach. Proc. of the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC12), 2012
Abstract:
This paper considers the problem of simulating the turbulence effect on ground telescope observations. The approach presented here is an evolution of a recently proposed approach [3]. The main contributions with respect to [3] are: First, the Haar transform at the basis of the multiscale model in [3] is shown to be equivalent to a local PCA representation. This equivalence allows to reduce the computational complexity of the simulation algorithm by neglecting the components in the signal with lower energy. Furthermore, the simulation of nonstationary turbulence is obtained by properly changing the values of the multiscale model: Such change is eased by the invariance of the PCA spatial basis with respect to the change of turbulence statistical characteristics. The proposed approach is validated by means of some simulations.
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G.A. Susto, S. Pampuri, A. Schirru, A. Beghi.
Optimal Tuning of Epitaxy Pyrometers. 23rd IEEE/SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, pp. 294-299, 2012
Abstract:
Epitaxy is a process strongly dependent onwafer temperature. Unfortunately, the performance ofthe pyrometers in charge of sensing wafer temperaturedeteriorate with the usage. This represents the majormaintenance issue for epitaxy process engineers who haveto frequently calibrate pyrometers emissivity coefficient. Atthe present state the change of the emissivity coefficient isheuristically based on fab tradition and process engineersexperience. We present a statistical tool to map therelationship between change in the temperature readingsand emissivity adjustments. The module has been testedon real industrial dataset.
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A. Saccon, J. Hauser, A. Beghi.
Trajectory exploration of a rigid motorcycle model. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, vol. 20pp. 424--437, 2012 [
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A. Beghi, A. Cenedese, A. Masiero.
Turbulence Modeling and Estimation for AO systems. Proc. of the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2012
Abstract:
Nowadays, the adaptive optics (AO) system is of fundamental importance to reduce the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the images formed on large ground telescopes. In this paper the AO system takes advantage of the knowledge of the current turbulence characteristics, that are estimated by data, to properly control the deformable mirrors. The turbulence model considered in this paper is based on two assumptions: considering the turbulence as formed by a discrete set of layers moving over the telescope lens, and each layer is modeled as a Markov-Random-Field. The proposed Markov-Random-Field approach is exploited for estimating the layers’ characteristics. Then, a linear predictor of the turbulent phase, based on the computed information on the turbulence layers, is constructed. Since scalability and low computational complexity of the control algorithms are important requirements for real AO systems, the computational complexity properties of the proposed model are investigated. Interestingly, the proposed model shows a good scalability and an almost linear computational complexity thanks to its block diagonal structure. Performances of the proposed method are investigated by means of some simulations.
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