Methods and systems for determining application parameters for a coating process

A computer-implemented method for determining application parameters for applying a sample coating material to at least part of a surface of an object such that the resulting sample coating matches the properties of a reference coating, the method comprising the following steps:

• (i) providing to a computer processor via a communication interface
• data associated with the reference coating, said data including property data of the reference coating and respective threshold value(s) for said property data,
• application parameters, wherein the application parameters are randomly generated based on data associated with a coating material application equipment,
• data associated with the sample coating material, and
• at least one data-driven model, wherein each data-driven model is parameterized according to a training dataset, wherein the training dataset is based on sets of training data comprising application parameters, data associated with coatings and data associated with coating materials,
• (ii) determining, with the computer processor, data associated with the sample coating based on the provided data associated with the sample coating material, the provided application parameters and the provided data-driven model(s),
• (iii) determining, with the computer processor, the acceptability of the provided application parameters based on the data determined in step (ii) and the data associated with the reference coating provided in step (i),
• (iv) optionally determining optimized application parameters and repeating steps (ii) and (iii) using the determined optimized application parameters;
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• (v) providing via the communication interface the randomly generated application parameters or the optimized application parameters.