Application of neural network to the supervisory control of a reheating furnace in the steel industry

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1009-1014

  Kim, Young Il ^a   Moon, Ki Cheol ^b   Kang, Byoung Sam ^c   Han, Chonghun ^c   Chang, Kun Soo ^c  

^a Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

^b POSCO   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

HME; PCA; PLS; Reheating furnaces; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

BILLETS (METAL BARS); IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; METALLURGICAL FURNACES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER CONCEPT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 0032131634     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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