A unifying view of some process adjustment methods

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-293

  Del Castillo, Enrique ^a   Pan, Rong ^b   Colosimo, Bianca M ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Engineering process control; Kalman filtering; Linear quadratic control; Setup adjustment; Stochastic approximation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MACHINERY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LINEAR QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN CONTROLLER; MULTIHEAD FILLING MACHINE; MULTIVARIATE SETUP ADJUSTMENT; PROCESS ADJUSTMENT METHODS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0042867216     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2003.11980222     Document Type: Article

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