Receding horizon control applied to optimal mine planning

Automatica

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1337-1342

  Goodwin, Graham C ^a   Seron, María M ^a   Middleton, Richard H ^a   Zhang, Meimei ^a,b   Hennessy, Bryan F ^a   Stone, Peter M ^b   Menabde, Merab ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mining industry; Model predictive control; Optimal mine planning; Receding horizon control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MINING INDUSTRY; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMAL MINE PLANNING; RECEDING HORIZON CONTROL;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 33745496642     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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