A new strategy for control of tandem cold metal rolling

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4130-4135

  Pittner, John ^a,b   Simaan, Marwan A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (E ,3E) PROCESS; (MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; COLD METAL; CONTROL ENGINEERS; CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; MULTI INPUT/MULTI OUTPUT (MIMO); NEW STRATEGY; NON LINEAR MODELING; NON-LINEARITIES; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PROCESS VARIABLES (PV); ROLLING OPERATIONS; STATE DEPENDENT ALGEBRAIC RICCATI EQUATION (SDARE); SUB-PROBLEMS;

COLD ROLLING MILLS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; METALS; MIM DEVICES; RICCATI EQUATIONS; STRIP METAL;

COLD ROLLING;

EID: 46449136424     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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