Control of a continuous tandem cold metal rolling process

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1379-1390

  Pittner, John ^a   Simaan, Marwan A ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Flying gauge change; Multi input multi output control; Rolling mill control; State dependent Riccati equation; Tandem cold rolling

Indexed keywords

COLD ROLLING; COLD ROLLING MILLS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; METALS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RICCATI EQUATIONS; STRIP METAL;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; APPLIED (CO); COLD METAL; COLD ROLLING PROCESS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; MULTIVARIABLE PROCESSES; ON THE FLY (OTF); PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; ROLLING PROCESSES; STATE DEPENDENT RICCATI EQUATION (SDRE);

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 47549083077     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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