Intelligent optimal-setting control for grinding circuits of mineral processing process

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 730-743

  Zhou, Ping ^a,b   Chai, Tianyou ^a,b   Wang, Hong ^c  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF INTEGRATED AUTOMATION OF PROCESS INDUSTRY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning (CBR); Fuzzy inference; Grinding circuit; Grinding production rate; Intelligent optimal setting control; Neural network (NN); Product particle size

Indexed keywords

CASE-BASED REASONING (CBR); GRINDING CIRCUIT; GRINDING PRODUCTION RATE; INTELLIGENT OPTIMAL-SETTING CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); PRODUCT PARTICLE SIZE;

BITS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CASE BASED REASONING; FUZZY INFERENCE; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); GRINDING (MACHINING); MINERALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS; SILICATE MINERALS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70350006918     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2008.2011562     Document Type: Article

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