HPN modeling, optimization and control law extraction for continuous steel processing

  • Authors:
  • Eiji Konaka;Kazuya Asano;Tatsuya Suzuki;Yoshitsugu Iijima

  • Affiliations:
  • Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan;JFE Steel Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan;Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;JFE Steel Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a new modeling and controller design technique for the steel sheet processing line based on Hybrid Petri Nets (HPN), Mixed Logical Dynamical Systems (MLDS) expressions and system identification techniques for hybrid systems. In the steel sheet processing line, the dynamics of sheets is represented by differential equation. On the other hand, some operations such as welding of the steel sheets are described by logical formulas. HPN can harmoniously integrate these two different aspects. The HPN expression can be transformed into a suitable formulation for numerical optimization. Based on this modeling, the closed-loop control can be realized by receding horizon scheme. At the next step, control laws are extracted from the results obtained by receding horizon scheme. The method identifies probability weighted ARX (PrARX) functions as a controller. Some simulations are conducted to demonstrate that the identified controller can achieve fast and near-optimal control.