15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMPUTER CONTROL
Alexei Lisounkin*, Gerhard Schreck*, Jonas Paiukγ, Franco Muratoriγ,
Mariana Vialeγ, Andrés Viglioccoγ, Aldo Z. Cipriano, Marcos C. Orchard,
Benjamin Kuchen, Andrés Lage, Francisco Rossomando,
Hans-Werner SchmidtЭ, Ramón Galánµ , Agustin Jimenezµ,
* Fraunhofer-IPK, Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany
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Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. San Martin 1109 (O)
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This paper presents the principles, as well as a prototype implementation, of a model-based supervisory system for the hot steel milling process. Here, a set of simulation models builds the core of the system and possess updated processes information. A model-based setup calculation and tendency prediction, as well as an online fault detection and equipment diagnostics, enhance the performance of the facility control procedure. Concepts of hierarchical modeling, distributed control and decentralized process data acquisition are studied in order to design a methodology for low-cost development of advanced supervision and control systems in industry.
Keywords: Steel industry, Modeling, Model-based control, Diagnosis, Fuzzy supervision
Session slot T-Tu-A21: Posters of Manufacturing and Instrumentation/Area code 1f : Low Cost Automation