• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.65-77
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• 1999

In recent years, the quality requirements from the customers of hot rolled steel strip have been steadily increasing in diversity and strictness. To meet these quality requirements as well as to improve productivity, steel mills have been doing their efforts for developing high performance Automatic Gauge Control (AGC) system. However, it is very time consuming and also needs a lot of money to develop the new technologies of AGC in actual mill. So, there has been a demand for developing the Dynamic Hot Rolling Simulator since late 80's. It is a kind of software packages and can analyze the dynamic behaviors of hot finishing rolling process without laborious experiments in actual mill. It can also be used as a designing tool of Automatic Gauge Controller. In this work, the Dynamic Hot Rolling Simulator which is applicable to 6 sands hot strip mill rolling was developed. The MATLAB with SIMLINK was used as a software developer for making the main part of simulator because it is very powerful tool for modeling, integrating, controller design, and simulation. In this paper, the structures and the mathematical models of the simulator were briefly described and the results of simulation on the transient phenomena of hot rolling process with actual mill data were also presented.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.150.5-150
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• 2001

This paper deals with a modified repetitive control method for compensating automatic gauge control (AGC) to reduce the effect of skid mark which directly influence the quality of products in plate mill process. Since the skid mark on the plate have thermal difference, it makes a different stretching rate and deflection of thickness. Firstly, the (AGC) system and the plate mill process are described by considering function in each control levels. The skid mark of the plate in practical control fields is shown. Also, its frequency variation is given by on-line FFT analysis method. Secondly, a key idea of the modified repetitive control method with time varying period disturbance is represented and compared with standard repetitive control method. Lastly, in simulation ...

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07a
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• pp.442-444
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• 1993

The design problem of the AGC (Automatic Gauge Control) without a gauge-meter and a load-cell for a reversing rolling mill will be considered in this paper. The proposed controller in this paper is designed using only the linearly approximated relationships between a roll gab, a metal thickness and a pressing force. The data transfer delaying can be released by using these relationships. To show the validity of the proposed control method, the results of the computer simulation and the mathematical analysis will be presented in this paper.

• 전기의세계
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.42-47
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• 1975

포항종합제철에서는 국내 최초로 열연공장의 AGC(Automatic Gauge Control) 용으로 소형계산기를 1975년 7원 설치하여 현재 성공적으로 가동중에 있으며 앞으로 열연공장이외에 냉연공장, 소결공장, 고로공장, 분괴공장, 제강공장, Energy Center등에도 제어용 계산기를 도입할 예정으로 있다. 본고가 계산기 시스템 설계 및 사용에 관심이 있는 분들에게 조금이나마 참고가 되기를 바라며 개괄적이나마 외국의 실례를 살펴본 것으로 하였다. 앞으로 우리 자체의 것으로 보고할 기회가 오기를 기대하면서 많은 지도와 편달을 바라는 바이다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.735-741
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• 2015

In this paper, we suggest a dimensional controller to produce a different thickness strip without adding production facilities at the same steel. We describe the model for the non-linear thickness and speed setup, and drive a variation of the speed and thickness with Talyor expansion. The control algorithm is composed of 8 steps and the transient condition is added in order to maintain a mass flow between stands. A simulator is developed in order to verify the algorithm, and includes a non-linear rolling model, the tension model, AGC model, the disturbance model, and so on. From the simulation results by disturbances, we show that the thickness, tension and looper angle are converged to the set condition when we change the rolling conditions.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.847-858
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• 2001

This paper considers the control model identification and H(sub)$\infty$ controller design for a tandem cold mill (TCM). In order to improve the performance of the existing automatic gauge control (AGC) system based on the Taylor linearized model of the TCM, a new mathematical model that can complement the Taylor linearized model is constructed by using the N4SID algorithm based on subspace method and the least squares algorithm based on ARX model. It is shown that the identified model had dynamic characteristics of the TCM than the existing Taylor linearized model. The H(sub)$\infty$ controller is designed to have robust stability to the system parameters variation, disturbance attenuation and robust tracking capability to the set-up value of strip thickness. The H(sub)$\infty$ servo problem is formulated and it is solved by using LMI (linear matrix inequality) techniques. Simulation results demonstrate the usefulness and applicability of the proposed H(sub)$\infty$ controller.