5. Theoretical study and development of the new control

Industrial constraints to modernize and improve plant performance are such that it is no longer possible to stop or slow down production to test a new function.

The implementation of new techniques must not lead to disruptions in the process or in the products produced.

Innovative control strategies can therefore only be installed on industrial tools once they have been tested and proven in simulation.

Controls based on neural networks have been the subject of an in-depth simulation study. Alstom has numerous behavior models for the various components of a rolling mill tandem.

A process simulator simulating eccentricity phenomena was designed using MATLAB/SIMULINK from The Math-Works (figure 19...