Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2008
Session Number:C7
Session:
Number:C7-3
Agent Based Simulation of Hot Strip Rolling Mills with Controllers
Keita Ohe, Koichi Nakano, Yoshihiro Abe, Masami Konishi,
pp.-
Publication Date:2008/7/7
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Currently, operators try to improve their operating situation under the changing production circumstances. It is an important problem in the future to maintain and to extend their technologies having been built up. For the purpose, methods and systems for technical inheritance of advanced techniques like the skilled engineers are needed which can train the unskilled operators and also assist skilled operators. In this research, simulation technology for hot strip rolling mills based on distributed agents is presented aimed to the diagnosis of hot strip rolling mills with controllers. In the operation of hot strip mills, human operators try to maintain rolling conditions in an appropriate situation. To help the operators, it is needed to build an intelligent rolling simulator which can check the whole rolling performances including control apparatus. To help human experts, it is necessary to simulate rolling phenomenon considering operating conditions in detail. It is also required to simulate results by changing control parameters. Visualization of three-dimensional rolling process, and simulation of defects in rolling mills that scarcely occur are studied. In the paper, development of agent based rolling simulator is presented.