title: Reliable roll force prediction in cold mill using multiple neural networks.
abstract: The cold rolling mill process in steel works uses stands of rolls to flatten a strip to a desired thickness. The accurate prediction of roll force is essential for product quality. Currently, a suboptimal mathematical model is used. We trained two multilayer perceptrons, one to directly predict the roll force and the other to compute a corrective coefficient to be multiplied to the prediction made by the mathematical model. Both networks were shown to improve the accuracy by 30-50%. Combining the two networks and the mathematical model results in systems with an improved reliability.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pohang Univ. of Sci. and Technol.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoon