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Abstract—This paper presents an integrated method of intelli- tive control algorithm to develop a multivariable controller for
gent decoupling control as a solution to the problem of adjusting zone-temperature control based on a linear discrete-time model
the zone temperatures in a regenerative pusher-type reheating of the process. Wang et al. [3] used a decoupling technique
furnace. First, a recurrent neural network (NN) for estimating the
zone temperatures and a heat transfer model for predicting billet and the Smith compensation method to solve the problems of
temperatures are built based on data from actual furnace opera- the strong coupling between variables and the time delay in
tions. Next, a decoupling strategy in combination with a fuzzy NN a reheating furnace. These control methods are all based on
is used to control the zone temperatures. The architecture of the a linear model of the process; but since a reheating furnace
controller is based on a fuzzy c-means clustering approach; and is highly nonlinear, they do not provide satisfactory control
the weights are optimized by a hybrid particle swarm optimization
(HPSO) algorithm, which integrates the global optimization of performance. Kim et al. [4] combined principal-component
density-based selection and the precise search of clonal expansion analysis with a hierarchy of expert networks to extract an
in an immune system with the fast local search of particle swarm inverse model for calculating three zone temperature settings
optimization. HPSO is also used to optimize the zone temperature for a given target temperature of billets at the exit. However, that
settings to minimize three items: fuel consumption, the tempera- model did not take the thickness, type, initial temperature, or
ture gradient within a billet, and the error between the mean and
target temperatures of a billet at the furnace exit. The results of rolling speed of billets into account, even though these factors
actual runs demonstrate the validity of this method. have a significant influence on zone temperatures. In addition,
the processing time was very long (1 min/generation). Sibarani
Index Terms—Decoupling control, fuzzy neural network (NN),
hybrid particle swarm optimization (HPSO), optimal setting, and Samyudia [6] employed H∞ control theory to minimize
regenerative pusher-type reheating furnace. the temperature gradient within a billet to optimize the zone
temperature settings of a reheating furnace, and demonstrated
the validity of this method through simulations. However, due
I. I NTRODUCTION
to the complexity and large uncertainties of an actual reheating
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the RNN. There are three inputs: the vector of gas fluxes details) based on the following assumptions about the billet
u(k) := [up (k), uh (k), us (k)]T ; the air–gas ratio L(k); and reheating process.
the one-step-delayed zone temperature vector T̂z (k − 1). The 1) The furnace temperature is a function of time and position
RBF-RNN model is given by along the length of the furnace.
2) Heat transfer can be ignored between a billet and the
T̂z (k) = f T̂z (k − 1), u(k), L(k) . (1) water-cooled skid pipes, and within a billet in the lateral
and lengthwise directions of the furnace.
3) The heat exchange coefficient of the surface of a billet is
The RBF-RNN is trained using a sequential learning algo- constant in each zone.
rithm that combines growing and pruning with an extended
Kalman filter (GAP-EKF). The sequential learning algorithm
using the GAP-EKF starts with no hidden neurons. It adds III. Z ONE -T EMPERATURE O PTIMIZATION AND C ONTROL
hidden neurons according to the significance of the present PID decoupling is a conventional control method for multi-
observation, or regulates network parameters by means of the variable systems [31]. It requires precise values for the parame-
EKF and determines whether a hidden neuron should be re- ters of the plant to carry out satisfactory decoupling. To obtain
moved based on the pruning criterion. This results in a compact good control performance for the combustion process, a zone-
RNN. Sequential learning is faster than batch learning in online temperature control system is established based on an FNNDC,
applications because it does not require retraining [28]; and for which the structure is determined by fuzzy c-means clus-
an EKF converges more quickly than a back-propagation (BP) tering and the weight parameters are adjusted using an HPSO
algorithm in the calculation of the gradient of the cost function algorithm. In addition, HPSO is also used to determine the
[29]. Therefore, the convergence speed of a sequential GAP- optimal zone temperature settings for the furnace.
EKF is higher than that of a dynamic BP algorithm, which is
usually used to train an NN. The selection of the parameters for
the RBF-RNN is discussed in [30]. A. Configuration of Furnace Temperature Control System
The temperature distribution of the furnace is influenced
by the flux and calorific value of the gas, the rolling speed,
C. Estimation of Billet Temperature
the initial billet temperature, periodic changes in the gas flux
After being loaded into the reheating furnace, a billet moves caused by the opening and closing of the gate valves, etc.
through the preheating, heating, and soaking zones. During this Furthermore, these factors interact with each other. Due to the
process, the billet is heated by radiation from the atmosphere strong nonlinearity of the process, conventional linear control
and the walls of the furnace, and loses heat to water-cooled methods cannot meet practical technical requirements. This
skid pipes by thermal conduction and convection. A 1-D heat- section presents an HPSO-based adaptive FNNDC method that
transfer model is employed to estimate the temperature distri- solves the temperature control problem. The configuration of
bution and mean temperature of billets (see [5] and [32] for the control system is shown in Fig. 2. The output of the system
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where ζ is an air surplus coefficient with a value in the range adaptation of an NN, we devised an FNNDC to implement
[1.05, 1.20] for an actual production process. zone-temperature control. It adapts to environmental changes
An analysis of actual runs showed that the combustion by means of parameter adjustments made by an HPSO. It em-
process was bounded-input bounded-output (BIBO) stable. Re- ploys an FNN to make expert forward inferences and consists of
stricting the control inputs produced by the FNNDC for the three FNN inference machines (FNNIMs), one for each zone,
three zone temperatures and the PID controllers for the gas and and a defuzzifier with a decoupling function. Since the three
air fluxes within prescribed ranges is a very practical strategy to FNNIMs all have the same structure, we use the one for the
ensure the BIBO stability of the control system. preheating zone as an example, and explain it in detail. It is
described by
B. Decoupling Temperature Control Based on FNN Rpi : IF ep (k) ∈ Aepi and ėp (k) ∈ Aėpi
A heat transfer analysis showed the general direction of heat THEN δup (k) is chosen from Bpi
flow in the furnace to be from the exit toward the entrance i = 1, . . . , mp . (4)
(hotter to cooler); so the temperature of one zone strongly
influences that of the zone(s) before it. We exploit this fact mp denotes the number of fuzzy rules, which is equal to the
to solve the coupling problem by employing a controller with number of hidden neurons. Aepi , Aėpi , and Bpi are the ith fuzzy
the structure in Fig. 3 and by adjusting the weights connecting sets of ep , ėp , and δup , respectively. The hidden layer clusters
the hidden neurons of the heating zone to the output neuron the inputs of the network and employs the following Gaussian
of the preheating zone, and those of the soaking zone to that of function to calculate the activations of the neurons in the first
the heating zone. The inputs of the FNNDC are the vector of layer [33]:
the temperature error e(k) := [ep (k), eh (k), es (k)]T , and the φpi (k) = exp − [xp (k) − cpi ]T Δ−2 pi [xp (k) − cpi ] ,
vector of the rate of change in the error ė(k) := [ėp (k), ėh (k),
ės (k)]T . The output is δu(k) := [δup (k), δuh (k), δus (k)]T . i = 1, . . . , mp (5)
The temperature error is given by where xp (k) := [ep (k), ėp (k)]T is the input vector; and the
e(k) = r(k) − Tz (k). (3) vector of cluster centers cpi and the width matrix Δpi are
given by
The decoupling control law extracted from the knowledge
cepi σepi 0
of experts is simple and static. It can easily be represented cpi = Δpi = (6)
cėpi 0 σėpi
by an FNN. FL is a model-free method that depends on the
experience of experts and heuristic evaluation, but it lacks where cepi and cėpi are the cluster centers of ep and ėp ,
the capabilities of online self-learning and self-adjustment. respectively, and σepi and σėpi are the corresponding widths.
By fusing the knowledge representation of FL with the self- The fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm [34] relies on training
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patterns to determine the cluster centers. Analyzing the clus- where k1 , k2 , and k3 (k1 , k2 k3 ) are weighting coefficients;
tering results and taking the requirements of simplicity and and ts is the evaluation time for the FNNDC (ts < tr ). The
precision into account, we determined the numbers of clusters values of k1 , k2 , and k3 should be selected so that the three
for the three zones to be mp = 21, mh = 26, and ms = 27. items in (11) have the same order of magnitude.
The width of the corresponding Gaussian function is equal to The optimization problem is to find an optimal temperature
the average distance between a cluster center and the training vector r = [rp , rh , rs ]T such that
patterns, and it takes values in the ranges [39, 100] for ep (k)
and [40, 105] for ėp (k). min Js (r) (12)
φpi (k) is the product of the input membership values in
the ith rule of the FNNIM. It indicates the strength of the subject to the physical constraints
ith rule with regard to the inputs. Note that the weights connect-
ing the output and hidden layers wppi (i = 1, . . . , mp ) are the rL ≤ r ≤ rH (13)
changes in gas flux corresponding to the ith rule; and whpi (i =
1, . . . , mh ) cancels the influence of the heating zone on the and technical constraints, such as
preheating zone. The output layer defuzzifies a fuzzy inference
by calculating the linearly weighted sum of the outputs of the |δTbm | ≤ 30 ◦ C, |δTbsc | ≤ 30 ◦ C. (14)
hidden neurons
m
In (13), rL and rH are the permissible lower and upper
p h
m
wppi φpi (k) + whpi φhi (k) limit vectors, respectively. The optimal temperature vector, r,
i=1 i=1 is determined by the HPSO algorithm described below.
δup (k) = m (7)
p mh To reduce the thickness of iron scale on a billet caused by
φpi (k) + φhi (k)
i=1 i=1 surface melting and carbon loss during the reheating process,
the surface temperature of the billet should not be very high;
where wppi and whpi are adjusted by the HPSO algorithm and the furnace temperature cannot exceed the permissible up-
explained below. Note that the call interval of the HPSO is per limit for the fireproof materials. Moreover, the temperature
much longer than the control period of the FNNDC because it is gradient of a billet must be kept under a certain level; and this
necessary to optimize the FNNDC only when the performance along with the strong interaction between zones necessitates
deteriorates owing to a change in status, such as a change in that the gradient of the furnace temperature in the lengthwise
billet type. The performance of the FNNDC is evaluated using direction also be under a certain level.
Nr
2
Jc =
M r(k) − T̂z (k)
(8) IV. HPSO
k=7
We previously used PSO to optimize the weights of the
where M = diag{0.2, 0.3, 0.5} represents the weights for the FNNDC and determine the optimal zone temperature settings;
preheating, heating, and soaking zones; and Nr is the pre- but we found it to be unsatisfactory due to the problems of pop-
scribed number of evaluation steps. In this paper, Nr was set ulation regression, low accuracy, and local minima. Therefore,
to 20. Since we focused on the steady state, we ignored the we developed an HPSO algorithm by incorporating density-
transient response (k = 1, . . . , 6). based selection and clonal expansion into PSO to eliminate
those problems.
C. Optimization of Furnace Temperature
Determining the optimal zone temperature settings is essen- A. PSO
tial to the temperature control of the combustion process. For
a billet at the exit, we let the difference between the mean Based on a metaphor for social behavior, Kennedy and
∗ Eberhart [20] developed PSO as a parallel evolutionary com-
temperature (Tbm ) and the target temperature (Tbm ) be
putation method in 1995. PSO can solve many nonlinear opti-
∗
δTbm := Tbm − Tbm (r) (9) mization problems with a multimode structure. It starts with a
population of random candidates, which are conceptualized as
and the difference between the temperature of the surface (Tbs ) particles. Each particle has two attributes: position and velocity.
and that of the center (Tbc ) be The velocity (speed and direction) of particles is adjusted so
that each particle flies toward a global best based on its own
δTbsc := Tbs (r) − Tbc (r). (10)
experience and the social information of the particle swarm, i.e.,
The following performance index is used to formulate the population. The search procedure, or in other words, the flight
decision problem: of a particle, seeks through the solution space. Let Np be the
population size of the particle swarm; pj (n) be the best position
ts that the jth particle has achieved so far for j = 1, . . . , Np ;
1 2 1 2 1
Js (r) = k1 δTbm (r) + k2 δTbsc (r) + k3 u(r, t) dt. pg (n) be the global best position that the whole population
2 2 2 has achieved so far; and zj (n) and vj (n) be the position
0
(11) and velocity, respectively, of the jth particle at the nth iteration.
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Then, zj (n) and vj (n) are adjusted using the following kine- precision can be improved by applying a clonal operator to the
matics equations: global best position pg (n). Cloning creates new particles in the
⎧ neighborhood of pg (n), which is defined to be
⎨ vj (n + 1) = γ(n)vj (n) + α1 ψ1 [pj (n) − zj (n)]
+ α2 ψ2 [pg (n) − zj (n)] (15) SN (pg (n)) = {z : z − pg (n) ≤ R, z ∈ Ω, R > 0} (20)
⎩
zj (n + 1) = zj (n) + vj (n + 1)
where Ω is the space of candidate solutions, and R is the radius
where γ(n) is an inertial constant, and α1 and α2 are constants
of extension. The selection of R involves a tradeoff: a large
representing a cognitive and a social component, respectively,
R reduces the convergence speed of the optimization, and a
that reflect to what degree a particle is directed toward a good
small R reduces the search precision. Thus, it is important to
position. The stochastic exploration capability of the particle
choose an appropriate value. In this paper, it was in the range
swarm is provided by introducing two random constants ψ1
[0.05, 0.1].
and ψ2 .
In the evolution stage, particles with a high fitness usually
Regarding the problem of optimal control, the particle posi-
survive. However, if the density of high-fitness particles is too
tion zj (n) consists of the connecting weights of the FNNDC in
high, particles with low fitness but good evolutionary tenden-
Fig. 3 when those weights are being determined; and it consists
cies will be discarded. This reduces the diversity of the popula-
of the three zone temperature settings when those settings are
tion, which can lead to local minima. Introducing density-based
being determined.
selection into PSO suppresses the regressive tendency and the
The vector vj (n) indicates the velocity of the search for an
occurrence of local minima, thus enhancing the global-search
optimal solution. During flight, the jth particle is attracted to-
capability. The density of particles in the neighborhood of the
ward the best position, which is determined by its own previous
jth one is given by
best position pj (n) and the global best position, pg (n), of the
whole population. The strength of attraction is determined by 1
two products: α1 times ψ1 and α2 times ψ2 . Without loss of D(zj ) = , j = 1, . . . , N (21)
N
generality, set |F (zl ) − F (zj )|
l=1
α1 = α2 . (16)
where N ≥ Np . N = Np + m1 + m2 is the size of the inter-
ψ1 and ψ2 are generated in the range (0, 1), with all numbers mediate population created by performing one step of a PSO,
having the same probability of being selected. A suitable γ(n) cloning, and mutation operation. m1 and m2 are the numbers
prevents a particle from changing direction too frequently; and of particles created by cloning and mutation, respectively. The
during the optimization process, it decreases linearly choice of m1 is critical because it strongly influences the con-
trol performance. While a larger m1 provides a more accurate
γmax − γmin local solution, it also results in lower diversity in the population,
γ(n) = γmax − n (17)
nm which could lead to a local minimum. In this paper, a suitable
where n is the iteration number, and nm denotes the maximum value of m1 was determined from an analysis of the sensitivity
number of iterations. γmax and γmin are the maximum and of the performance index to m1 .
minimum of γ(n), respectively. The probability that the jth particle will be selected is
The fitness of the jth particle is given by √
q
F (zj )
1 D(zj )
F (zj ) = (18) P (zj ) = √ , j = 1, . . . , N. (22)
a + J(zj )
N q
F (zl )
D(zl )
l=1
where J(zj ) is the performance evaluation function (8) or
(11). a is a small positive number that guarantees that the the constant q in (22) was selected to maximize
In this paper, √
denominator is larger than zero. In this paper, the parameters the range of q F for the given domain of F . It is clear from
were chosen to be (22) that the greater the fitness of the jth particle is, the higher
the probability that it will be selected is. In addition, the more
Np ∈ [20, 50], α1 , α2 ∈ [1.6, 2.4] particles there are that are similar to the jth particle, the less
(19)
γmin = 0.1, γmax = 2.2, a = 0.1. chance there is that the jth particle will be selected to be one of
Even though PSO quickly produces an optimal solution, the the new parents. This gives particles with a low fitness a chance
problems of population regression, low accuracy, and local to evolve.
minima need to be dealt with. HPSO, which integrates clonal expansion and density-based
selection with PSO, solves the problems of determining the
optimal weights of the FNNDC and the optimal zone temper-
B. HPSO ature settings for a reheating furnace. It involves the following
The drawbacks of PSO can be overcome by incorporating steps.
the density-based selection and clonal expansion [27] of the Step 1) Determine the parameters for optimization. Select
immune system approach into PSO. For example, the search the population size Np ; the same value for α1 and
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TABLE I
δTbm AND δTbsc OF BILLET AT FURNACE EXIT
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TABLE II
COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE INDEX (11) FOR HPSO AND OTHER
METHODS OF OPTIMIZING ZONE-TEMPERATURE SETTINGS
was 1160 ◦ C. The population size was 25, and the maximum
number of generations was 30. Regarding the coefficients for
the various methods, those in the previous section were used
for the N–M simplex method; the crossover and mutation rates
were 0.8 and 0.08 for GA; those in (24) were used for HPSO
and PSO; and q = 3 in (22) was used for HPSO. The GA
used real-coded individuals, the roulette wheel operator for
selection, and a single crossover [33]. It employed the same
methods to create an initial population and carry out mutations
as those used in PSO and HPSO. Clearly, GA is better than
N–M simplex; PSO is superior to GA; and HPSO is superior to
PSO. For nm = 100, Fig. 7 shows that HPSO provides higher
search accuracy because it overcomes the regression problem.
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is low when m1 is small, and the diversity of the population comparing it with an FNNDC is of great significance, and will
decreases as m1 increases. be carried out in the future.
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