On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms

This paper elucidates the computation of optimal controls for steel annealing processes as hybrid systems which comprise of one or more furnaces integrated with plant-wide planning and scheduling operations. A class of hybrid system is considered to capture the trade-off between metallurgical qualit...

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Main Authors: Arumugam, M. Senthil, Chandramohan, Aarthi, Murthy, Gajula Ramana
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Published: 2011
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author Arumugam, M. Senthil
Chandramohan, Aarthi
Murthy, Gajula Ramana
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Chandramohan, Aarthi
Murthy, Gajula Ramana
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description This paper elucidates the computation of optimal controls for steel annealing processes as hybrid systems which comprise of one or more furnaces integrated with plant-wide planning and scheduling operations. A class of hybrid system is considered to capture the trade-off between metallurgical quality requirement and timely product delivery. Various optimization algorithms including particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) with time varying inertia weight methods, PSO with globally and locally tuned parameters (GLBest PSO), parameter free PSO (pf-PSO) and PSO like algorithm via extrapolation (ePSO), real coded genetic algorithm (RCGA) and two-phase hybrid real coded genetic algorithm (HRCGA) are considered to solve the optimal control problems for the steel annealing processes (SAP). The optimal solutions including optimal line speed, optimal cost, and job completion time and convergence rate obtained through all these optimization algorithms are compared with each other and also those obtained via the existing method, forward algorithm (FA). Various statistical analyses and analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and hypothesis t-test are carried out in order to compare the performance of each method in solving the optimal control problems of SAP. The comparative study of the performance of the various algorithms indicates that the PSO like algorithms, pf-PSO and ePSO are equally good and are also better than all the other optimization methods considered in this chapter.
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spelling mmu-33672014-03-05T02:48:27Z http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3367/ On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms Arumugam, M. Senthil Chandramohan, Aarthi Murthy, Gajula Ramana TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) This paper elucidates the computation of optimal controls for steel annealing processes as hybrid systems which comprise of one or more furnaces integrated with plant-wide planning and scheduling operations. A class of hybrid system is considered to capture the trade-off between metallurgical quality requirement and timely product delivery. Various optimization algorithms including particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) with time varying inertia weight methods, PSO with globally and locally tuned parameters (GLBest PSO), parameter free PSO (pf-PSO) and PSO like algorithm via extrapolation (ePSO), real coded genetic algorithm (RCGA) and two-phase hybrid real coded genetic algorithm (HRCGA) are considered to solve the optimal control problems for the steel annealing processes (SAP). The optimal solutions including optimal line speed, optimal cost, and job completion time and convergence rate obtained through all these optimization algorithms are compared with each other and also those obtained via the existing method, forward algorithm (FA). Various statistical analyses and analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and hypothesis t-test are carried out in order to compare the performance of each method in solving the optimal control problems of SAP. The comparative study of the performance of the various algorithms indicates that the PSO like algorithms, pf-PSO and ePSO are equally good and are also better than all the other optimization methods considered in this chapter. 2011-09 Article PeerReviewed text en http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3367/1/35.pdf Arumugam, M. Senthil and Chandramohan, Aarthi and Murthy, Gajula Ramana (2011) On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms. Optimization and Engineering, 12 (3). pp. 371-392. ISSN 1389-4420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11081-011-9143-5 doi:10.1007/s11081-011-9143-5 doi:10.1007/s11081-011-9143-5
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Arumugam, M. Senthil
Chandramohan, Aarthi
Murthy, Gajula Ramana
On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title_full On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title_fullStr On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title_full_unstemmed On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title_short On the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
title_sort on the optimal control of steel annealing processes via various versions of genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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