Automation in Mining, Mineral, and Metal Processing 1989


Book Description

Hardbound. Changing market conditions leading to increased competitiveness, higher quality control, reduced costs and greater capacity mean that the development and automation in mining and in mineral and metal processing is facing challenging times. The Symposium reflects the growing need amongst mining and related industries to improve and develop their automated systems to tackle those new challenges. The papers provide essential information covering areas such as mining, electric furnaces, steel, blast furnaces, rolling and computer applications.







Automation in Mining, Mineral, and Metal Processing, 1992


Book Description

Hardbound. The purpose of the Symposium was to exchange ideas and approaches relating to the latest development of factory automation in mining, mineral and metal processing. This volume begins with the four plenary papers, concerning the automation of mineral processes, automation in iron and steel industries, sensor technology and artificial intelligence technique. 38 technical papers are included, covering mining and mineral automation, blast furnace automation, steel making automation, MIS & CIMS in the steel industry and measuring technique.




Expert Systems in Mineral and Metal Processing


Book Description

Within the metal and mining industries, the use of expert systems for monitoring and control is on the increase. The content of each paper had to include both expert systems, neural networks or fuzzy control. The papers were evenly contributed from industry, universities and research institutes, thus this book provides a valuable insight into the theoretical as well as the practical applications currently in use within the industry.




Control of Distributed Parameter Systems 1989


Book Description

This volume presents state-of-the-art reports on the theory, and current and future applications of control of distributed parameter systems. The papers cover the progress not only in traditional methodology and pure research in control theory, but also the rapid growth of its importance for different applications. This title will be of interest to researchers working in the areas of mathematics, automatic control, computer science and engineering.




Automatic Control in Aerospace 1989


Book Description

The papers presented at the Symposium covered the areas in aerospace technology where automatic control plays a vital role. These included navigation and guidance, space robotics, flight management systems and satellite orbital control systems. The information provided reflects the recent developments and technical advances in the application of automatic control in space technology.




Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1989


Book Description

Papers presented at the workshop are representative of the state-of-the art of artificial intelligence in real-time control. The issues covered included the use of AI methods in the design, implementation, testing, maintenance and operation of real-time control systems. While the focus was on the fundamental aspects of the methodologies and technologies, there were some applications papers which helped to put emerging theories into perspective. The four main subjects were architectural issues; knowledge - acquisition and learning; techniques; and scheduling, monitoring and management.




Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing 1989


Book Description

The Symposium covered three major areas: adaptive control, identification and signal processing. In all three, new developments were discussed covering both theoretical and applications research. Within the subject area of adaptive control the discussion centred around the challenges of robust control design to unmodelled dynamics, robust parameter estimation and enhanced performance from the estimator, while the papers on identification took the theme of it being a bridge between adaptive control and signal processing. The final area looked at two aspects of signal processing: recursive estimation and adaptive filters.




Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1991


Book Description

This set of proceedings contains the most significant papers presented at the third IFAC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Real-time Control, which was held from September 23-25, 1991 in the USA. In this workshop, although there were still some "exotic" applications, a more practical view of the applications and limitations of current AI technology dominated the participants' discussions. With its resultant focus on reliability and safety considerations, the workshop posed as many questions as it answered. It provides an excellent mirror of the current state-of-the-art which these proceedings are intended to illustrate.




Distributed Computer Control Systems 1991


Book Description

Distributed computer control is at the intersection between control engineering and computer science. Containing 22 papers, this book provides an up-to-date reference source of important issues in the design and implementation of distributed real-time computer systems.