A Plug-and-Play Monitoring and Control Architecture for Disturbance Compensation in Rolling Mills

In modern industrial processes, production quality, system performance, process reliability, and safety issues have received considerable attention. This paper proposes a plug-and-play (PnP) monitoring and control architecture that results in a simple reliable design procedure. The proposed PnP architecture is integrated with process monitoring and control systems, by which system performance can be enhanced without modifying or replacing the existing control system. Based on the proposed PnP architecture, a PnP process monitoring and disturbance compensation for rolling mills is proposed. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated using an industrial rolling mill benchmark.