Industrial Process Coordinated and Controlled Based on Multi-Agent Technology

According to the characteristics of distributed industrial control process, we analyzed the feasibility and necessity that multi-agent technology was applied to industrial complicated control process. A multi-agent system architecture on the basis of industrial process and cooperation control of the system were described as well. Strip hot rolling process is a typical distributed control problem we met in metallurgy. We proposed a multi-agent structure of hot rolling process from the view of synthesized control. The composition and relationship of every function module was described in detail. The cooperation control process of the main device was described in detail. The cooperation control process of flatness and gauge was analyzed in the article.