Robust stabilization of a nonlinear cement mill model

• AUTHORS: F. Grognard, F. Jadot, L. Magni, G. Bastin, R. Sepulchre, V. Wertz.
• ABSTRACT:
  Plugging is well known to be a major cause of instability in industrial cement mills. A simple nonlinear model able to simulate the plugging phenomenon is presented. It is shown how a nonlinear robust controller can be designed in order to fully prevent the mill from plugging.
• STATUS: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 46 (4), pp. 618-623, April 2001.
• DATE OF ENTRY: February 2000.

• Paper: PS file.