Alignment, modeling and iterative adaptive robust control of cross-directional processes

A key issue in paper-machine Cross-Directional (CD) Control is alignment. Typically, this mapping problem is a non-linear and slowly time-varying phenomenon for individual machines. The first part of this thesis specifically focuses on different causes of the misalignment and reviews recent develo...

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Main Author: Farahmand, Fazel
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21422