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Vertical hot ring rolling (VHRR) process has the characteristics of nonlinearity, time-variation and being susceptible to disturbance. Furthermore, the ring’s growth is quite fast within a short time, and the rolled ring’s position is asymmetrical. All of these cause that the ring’s dimensions cannot be measured directly. Through analyzing the relationships among the dimensions of ring blanks, the positions of rolls and the ring’s inner and outer diameter, the soft measurement model of ring’s dimensions is established based on the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). A mass of data samples are obtained from VHRR finite element (FE) simulations to train and test the soft measurement NN model, and the model’s structure parameters are deduced and optimized by genetic algorithm (GA). Finally, the soft measurement system of ring’s dimensions is established and validated by the VHRR experiments. The ring’s dimensions were measured artificially and calculated by the soft measurement NN model. The results show that the calculation values of GA-RBFNN model are close to the artificial measurement data. In addition, the calculation accuracy of GA-RBFNN model is higher than that of RBFNN model. The research results suggest that the soft measurement NN model has high precision and flexibility. The research can provide practical methods and theoretical guidance for the accurate measurement of VHRR process.
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Foundation item: Project(51205299) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(2015M582643) supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; Project(2014BAA008) supported by the Science and Technology Support Program of Hubei Province, China; Project(2014-IV-144) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China; Project(2012AAA07-01) supported by the Major Science and Technology Achievements Transformation & Industrialization Program of Hubei Province, China
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Wang, Xk., Hua, L., Wang, Xx. et al. Soft measurement model of ring’s dimensions for vertical hot ring rolling process using neural networks optimized by genetic algorithm. J. Cent. South Univ. 24, 17–29 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-017-3404-1
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