Digital Twin-Based Fault Diagnosis Platform for Final Rolling Temperature in Hot Strip Production

Materials (Basel). 2023 Nov 3;16(21):7021. doi: 10.3390/ma16217021.

Abstract

The final rolling temperature in hot rolling is an important process parameter for hot-rolled strips and greatly influences their mechanical properties and rolling stability. The diagnosis of final rolling temperature anomalies in hot rolling has always been difficult in industry. A data-driven risk assessment method for detecting final rolling temperature anomalies is proposed. In view of the abnormal setting value for the strip head, a random forest model is established to screen the process parameters with high feature importance, and the isolation forest algorithm is used to evaluate the risk associated with the remaining parameters. In view of the abnormal process curve of the full length of the strip, the Hausdorff distance algorithm is used to eliminate samples with large deviations, and a risk assessment of the curve is carried out using the LCSS algorithm. Aiming to understand the complex coupling relationship between the influencing factors, a method for identifying the causes of anomalies, combining a knowledge graph and a Bayesian network, is established. According to the results of the strip head and the full-length risk assessment model, the occurrence of the corresponding nodes in the Bayesian network is determined, and the root cause of the abnormality is finally output. By combining mechanistic modeling and data modeling techniques, it becomes possible to rapidly, automatically, and accurately detect and analyze final rolling temperature anomalies during the rolling process. When applying the system in the field, when compared to manual analysis by onsite personnel, the accuracy of deducing the causes of anomalies was found to reach 92%.

Keywords: digital twin; fault diagnosis; final rolling temperature; hot-rolled strip; knowledge graph.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Jiangxi Province key research and development project (20223BBE51032).