Robust stochastic configuration network multi-output modeling of molten iron quality in blast furnace ironmaking

Blast furnace ironmaking (BFI) is currently the most widely used method of pig iron smelting. In order to achieve efficient and reasonable control, how to quickly and accurately obtain the molten iron quality (MIQ) model is a key issue. Aiming at this problem, this paper applies robust stochastic configuration networks (RSCNs) based on kernel density estimation (KDE) into the BFI modeling to obtain the MIQ model with good modeling accuracy and strong robustness quickly and effectively. Firstly, the network model is incrementally constructed by adding neurons one by one using the conventional SCNs algorithm. Secondly, in order to solve the problem of insufficient robustness of conventional SCNs, kernel density estimation algorithm is introduced to obtain the corresponding probability density estimates of each training set, and it's used as the penalty weight introduced into constructing process of conventional SCNs. At the same time, the network output weight is obtained by an improved method to solve the problem that the output weight of the conventional RSCNs is abnormal in the multi-output modeling application. Finally, modeling experiments based on actual industrial data of BFI production verified that RSCNs can achieve good modeling accuracy and strong robust performance. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.