Digital twin with automatic disturbance detection for an expert-controlled SAG mill

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Hauptverfasser: Quintanilla, Paulina, Fernández, Francisco, Mancilla, Cristóbal, Rojas, Matías, Navia, Daniel
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author Quintanilla, Paulina
Fernández, Francisco
Mancilla, Cristóbal
Rojas, Matías
Navia, Daniel
author_facet Quintanilla, Paulina
Fernández, Francisco
Mancilla, Cristóbal
Rojas, Matías
Navia, Daniel
contents This study presents the development and validation of a digital twin for a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill controlled by an expert system. The digital twin integrates three key components of the closed-loop operation: (1) fuzzy logic for expert control, (2) a state-space model for regulatory control, and (3) a recurrent neural network to simulate the SAG mill process. The digital twin is combined with a statistical framework for automatically detecting process disturbances (or critical operations), which triggers model retraining only when deviations from expected behaviour are identified, ensuring continuous updates with new data to enhance the SAG supervision. The model was trained with 68 hours of operational industrial data and validated with an additional 8 hours, allowing it to predict mill behaviour within a 2.5-minute horizon at 30-second intervals with errors smaller than 5%.
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spellingShingle Digital twin with automatic disturbance detection for an expert-controlled SAG mill
Quintanilla, Paulina
Fernández, Francisco
Mancilla, Cristóbal
Rojas, Matías
Navia, Daniel
Systems and Control
This study presents the development and validation of a digital twin for a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill controlled by an expert system. The digital twin integrates three key components of the closed-loop operation: (1) fuzzy logic for expert control, (2) a state-space model for regulatory control, and (3) a recurrent neural network to simulate the SAG mill process. The digital twin is combined with a statistical framework for automatically detecting process disturbances (or critical operations), which triggers model retraining only when deviations from expected behaviour are identified, ensuring continuous updates with new data to enhance the SAG supervision. The model was trained with 68 hours of operational industrial data and validated with an additional 8 hours, allowing it to predict mill behaviour within a 2.5-minute horizon at 30-second intervals with errors smaller than 5%.
title Digital twin with automatic disturbance detection for an expert-controlled SAG mill
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04225