Development of Blast Furnace Burden Distribution Process Modeling and Control

1) School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China. 2) Key Laboratory of Advanced Control of Iron and Steel Process (Ministry of Education), University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China. 3) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409-0040 USA. 4) Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124 China. 5) School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China. 6) School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074 China. 7) Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522 Japan.