Focusing on the disadvantages of recent researches for roll planning that seldom consider the warm-up part and solution efficiency is low, in this paper, a parallel planning model and an improved ant colony algorithm were proposed to solve the problem. Firstly, the model considering constraints of both warm-up part and staple one was designed; Secondly, the improved ant colony algorithm was proposed where the slab cluster was used to decrease the searching scope and the local optimization to improve the efficiency of pheromone accumulation. Finally, with production data from hot strip mill, we proof the method can get the best results by comparing with other two ant colony algorithms.
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