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Model reduction and controller design of a whole roller carding system

By Kuo, Chung-Feng Jeffrey
Publication: Textile Research Journal
Date: Friday, February 1 2002
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ABSTRACT

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A central idea involved in the design of a dynamic system is the modeling and manipulation of that system. By applying physical

laws to a specific system, it is possible to develop a mathematical model that describes the system dynamics. Because a model must be a simplification of reality, there is a great deal of creative art in constructing models. This paper presents a good approach to simplifying a whole roller carding system. It proposes a novel technique to obtain a corresponding single degree of freedom model estimated from a high-order system. This model provides a computationally efficient and conceptually simple algorithm, which for system design purposes yields an appropriate estimation of a high-order linear system.

When attempting to build a model, a compromise must be made between the simplicity of the model and the accuracy of the results. Results from an analysis are valid only to the extent that the model approximates a given physical system [8]. At the same time, in order to use fewer components in hardware implementation or to obtain a more reliable implementation, it is useful to construct a low-order controller.

A whole roller carding system is a high-order complicated model. An overly complex model may contain parameters that are virtually impossible to estimate, may be practically impossible to analyze, and may cloud important results in a welter of irrelevant detail even if it actually can be analyzed [2]. Generally, a high-order dynamic system contains poles of lower importance that have little effect on the system response. Eliminating such nondominant poles can perhaps yield a low-order approximating system, so that the analysis and design effort can be reduced.

In this paper, we present a method of reducing the high-order system for a whole roller carding system and verify the accuracy of the simplified model. At the same time, we show the simplicity and effectiveness of both conventional and modern control.

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System Transfer Function

Conclusions

In this paper, we present a method for appreciably reducing the order of a whole roller carding system, we show a way of analyzing the system in order to shed light on its behavior, and we develop a technique for using a computer to simulate the response of the design system. The original fifth-order system successfully reduces to a single degree of freedom model. We provide the accuracy criterion of the amplitude characteristics and the steady-state behavior of the two systems. At the same time, we present both the conventional and modem control schemes to show the analysis and design effort. The computer simulations demonstrate a very good model reduction technique and corresponding controller performance.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was supported by the National Science Council of the R.O.C. under Grant NSC 87-2212-E-01 1008.

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Manuscript received May 30, 2000; accepted March 27, 2001.

AUTHOR_AFFILIATION

CHUNG-FENG JEFFREY KUO AND CHIEN-TENG HSIEH

AUTHOR_AFFILIATION

Intelligence Control and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Fiber and Polymer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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