Analysis of the transport of aluminum oxide filaments as an automated control object

Abstract

A new system is proposed for automatically feeding initial filaments of aluminum oxide in order to minimize their breakage and stabilize the production process. To realize the system, the process of filament transport was studied as a control object and a simply-built stepper drive with the required parameters was developed along with an algorithm and program to control the process. To investigate the statistical parameters of filament transport, the character of the change in the tension on filaments being unwound from a feed package is studied for different speed regimes (1.31, 1.51, 1.9, 3.43, and 7.8 m/min). The experimental data is analyzed in the article, which also presents formulas and results obtained by calculation.