Web Tension Regulation of Multispan Roll-to-Roll System using Integrated Active Dancer and Load Cells for Printed Electronics Applications

作     者：ZUBAIR Muhammad PONNIAH Ganeshthangaraj YANG Young Jin CHOI Kyung Hyun 

作者机构：Department of Mechatronics EngineeringJeju National University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第27卷第2期

页      面：229-239页

核心收录：

学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

基　　金：supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF),Ministry of Education,Science and Technology,Korea(Grant No.2010-0026163) Strategy Technology Development Project,Ministry of Knowledge Economy,Korea(Grant No.10032149) 

主　　题：roll-to-roll(R2R)system multispan printed electronics active dancer load cell artificial neural networks tension control,multi-input-single-output(MISO ) 

摘      要：The mass production of primed electronics can be achieved by roll-to-roll（R2R） printing system, so highly accurate web tension is required that can minimize the register error and keep the thickness and roughness of printed devices in limits. The web tension of a R2R system is regulated by the use of integrated load cells and active dancer system for printed electronics applications using decentralized multi-input-single-output（MISO） regularized variable learning rate backpropagation artificial neural networks. The active dancer system is used before printing system to reduce disturbances in the web tension of process span. The classical PID control result in tension spikes with the change in roll diameter of winder and unwinder rolls. The presence of dancer in R2R system shows that improved web tension control in printing span and the web tension can be enhanced from 3.75 N to 4.75 N. The overshoot of system is less than ±2.5 N and steady state error is within ± 1 N where load cells have a signal noise of ±0.7 N. The integration of load cells and active dancer with self-adapting neural network control provide a solution to the web tension control of multispan roll-to-roll system.