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Tension Control with a Load Cell

Tension control with a load cell component for R2R systems

 

Description

Connections

Parameters

Description

The Tension Control with a Load Cell component is a tension controller which calculates a local web speed to control the tension. Internally a LimPID component is used.

Usage

The Tension Control with a Load Cell component needs a reference tension signal and a measured tension signal which must be controlled. The measured tension can be gotten from the tension output port of a Span component as well as from a Load Cell component. The output of the controller is an offset for the defined speed of the web line,

vlocal=vweb+vPID

Parameterization

The user has access to all parameters from the LimPID component. Additionally, it is important to define the working direction of the Tension Control with a Load Cell component. For this it is important to define the order of the drive and the sensor position in machine direction.

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

TRef

Real input; reference tension

T_ref

TMeas

Real input; measured tension

T_meas

vweb

Real input; master speed

v_web

vlocal

Real output; local reference web speed

v_local

Parameters

Settings

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Order

Sensor-Drive

 

Order of machine direction

BDir

Controller

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Controller Type

PI

 

Type of controller: P, PI, PD, PID

controllerType

k

0.001

 

Gain of controller

k

Ti

0.5

s

Time constant of integrator block [1]

Ti

Ni

0.9

 

NiTi is the time constant of anti-windup compensation [1]

Ni

Td

0.1

s

Time constant of derivative block [2]

Td

Nd

10

 

The higher Nd, the more ideal the derivative block [2]

Nd

wp

1

 

Weight for proportional block

wp

wd

0

 

Weight for derivative block [2]

wd

vmax

0.1

ms

Upper limit of output velocity

v_max

vmin

−0.1

ms

Lower limit of output velocity

v_min

[1] Accessible when controllerTypePI,PID

[2] Accessible when controllerTypePD,PID

Initialization

Name

Default

Description

Modelica ID

Initial Values

NoInit

Type of initialization: NoInit, SteadyState, InitialState, InitialOutput

initType

xi start

0

Initial value for integrator state

xi_start

xd start

0

Initial value for state of differentiator

xd_start

I/O Units

Name

Value

Description

Modelica ID

TUnit

N

Unit selection for the TRef and TMeas inputs

forceUnits

vUnit

ms

Unit selection for the vweb and vlocal inputs

velocityUnits

See Also

Controls

Web Handling Library