The modeling and control of a Web guide process in cold rolling mill

There are many intermediate Web guides in cold rolling mills process such as CRM (cold rolling mill), CGL (continuous galvanizing line), EGL (electrical galvanizing line) and so on. The main functions of the Web guides are to adjust the center line of the Web (strip) to the center line of the steel process. So they are called CPC (center position control). Rapid process speed cause large deviation between the center position of the strip and the process line, too much deviation is not desirable. So the difference between the center position of the strip and the process line should be compensated. In general, the CPC of the Web is obtained by the hydraulic driver and electrical controller. In this paper, we propose modeling and several controller designs for Web-guide systems. We model the Web and guide by using geometrical relations of the guide ignored the mass and stiffness of the Web. To control the systems, we propose PID controllers with their gains tuned by the Ziegler-Nichols method, the H controller model-matching method, and the COM (coefficient diagram method). COM is modified for high order systems. The results are verified by computer simulations.