Control of a five motors web transport system based on the Energetic Macroscopic Representation

The objective is to control a web transport system with winder and unwinder for elastic material. A physical mod-eling of this plant is made based on the general laws of physics. For this type of controlproblem, it is extremely important to prevent the occurrence of web break or fold by decoupling the web tension and the web velocity. Due to the wide-range variation of the radius and inertia of the rollers the system dynamics change considerably during the winding/unwinding process The system is composed of five paper rollers and a tensioning roller. A control structure is suggested for this system. This control is deduced from an Energetic Macroscopic Representation of the system. Neither robust control strategy nor mechanical emulation is required, but this control needs a large number of controllers.