Torsional Vibration Control of the Main Drive System of a Rolling Mill Based on an Extended State Observer and Linear Quadratic Control

Abstract

In the main drive system of a rolling mill, shaft torsional vibration is often generated when a motor and a roll are connected with a flexible shaft. State feedback control can effectively suppress the torsional vibration of the main drive system of a rolling mill. Because of the difficulty of measuring the load speed and the shaft torque, and moreover the sensitivity of the Luenberger observer to the model uncertainties and the noise include in the detected signal, in this paper, we propose an extended state observer (ESO), a new observer, to estimate the unknown states and the load torque disturbance. We propose an ESO and linear quadratic (LQ) based speed controller with an integrator and load torque feedforward compensation for torsional vibration suppression in a two-mass main drive system of a rolling mill. The simulation results show the controller effectively improves the performances of command following, torsional vibration suppression, and robustness to parameter variation. This is the first time that the ESO has been utilized in torsional vibration control of the main drive system of a rolling mill, and its validity and superiority is verified in comparison with the conventional proportional integral (PI) controller and the state feedback controller based on a reduced-order state observer.

Keywords

Rolling mill two-mass system torsional vibration control extended state observer linear quadratic

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