Development of Hoop Filament Winding System with Tension Control

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to establish the advanced filament-winding system by realtime sensing and control of the winding tension. In this paper, first, the design and the manufacture of the filament-winding machine is presented in order to be able to measure and control the winding tension in process, and the winding tension control method is proposed and implemented using PID, I-PD control and two-degree-of freedom PID control. Secondly, modeling of the Hoop-winding tension process (pattern) is studied in terms of a system identification technique, and the controller is designed by using Genetic Algorithm (GA). Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated via control experiments. Proposed tension control and its gain tuning methods respectively show good performance through the experimental results.