Adaptive control strategy for conveyor drive systems

  • Authors:
  • Emil Pop;Cosmin Covaciu;Adrian Avram;Felicia Neghina

  • Affiliations:
  • System Control, Applied Informatics and Computer Engineering Department, University of Petrosani, Romania;University of Petrosani, Romania;University of Petrosani, Romania;University of Petrosani, Romania

  • Venue:
  • CSECS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, systems, electronics, control & signal processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper the adaptive control strategy for conveyor systems is presented. Based on the block diagram of the drive system used in conveyor transport process, the appropriate adaptive control strategy is determined. The strategy consists of two steps. First the real drive load is identified, second is regulated so that the necessary torque and power are reached. For the identification the gradient algorithm with MIT rules is used. In order to estimate the unknown parameters of the transport process, the un-phase angle ϕ between current and voltage is measured. The adaptive control strategy is modeled and simulated in MatLab-Simulink to certify the feasibility of the proposed method. The models and simulation results are used for designing and implementing adaptive control software in Visual Basic environment. There are done laboratory experiments and based on these the implementation in an open pit conveyor system is proposed.