• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.482-488
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• 2009

Dancer system is typically used equipment for attenuation of tension disturbances. In industrial converting machines, a composite type of dancer system is applied which is mixture of active and passive dancer. It includes feedback position control loop of roll with pendulum dancer and its characteristics is different from passive and active one. In this paper, a mathematical model of the pendulum dancer was derived including PI position feedback controller and it was analyzed by using a pole-zero map and bode plot under various conditions. It was found out that velocity, length of span and inertia were associated with the performance of regulation. It was suggested that the length of upstream span should be greater than that of the downstream and the inertia should be smaller for improvement of the performance. The results can be used for design guidelines of the industrial dancer system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.81-89
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• 2009

Dancer systems are typical equipment for attenuation of tension disturbances. Lately, demands for high speed roll-to-roll machines are rising but it is prior to attenuate the tension variation on the web entering into the printing zone to achieve the speed increment. Maintaining a constant tension before the first printing cylinder is the key of high speed, high quality printing. Dancer has been researched in two ways, whether it is controlled or not. The first one is active dancer and the other one is passive dancer. In the active dancer, a position of idle roll of dancer is measured and the roll is moved by external hydraulic cylinder to control tension disturbances. While the passive one composed with spring, damper and idle roll has no external actuator to position the idle roll. The tension disturbance causes movement of dancer roll and the displacement of the roll regulates the tension variation. On the other hand a composite type of dancer is applied for roll-to-roll printing machines. It has same apparatus as passive dancer. The displacement of roll is measured and front(or rear) driven roller is controlled to position the roll. In this paper, it is presented an analysis of pendulum dancer including position feedback PI control and logic for PI gain tuning in roll-to-roll machines. Pole-zero map and root locus with varying system parameters gives a design method for control of the dancer.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.873-878
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• 2007

Stability of high-speed roll-to-roll printing machines is one of the most important factors that are required for the printing machines to operate properly and to obtain reasonable printing performance. This paper proposes a new model for the web-tension system of a high-speed gravure printing machine considering span-length variations due to dancer rollers, and analyzes the stability of plant dynamics of the printing machine using the proposed model. Span-length variations due to dancer motions are considered for the modeling of plant dynamics in two ways; one is to include the effect of span-length variations without considering dancer inertias and viscous frictions, and the other is to include the effect of span-length variations with considering dancer inertias and viscous frictions. The stability of the plant model is analyzed for various web-speeds using the eigenvalues of the linearized model about operating points.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2008

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.127-132
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• 2023

Authors report the performance indicator of Roll to Roll MC (hereinafter referred to as RTR) through experiment that it is possible to process 2.0G acceleration, which cannot be coped with in the existing FPCB RTR, by reducing the weight of the Dancer roll system and controlling the torque using the servo motor. Proposed dancer roll system provides uniform tension to FPCB by solving problems such as high rotation speed, heat generation, and low torque, which were impossible to achieve with the conventional magnet clutch type RTR. Through the development of a lightweight processing method for rolls using magnesium material and the development of a torque control algorithm for servo motor, torque stability also increased. Due to the enabling technology developed in this study, the reaction speed of the dancer roll was improved and the target speed was achieved as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.21-22
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2007

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.70-76
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• 2009

Web tension control system recently have been applied to OLED(Organic Light-Emitting Diode), RFID of flexible material, e-Paper and PLED(Polymeric LED) and various web control algorithms have being developed for higher productivity and product quality These system need an accuracy model to design and implement controller. In this paper, the web tension control system with dancer roll is mathematically modeled. Mathematical model consists of 8 subsystems and each subsystems can be described as impedance structure which connected by velocity and tension. Mathematical model is different from the estimated model at high frequency range because of structure dynamics which is ignored on mathematical model. The estimated model is derived using ARMAX model. The controller is designed using the estimated model. The step response of the estimated model are compared with that of physical model for a validation of estimated model. The experimental results show a good match between them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.439-440
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1144-1149
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• 2008

Converting technology has developed to print information for the decades. Recently, this technology (like gravure, gravure-offset) is rising as an alternative way for mass production of printed electronics such as RFID, solar cell. For the width of printing line is under 10 microns, registration error should be minimized less than several microns. Tension disturbance is main cause of registration error and this should be minimized before the substrate is transported into printing zone. With PI controller, it is possible to suppress the disturbance within 2% of operating tension. But register error appears more than 10 micron using PIcontroller considering noise. So LQG controller is needed as an alternative control method. In this paper, the comparision of PI and LQG controller in the converting machine including measured noise and tension disturbance is presented. It is shown that the LQG controller is more suitable for precision tension control in printed electronics.