The present invention relates to a driving device of motors for rolling rolls and, more particularly, to a driving device of motors for rolling rolls that is used in a twin-drive type rolling mill in which top and bottom rolling rolls are driven by separate motors.
In a twin-drive type rolling mill in which top and bottom rolling rolls are driven by an upper motor and a lower motor, respectively, each of the motors is controlled by an independent control system. Therefore, loads of the upper and lower motors become nonuniform and thermal imbalance of the motors and bows in a rolled material caused by differences in upper and lower torques may occur. Therefore, to make the loads of the upper and lower motors uniform and to prevent upward bows and downward bows of a rolled material, there is known a load balance control method that involves monitoring standard values or measured values of load currents of the upper and lower motors and making the standard values or the measured values uniform (refer to Patent Document 1, for example).
A motor for rolling has mechanical loads of a multiple mass point spring system composed of spindles, couplings, rolls, gears and the like. When the natural frequency of a rolling roll driving system including motors and the speed response frequency of a speed controller of motors for rolling become close to each other, the rolling mill driving system including a control system and a mechanical system becomes an unstable system due to the resonance of the two and the phenomenon of excessive torsional vibration may occur.
To cope with such torsional vibration, it is general practice to evaluate the natural frequency of each of the top and bottom roll axis systems in the design stage and to design the speed response frequency and natural frequency to provide sufficiently different values so as to avoid the resonance phenomenon. Also, there is known a technique that involves incorporating a model of a mechanical system in a control system, estimating the behavior of the mechanical system, and correcting a torque standard, whereby vibration is suppressed (refer to Patent Document 2, for example).
Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 09-295016
Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-98580
In a twin-drive type rolling mill in which top and bottom rolling rolls are driven by an upper motor and a lower motor, respectively, as is apparent from the schematic configuration of the twin-drive type rolling mill shown in
In load balance control that has been used to eliminate the nonuniformity of upper and lower torques in a twin-drive type rolling mill, upper and lower torques (load currents) in motors are monitored and made uniform, and no consideration is given to the inequalities of upper and lower torques that occur when the torques propagate to the rolling rolls from the motors.
The technique of incorporating a model of a mechanical system in a control system, which is disclosed in Patent Document 2, is used in torsional vibration suppression and control and the like as described above. However, in the monitoring and controlling of the behavior of upper and lower mechanical axis systems, this technique is apt to be directly affected by modeling errors. Furthermore, models of both of upper and lower mechanical systems and control feedback values are also necessary, and the control system becomes complicated.
The present invention has been made to solve problems as described above, and provides a driving device of motors for rolling rolls that corrects inequalities of torques propagating to top and bottom rolling rolls of a twin-drive type rolling mill and accomplishes the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls.
A driving device of motors for rolling rolls used in a rolling mill in which top and bottom rolling rolls are driven by an upper motor and a lower motor, respectively, and either the upper motor or the lower motor is arranged to a rolled material side compared to the other motor, is characterized in that either one or both of an upper motor control section that controls the upper motor and a lower motor control section that controls the lower motor are provided with an upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section that corrects inequalities of torques propagating to the top and bottom rolling rolls.
According to the present invention, it is possible to make equal the transfer functions of the driving systems of the top and bottom rolling rolls including control systems and mechanical systems and to accomplish the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls. Therefore, it is possible to make equal torques propagating to the top surface and bottom surface of a rolled material, and this eliminates the possibility of causing bows in a rolled materials or damage thereto.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, a description will be given below of preferred embodiments of a driving device of motors for rolling rolls related to the present invention.
Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described on the basis of
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A lower motor control section 8 is composed of a lower motor speed controller 9, a lower motor torque current limiter 10, and a lower motor current controller 11. A lower motor 12 is controlled by this lower motor control section 8, and the rotation speed thereof is detected by a lower motor speed sensor 13. Incidentally, as will be described later, the lower motor torque current limiter 10 and the lower motor current controller 11 constitute lower motor torque control means 14 that controls the torque of the lower motor 12 so that a deviation of an actual speed of the lower motor from a speed standard for the lower motor becomes zero. Reference numeral 15 denotes a top roll axis system extending from the upper motor 5 to a top rolling roll (not shown), and reference numeral 16 denotes a bottom roll axis system extending from the lower motor 12 to a bottom rolling roll (not shown).
There is provided an upper motor speed standard section 17 that issues commands for the speed standard for the upper motor 5 to the upper motor control section 1, and there is provided a lower motor speed standard section 18 that issues commands for the speed standard for the lower motor 12 to the lower motor control section 8. Furthermore, an upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 that performs operations described below is provided in the rear of the upper motor speed standard section 17.
As described above, the upper motor 5 and the lower motor 12 are each controlled by the motor control sections 1, 8 that are independent of each other, and output torques of each of the motors 5, 12 propagate through the top roll axis system 15 and the bottom roll axis system 16, respectively, and reach a rolled material 20. As a result of this, the rolled material 20 is rolled. Incidentally, the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19, the upper motor control section 1, the upper motor 5, the upper motor speed sensor 6, and the top roll axis system 15 constitute a top roll driving system 21, and the lower motor control section 8, the lower motor 12, the lower motor speed sensor 13, and the bottom roll axis system 16 constitute a bottom roll driving system 22.
The driving device of motors for rolling rolls related to the Embodiment 1 is constructed as described above, and the operation thereof will be described next.
First, in the top roll driving system 21, an upper motor torque current standard TA is obtained by inputting to the upper motor speed controller 2 a deviation of an actual speed SP3 of the upper motor 5 detected by the upper motor speed sensor 6 from a corrected speed standard SP2 obtained by inputting a speed standard SP1 from the upper motor speed standard section 17 to the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19. Furthermore, power is supplied to the upper motor 5 via the upper motor torque current limiter 3 and the upper motor current controller 4. As a result of this, the torque of the upper motor 5 is controlled so that a deviation of the actual speed SP3 of the upper motor 5 from the upper motor speed standard SP1 becomes zero.
On the other hand, in the bottom roll driving system 22, a lower motor torque current standard TB is obtained by inputting to the lower motor speed controller 9 a deviation of an actual speed SP5 of the lower motor 12 detected by the lower motor speed sensor 13 from a speed standard SP4 from the lower motor speed standard section 18. Furthermore, power is supplied to the lower motor 12 via the lower motor torque current limiter 10 and the lower motor current controller 11. As a result of this, the torque of the lower motor 12 is controlled so that a deviation of the actual speed SP5 of the lower motor 12 from the lower motor speed standard SP4 becomes zero.
Torques supplied from the upper motor 5 and the lower motor 12 are caused to propagate to the top surface and bottom surface of the rolled material 20 via the top roll axis system 15 and the bottom roll axis system 16, respectively. As described in the conventional art, the transfer function GT(s) of the top roll axis system 15 and the transfer function GB(s) of the bottom roll axis system 16 do not become identical due to mechanical restrictions of a twin-drive type rolling mill. The torques that propagate to the top surface and bottom surface of the rolled material 20 become transiently unequal even when the torques supplied from the upper motor 5 and the lower motor 12 are controlled to be identical and this may cause bows in the rolled material 20 or damage thereto, for example. To eliminate this, in this embodiment, the transfer function C1(s) is set as given by C1(s)=GB(s)/GT(s) in the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 for the purpose of accomplishing the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls. As a result of this, it becomes possible to ensure that the top roll driving system 21 comprising the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19, the upper motor control section 1, the upper motor 5, the upper motor speed sensor 6, and the top roll axis system 15 and the bottom roll driving system 22 comprising the lower motor control section 8, the lower motor 12, the lower motor speed sensor 13, and the bottom roll axis system 16 have the same transfer function, and it is possible to eliminate the inequalities of upper and lower torques caused to be transmitted to the rolled material 20.
As described above, according to Embodiment 1, it is possible to accomplish the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls. Therefore, it is possible to make the torques propagating to the top surface and bottom surface of the rolled material 20 identical to each other, and this eliminates the possibility of causing bows in the rolled material 20 or damage thereto.
Next, Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described. In Embodiment 1, the description was given of the embodiment in which the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 is arranged in the rear of the upper motor speed standard SP1. However, by providing this correction section 19 within a speed control loop, it is possible to cause the correction section 19 to approach the machine side and, therefore, it is possible to further increase the effect of the correction of inequalities of torques propagating to the top and bottom rolling rolls.
According to Embodiment 2, the effects of Embodiment 1 are produced and it is possible to cause the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 to approach the machine side. Therefore, it is possible to further increase the effect of the correction of inequalities of torques propagating to the top and bottom rolling rolls.
Next, Embodiment 3 of the present invention will be described. In Embodiment 3, the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls is increased by using the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 of Embodiment 2 in combination with load balance control.
As described above, according to Embodiment 3, it becomes possible to obtain the synchronism of torque transmission to the top and bottom rolling rolls, with the effect obtained by Embodiment 1 or Embodiment 2 further increased.
This embodiment is more effective when a correction term, which will be described later in Embodiment 4, is used in a simplified manner.
Next, Embodiment 4 of the present invention will be described. In Embodiment 4, the top and bottom roll axis systems in Embodiments 1 to 3 are approximated by spring and mass systems, whereby the transfer function of a correction term in an upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 is expressed by physical parameters of the spring and mass systems.
The spring and mass systems used as the transfer functions of the top and bottom roll axis systems in a correction term can approximate a mechanical axis system by increasing the number of mass points of the axis system model. However, when a correction term is actually applied to a control system, the order of a transfer function is increased by an increase in the number of mass points and the transfer function becomes very complex, with the result that increasing the number of mass points lacks feasibility in terms of restrictions on the sampling intervals in the control system and that the number of adjusting parameters of the correction term also increases.
Because a certain level of torque difference poses no problem in actual operation and it is unnecessary to completely eliminate inequalities of upper and lower torques, it is possible to simplify a correction term by reducing the number of mass points. In this embodiment, the dimension of a correction term is made low by approximating the top and bottom roll axis systems each by a two-mass point system, making the application of a correction term to the existing control system sufficiently possible and reducing the imbalance of the upper and lower torques due to the most remarkable primary torsional frequency.
Therefore, from the transfer function simplified to the two-mass point system given in expression 1, the transfer function of the correction term is found as given by:
where, JT1, JT2 are the motor-side and roll-side inertia of the top roll axis system, KT is the spring constant of the top roll axis system, CT is the attenuation coefficient of the top roll axis system, JB1 JB2 are the motor-side and roll-side inertia of the bottom roll axis system, KB is the spring constant of the bottom roll axis system, and CB is the attenuation coefficient of the bottom roll axis system. These coefficients are all adjustable. Acom is a correction coefficient to make the deviation of the correction term zero, and is expressed by the following expression.
Results of a simulation of torque waveforms at top and bottom rolling roll ends and a waveform of upper and lower torque difference obtained when expression 2 is inserted into the top roll axis system as a correction term are shown in
As described above, according to Embodiment 4, the effects obtained in Embodiments 1 to 3 are produced and it is possible to further increase the effect of the correction of inequalities of torques propagating to the top and bottom rolling rolls by performing prior evaluation and verification of the effect of the correction of a correction term by a transfer function by a simulation.
Incidentally, in Embodiment 1 the description was given of the embodiment in which the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 is arranged in the rear of the upper motor speed standard SP1 and in Embodiment 2 the description was given of the embodiment in which the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 is arranged within the upper motor speed feedback loop. In the present invention, however, the upper/lower axis system imbalance correction section 19 may be arranged in the same position as described above in the bottom roll driving system 22, and may also be arranged in the same position as described above in both of the top roll driving system 21 and the bottom roll driving system 22. Furthermore, in each of the above-described embodiments, the graphical description was given of the embodiments in which the present invention is applied to the driving device of motors for rolling rolls in a top forward type rolling mill. However, the present invention may also be applied to a driving device of motors for rolling rolls in a bottom forward type rolling mill and hence the present invention includes various kinds of design changes.
The present invention can be applied to a driving device of motors for rolling rolls in a twin-drive type rolling mill in which the top and bottom rolling rolls are driven by separate motors.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2007-121086 | May 2007 | JP | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/JP2007/072371 | 11/19/2007 | WO | 00 | 3/15/2010 |