Dynamic Behavior of Levitated Flexible Steel Plate in Bending Electromagnetic Levitation System During Disturbance Input

In thin steel plate production lines, contact conveying by rollers is used, which sometimes results in scratches and plating defects on the steel plate surface. To solve this problem, non-contact conveyance by magnetic levitation is expected. When thin steel plates are magnetically levitated, magnetic levitation control becomes difficult due to deflection caused by the flexibility of the plate. Therefore, we have proposed a curved magnetic levitation system that improves the levitation stability by curving the steel plate for magnetic levitation. However, the dynamic behavior of thin steel plates during bending magnetic levitation have not been clarified. In this report, we performed a levitation experiments of bending steel plate, and input disturbance to the bending levitation device. From the measured response of levitated and oscillated steel plate, it was confirmed that the bending thin steel plate was in rigid body motion due to the disturbance.