Non-contact Conveyance Experiments for a Steel Plate under Levitation and Guidance Control without using Gap Sensors and Sideslip Sensors

We have already achieved a non-contact transport system of steel plates using magnetic levitation techniques. However, there still remain some problems such that gap sensors and sideslip sensors, which are essential for levitation and guidance control, are very expensive and become obstacles in the conveying lane. Therefore, in this paper, we show a control method that does not require both the sensors, and we perform levitation and transport experiments under such a control and report the results.