Research on Anti-Fluctuation Control of Winding Tension System Based on Feedforward Compensation

Yujie Duan,Jianguo Liang,⋆,Jianglin Liu,Haifeng Gao,Yinhui Li,Jinzhu Zhang and Xinyu Wen

1College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering,Taiyuan University of Technology,Taiyuan,030024,China

2College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering,Taiyuan University of Technology,Taiyuan,030024,China

3School of Electronic Information Engineering,Taiyuan University of Science and Technology,Taiyuan,030000,China

ABSTRACT In the fiber winding process, strong disturbance, uncertainty, strong coupling, and fiber friction complicate the winding constant tension control.In order to effectively reduce the influence of these problems on the tension output, this paper proposed a tension fluctuation rejection strategy based on feedforward compensation.In addition to the bias harmonic curve of the unknown state, the tension fluctuation also contains the influence of bounded noise.A tension fluctuation observer (TFO) is designed to cancel the uncertain periodic signal, in which the frequency generator is used to estimate the critical parameter information.Then,the fluctuation signal is reconstructed by a third-order auxiliary filter.The estimated signal feedforward compensates for the actual tension fluctuation.Furthermore, a time-varying parameters fractional-order PID controller (TPFOPID) is realized to attenuate the bounded noise in the fluctuation.Finally,TPFOPID is enhanced by TFO and applied to control a tension control system considering multi-source disturbances.The stability of the method is analyzed by using the Lyapunov theorem.Finally,numerical simulations verify that the proposed scheme improves the tracking ability and robustness of the system in response to tension fluctuations.

KEYWORDS Constant tension control; anti-fluctuation strategy; tension fluctuation observer; time-varying parameters fractional-order PID controller;feedforward compensate

1 Introduction

In the fiber winding process,one of the most critical factors affecting the winding quality is the adjustment of fiber tension[1].The guide wire device in the winding machine drives the fiber to wind along the surface of the wound part according to a particular trajectory, in which the fiber ensures the stability of the winding tension under the action of the adjusting device [2,3].Suppose there is no appropriate controller to control the tension.In that case,the fiber may be unable to retract and release the yarn in time, resulting in fiber tension fluctuation and output tension instability, which in turn affects the performance of the winding product.In order to overcome the above difficulties,the traditional fiber winding machine adjustment device[4]is usually used to adjust the fiber tension,such as swing rod,mechanical spring and lag brake.However,when the winding speed is accelerated,the regulating device cannot respond quickly and cannot ensure that the winding tension is constant near the set value.At this time, fiber jitter and tension fluctuation will be caused.In order to solve the above problems, this paper is devoted to using the active tension control method to analyze the tension variation law and the composition of the fluctuation, primarily focusing on the tension estimation combined with the observer and the control of the tension system by the fractional-order PID controller to improve the performance of the fiber winding machine.

Researchers have conducted many investigations on constant tension control [5,6].Chen et al.[7] proposed a nonlinear model predictive control method to eliminate tension disturbance and improve tension control accuracy.Chen et al.[8] designed a robust linear parameter varying model predictive control scheme to improve the tension tracking performance.Imamura et al.[9]used system identification to model the winding tension and designed a 2-DOF PID controller based on a genetic algorithm to realize the real-time control of winding tension.In addition, many modern control methods have been introduced into tension control,including PID control[10],fuzzy control[11],and fractional order control[12].Among them,the fractional-order PID controller has been successfully applied in the stable control of tension with its excellent control performance[13].Meng designed a control strategy based on fractional-order PID to achieve the control goal of constant tension in the winding system[14].However,the control parameters of the PID controller are independent of each other and lack the ability to coordinate control[15].In order to eliminate the shortcomings of the PID controller,scientists have carried out further research.Zeng et al.[16]proposed a parameter coupling strategy and established the relationship between the control parameters of the proportional,integral,and differential links in the integer-order PID controller.This provides a new idea for the tuning of fractional-order PID controller parameters.

However, the framework of existing control methods cannot effectively suppress tension fluctuation by using the main characteristics of tension fluctuation, which is conservative.Because of multi-factor disturbance for speed in the winding process(the non-circularity,coulomb friction,and vibration of the guide roller) and strong coupling effect between fiber speed and tension, resulting in periodic tension fluctuation [17].In order to achieve a satisfactory control effect, the rejection of periodic signals should be considered in the design of signal control schemes.In most studies,various methods have proved effective for uncertain periodic systems [18–20].In [21], the adaptive frequency estimation scheme combined with the fractional-order controller to suppress the offset sinusoidal disturbance of the unknown parameter state and an adaptive orthogonal signal generator based on the third-order generalized integrator to estimate the disturbance.However,in the adaptive algorithm,the control and observation parameters are solved separately,which leads to a significant increase in the calculation of the parameters and affects the convergence speed of the estimation.In addition,the disturbance observer(DOBC)[22,23]realizes the compensation and rejection of periodic fluctuations[24,25]by estimating the critical fluctuation frequency information[26,27].In[28],a twolayer observer is proposed to reconstruct the unknown frequency disturbance, which can eliminate the parameter uncertainty condition on the system uncertainty.However,the tension system always encounters disturbances with different characteristics[29],such as friction and noise.Due to the lack of robust control,the performance of disturbance compensation may deteriorate.

In order to reduce the tension fluctuation of fiber winding, the purpose of this technical description is to propose a tension fluctuation rejection strategy based on feedforward compensation.A composite control scheme of tension fluctuation observer and time-varying parameter fractional PID controller is developed using DOBC [30] control structure and PID parameters coupling [31]control rules.It solves the tension fluctuation control problem of the winding system with an unknown state periodic signal and bounded noise.In the design process of the proposed tension fluctuation observer,the tension periodic signal is regarded as an exogenous system[32].Considering the friction between the fiber and the device, the uncertain periodic signal is a bias harmonic.The fluctuation characteristics are excited by designing the nominal model and the inverse filter of the controlled system.Then, the frequency generator is designed to estimate the critical frequency parameter information of the bias harmonic periodic signal,and a third-order auxiliary filter is constructed to give the equivalent form of the uncertain bias harmonic compensation signal.Finally, the tension signal is reconstructed in the fluctuation reconstructor, and the actual system is compensated.The asymptotic convergence and uniform ultimate boundedness of the reconstructed tension fluctuation under a multi-factor disturbance environment are analyzed by using the Lyapunov theorem.The coupling between harmonic parameters and the solution of complex differential equations can be avoided.Combined with the designed time-varying fractional-order PID controller,the bounded noise in tension fluctuation is attenuated.The simulation data show that when the winding speed disturbs the system,the proposed control strategy can control the tension fluctuation deviation in a small range.It is verified that the proposed scheme improves the tracking ability and robustness of the system in response to tension fluctuation.

The structure of this paper is as follows:Section 2 gives a description of the tension fluctuation problem.In Section 3,a tension fluctuation observer is designed for biased harmonic signals,and the stability of the composite system is analyzed.Section 4 gives the design of a time-varying parameter fractional-order PID controller.In Section 5,various simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness.Section 6 gives the conclusion of this paper and the future research work.

The main contributions and innovations of this paper can be summarized as follows:

(1)The tension fluctuation generated by the actual tension system is analyzed,and the compensation signal of the uncertain disturbance is reconstructed by its characteristics.The equivalent form of the tension fluctuation of the uncertain bias harmonic compensation signal is given.

(2)A third-order auxiliary filter is constructed.The disturbance signal with unknown frequency is introduced,and the relationship between the disturbance frequency and the compensation coefficient is given.A tension fluctuation observer(TFO)is proposed to realize the accuracy and robustness of tension fluctuation estimation.

(3)By introducing the dynamic parameters into the fractional order PID controller,a time-varying parameters fractional-order PID controller(TPFOPID)is established,which can realize the efficient control of the tension system with complex disturbance.

(4) The proposed TFO observer and TPFOPID controller are independent of each other and remove the necessity of estimating the system state to complete the control target,making the system stability easier to analyze.

2 Problem Formulation

In this section, we consider the control model of fiber winding tension regulator.Additionally,based on actual tension data, the main types of disturbances causing tension fluctuations were identified.This serves to further inform the design of control strategies.

2.1 Tension Control Model

According to Xu et al.[33], the kinematics control model of tension adjusting rod can be expressed as:

whereRis the equivalent resistance,Jis the equivalent rotational inertia,βis the equivalent friction coefficient,Keis the electromotive force coefficient,Kfis the motor torque coefficient,Kbis the pendulum coefficient,θis the angle of the swing rod,uis the control input,dis the disturbance signal.

The transfer function for the tension regulating device can be expressed as:

The state space control model describing the motion of the winding tension regulating device can be expressed as:

In the research problem shown in Fig.1,the movement of the fiber driven by the guide tube during winding is a repetitive process in the form of harmonics,and there is friction between the fiber and the device.Due to the strong coupling relationship between the winding speed and the winding tension,the tension fluctuation of the fiber is present in the form of a biased harmonic signal.

2.2 Tension Fluctuation Description

We consider the tension experimental data from the actual winding system and fit the equivalent tension output curve that characterizes the tension fluctuation,as shown in Fig.2.

The composite disturbance causing tension fluctuation through fitting and comparison analysis has the following characteristics: random noise, unknown frequency simple harmonic wave disturbance,and bias disturbance.In order to facilitate the verification of the performance of the controller and observer proposed in this paper,in the following research,these disturbance factors are reasonably amplified and described.Therefore,the tension fluctuationd(t)in our system can be described as:

where,ψis the amplitude of the bias harmonic signal,ωcis the fluctuation frequency,φis the phase,ψ0is the offset,and the bias harmonic signal is in the parameter unknown state.

Δd(t)=η(x,t)satisfies:

The bias harmonic signal can be equivalent to a third-order external system,d∗(t)can be formulated by external linear system[34]:

whereω(t)∈R3×1,Q∈R1×3,M∈R3×3,andM,Qcan be expressed as:

Most of the current work needs to estimate the system state and signal parameters information in Eq.(8) simultaneously, which will increase the operation and reduce the convergence speed of the estimation.On the contrary, in the proposed tension fluctuation observation structure, the reconstructiond∗(t)only needs to estimate one parameter, which also dramatically improves the compensation efficiency of the system disturbance.

3 Design of Fluctuation Reconstructor

This section describes the nominal model of the controlled system for cases where the frequency deviation harmonic signal is unknown.An inverse filter is then designed to stimulate signal features,and a frequency generator is used to estimate tension fluctuation frequency.Further,the fluctuation signal is reconstructed using a third-order auxiliary filter based on the estimated frequency information.Finally,feedforward compensation is implemented for practical.Fig.3 gives the overall structure of proposed method.The design of the TPFOPID controller is described in the next section.

Figure 3:The proposed control architecture block diagram

The tension fluctuation observer consists of three parts:inverse filter,third-order auxiliary filter and frequency generator.The control input is defined asu=uTP-, whereuTPis the output of the TPFOPID controller andis the estimated bias harmonic signal;is the difference between the controlled system tension outputyand the nominal model outputyn.ris system reference input.

We can get the error equation transfer function fromdto:

(1) Compared with other disturbance rejection methods, it only needs to use the disturbance characteristics without estimating the disturbance state,which avoids the conservatism of the design.

(2) The tension fluctuation observer can be well combined with the designed time-varying parameter fractional order PID controller to control the controlled system, which can realize the independence of the observer and the controller.

(3) It can be applied to fractional order control systems to solve the problem of disturbance estimation and compensation in such nonlinear systems.At the same time, the rejection of a class of biased sinusoidal disturbances with unknown frequencies in the tension system is realized,and the large-scale asymptotic stability of the system is analyzed by using uniform ultimate boundedness.

3.1 Reconstruction Signal

The inverse filter is designed to excite the tension fluctuation characteristics.The equivalent input tension compensation form is derived by introducing the reconstructed fluctuation signal.

The inverse filteris constructed by usingand n first-order inertial links in series.The inverse filter canbedescribedas:

wherenis the minimum integer order such that theH(s)function holds.

According to Eq.(11),ηi(s),(1 ≤i≤n)are defined as:

From Eq.(12),we can obtain the relationship in time domain:

where 1 ≤i≤n,ηi(t)are the inverse Laplace transform ofηi(s).miis the undetermined parameter to be designed;ηi(t),(1 ≤i≤n)is a set of cascade relationship of unmeasurable signal.ηn(t)will converge to the harmonic signal gradually with frequencyωc.For simplicity,it can be expressed as:

The noise signalΔdi(t)(1 ≤i≤n)is equivalent bounded disturbance.According to Fig.2 and Eq.(12),we can see thatΔdi(1 ≤i≤n)andΔdsatisfy the relationship of Eq.(15):

The decay term obeys

According to the above analysis, the error signalthrough the inverse filter contains signal characteristics.Therefore,ηi,(2 ≤i≤n)can be decomposed into bias harmonic signal, equivalent bounded noise and decay term.

Similarly,we can see thatη1(t)also tracks the bias sine curve with frequencyωc.Next,a third-order auxiliary filter is introduced to estimate the key parameter information=by usingη1(t).

3.2 Tension Fluctuation Observer Design

Under the framework of the tension fluctuation observer, the output signal of the inverse filterη1(t)is reconstructed n times to obtain the estimated value of the bias harmonic signal.

The structure of the third-order auxiliary filter is shown in Fig.4.For the convenience of analysis,(1 ≤i≤n)in Fig.4 is defined as the estimated value of the bias harmonic reconstruction signal,is the estimated value of the input tension fluctuation,g2i,g1i(1 ≤i≤n)is an optional positive scalar,Ki1Ki2Ki3(1 ≤i≤n)is the undetermined coefficient,μi1(s),μi2(s),μi3(s)(1 ≤i≤n)is the internal signal of the tension fluctuation observer,which can be described as:

Figure 4:Third-order auxiliary filter structure diagram

From Eq.(17):

whereμi1(t),μi2(t),μi3(t)are Laplace transformed intoμi1(s),μi2(s),μi3(s).Combined with Eq.(13),we can get:

Theorem 1.If there exists dynamicsμi1(t),μi2(t),μi3(t)(1 ≤i≤n)satisfying Eq.(19).The bias harmonic reconstruction signalcan be described as:

And=ω2,andδi(t)(1 ≤i≤n)obeys

Proof.According to Theorem 1 in[28],there exists vector(t)∈R3×1satisfying:

The bias harmonic signalcan be denoted as:

Thus,the bias harmonic reconstruction signal is expressed as follows:

where,

Combining with Eqs.(23) and (28), it can be seen that Eq.(27) upholds by introducingδ(t)=(t)-μ(t)+(t)into Eq.(20).

3.3 Tension Fluctuation Information Estimation

This section constructed a frequency generator to track the unknown constant scalarϖand estimate the frequency of the biased harmonic signal.Combining Eqs.(14), (18), (19) and (20), we have:

Theorem 2.The reconstruction signal(t)is obtained according to.Correspondingly,consider the designed observer:

whereα >0,is a given constant value.

From Eqs.(30)and(31),the estimation error:

We could see that if there is no bounded noiseΔd(t),the estimation error(t)is asymptotically stable.Soμ11(t),μ12(t),μ13(t)are essentially stable and converges to a bias harmonic curve with frequencyϖ.

According to Eq.(20),the estimation forms of reconstruction signal(t)can be given by:

After obtaining the estimated reconstruction signal(t),with Eqs.(13)and(14)obtained the estimated reconstructiond∗(t)is carried out and described in the next section.

3.4 Fluctuation Reconstructor and Stability

In the existing methods of signal estimation,due to the uncertain tension fluctuation characteristics,the equivalent state ofd∗(t)needs to be constructed.However,this could be simplified in proposed method of this paper.

As shown in Fig.3,the tension fluctuation reconstructor provides an alternative form of equivalent input signal based on reconstructed tension fluctuation.From the Eqs.(13),(14),(15)and(16),we can see

The next task of the tension fluctuation observer is to use the estimatorinstead ofd∗(t).From Eqs.(18),(19)and(20),we can directly derive the derivative ofas:

Furthermore,the input signald∗(t)can be redescribed as:

We obtain the alternative form ofd∗(t), which depends on the unknown parameters.Applying Eqs.(32) to (35), we can reconstruct the compensation signal of tension fluctuation, as shown in Theorem 3.

Theorem 3.Applying the estimation rate ofϖ,for parametersγ1,2>0 andα >0,if there existsP>0,ρ0>0 satisfying the following inequality,the estimation error of the bias harmonic reconstruction signal is uniformly bounded:

Proof.Denoting bias harmonic signal estimation error:

From Eqs.(31)and(32),we can get:

where,P,γ1,2>0,ρ0>0,then from Eqs.(16),(22)and(40):

In consideration thatis upper bound ofζ, Γ<0 can be guaranteed by Eq.(36).The above analysis can prove that(t),εn(t)andδ(t)are bounded,and we can test thatis also bounded.According to the Eq.(38),d∗(t)can converge to zero,which shows that Theorem 4 is supported.

With the above design,the influence of the unknown frequency bias harmonic curved∗(t)can be directly eliminated,and the attenuation of the remaining bounded disturbanceΔd(t)can be realized by the controller design in the next section.

For the uncertainty of the biased harmonic signal, we derive the derivative ofϖis bounded to prove that our method is effective.It is easy to see from the simulation that the frequency information has good estimation ability.According to Eq.(42), it can be obtained that the uniform ultimate boundedness of the biased harmonic signald∗(t)can be guaranteed under the condition of Eq.(36).At the same time, we give the relationship between parametersα,m1,m2,g1, and the convergence performance of the,d∗.By reasonably selectingαandB,it can avoid the initial value of the frequency parameter estimation value being too large to obtain faster convergence.

4 Design of the Proposed TPFOPID Controller

Given the above observer design,the new controller will be further introduced.In this section,an improved fraction-order PID controller is incorporated into the framework of tension fluctuation observer.A time-varying parameters fractional-order PID controller (TPFOPID) is realized to improve the system control performance and attenuate the bounded noise.

4.1 TPFOPID Controller Design

The control strategy is defined as:

TPFOPID reference the parameter self-coupling control strategy method[31],the parametersKp,KiandKdcan be defined as:

According to[16],an adaptive regulatorf (t)is defined:

The parameterτis determined by the time characteristics of the controlled system.The general value range is 1< τ <100, and the faster the system responds, the value is larger.By assigning the gain parameters to time-varying characteristics, the system can have a large setting margin to achieve large-scale stability.However, when the adaptive regulator in the variable parameters is too large, it is greatly affected by the proportional integral control force.While improving the response speed and anti-disturbance ability of the system,it will also cause overshoot,which makes the tension system vibrate obviously and not conducive to the operation of the actual actuator.When the adaptive regulator is too small, it will affect the response speed and anti-disturbance ability of the system,resulting in unstable tension output.

Theorem 4.When the adjustable parameters in the system controller satisfy>0, the closed-loop system is robustly stable in a large range.

Proof.When the saturation of the controller integrator is limited,0<≤1 can be set,and the control law is:

e1(t)is the error of system input and output,e0(t)is the error integral,e2(t)is the error differential.

For the tension control system Eq.(3):

The controlled error system can be established by bringing Eqs.(46)into(47):

The Laplace change of Eq.(48)can be obtained:

The characteristic polynomial of the transfer function of the closed-loop system under the error state can be defined as follows:

If to ensure thatis a Hurwitz polynomial if and only if the first column elements of the Routh matrix ofare all positive definite,and the first column elements are:

It can be seen that the necessary and sufficient condition for the Eq.(50) to be a Hurwitz polynomial.The coefficients of the closed-loop characteristic equation of the system are positive,and the relationship in Eq.(52)is satisfied.

When the integral control force is under the condition of 0<≤1 limiting, the necessary and sufficient conditions of Hurwitz can be satisfied, which ensures that the poles of the system characteristic polynomial are in the left half plane of the S domain.The closed-loop system is robust and stable in a wide range under the controller.The designed TPFOPID controller aims to improve the system’s convergence and tracking performance and can effectively reduce the bounded noise in the tension fluctuation signal.

4.2 Noisy Scenario

It can be seen from the previous derivation that the tension fluctuation observer effectively compensates and rejects the harmonic disturbance in the tension system, and the variance of the feedbackand the feedforwardobtained under ideal conditions approaches zero.However,the actual non-optimal environment additional output variance

The output variance of the actual tension system:

We consider the scenario where random noise disturbance destroys the system.It is assumed that the bounded noise in the system obeys the Gaussian distribution and satisfiesΔd∼N(0,ρ2).ydrepresents the output under noise disturbance,the actual system outputy=yd-Δd.yyTPdenotes the output of the controller.The residual noise of the controller after noise attenuation,that is,the errorχbetweenyyTPandy,can be expressed as:χ=yyTP-y.

The likelihood functions of y based onandydare:

Using the Bayes formula,the posterior distribution of y is expressed as:

Finally, we use the maximum likelihood method to obtain the estimated value of the system output:

From Eq.(56),we obtain:

The output variance under the controller:

5 Numerical Simulation

Ultimately, various simulations are carried out to prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.The simulation is carried out on the MATLAB platform using SIMULINK and S function editor.

5.1 Simulation for Tension Fluctuation

To verify the effectiveness of proposed method to deal with tension fluctuation, simulation considering different control target angles.The tension control system of Eq.(53)is taken as:

whereJ= 0.00105,Kb= 8.33,Kf= 1.43,Ke= 0.8256,β= 0.207,R= 11.95.The Eq.(53) is converted into the second-order system form of Eq.(1),and the coefficient matrix is obtained:

According to Eq.(10),the gainL0=19.18.

The transfer function fromdtois:

Therefore,according to Eq.(11),the low-pass filter can be designed as follows:

Next,the disturbance observer parameters are selected as:m1=m2= 10,g11=g12=g1= 100,g21=g22=g2= 20,α= 5000;Considering the low-frequency disturbance rejection,the parameters in the matrix in Eq.(23)are selected as:

Case 1 uses the traditional PID controller as the nominal controller, and its parameters are:

Fig.5 shows the estimation performance using the proposed observer.The estimation error and disturbance error ofϖcan converge to zero and the error is very small.

Figure 5:System performance using proposed algorithm

Case 2:d(t)=d∗(t)=500+1000 sin

The random noise disturbance Δdamplitude is 100,and then the disturbance observer parameters are selected as:m1=m2=10,g11=g12=g1=100,g21=g22=g2=20,α=50000

Considering the high-frequency disturbance rejection,the parameters in the matrixBin Eq.(23)are selected as:

Case 2 uses the TPFOPID controller as the nominal controller,and its parameters are:=0.6,=1,=2.

Fig.6 shows the control performance using the proposed scheme.The estimation error and disturbance error ofϖcan converge at 2 s,and the estimation error is less than 60.

Figure 6: (Continued)

In Fig.6b,there are some fluctuations in the error value,which is caused by bounded noise,so the fluctuation will show irregularity and small error.The previous stability analysis has shown that under the influence of bounded noise, the observer is uniformly ultimately bounded when estimating the characteristic parameters of the unknown state,which satisfies the large-scale asymptotic convergence and stability.Therefore,computer simulation shows that the robustness to unexpected noise Δdis safe,which also confirms this conclusion.

5.2 Simulation for Control Performance Comparison

A comparative simulation of the disturbance estimation error is conducted in order to show the properties of the proposed tension fluctuation observer.In [35], the control parameters need to be solved first,and then the observation parameters are solved to balance the filtering performance and dynamic performance,but this also affects the estimation convergence speed,as shown in Fig.7.

Figure 7:Comparison of the estimation error

In the actual winding process,according to the process requirements,the winding tension required for different winding segments is different,and in the continuous winding process,the change of the target tension is instantaneous.In order to intuitively highlight the control effect of the proposed method,we tested the traditional PID controller[10],fuzzy controller[36]and ADRC controller[37]in tension fluctuation control,as shown in Fig.8.Input signals,sampled with a period ofTs=10-6s,is affected by the composite disturbance effect received:bias harmonic signal 200+1000 sinand bounded noise with mean value of 10 and standard deviation of 0.1.And the system has tension mutation behavior at 10 s and 20 s.

Figure 8:Control performance comparison under tension fluctuation

The first red line represents a typical PID controller.This approach has a simple structure,but the system’s recovery capability is lagging,and the stability and robustness of the system are inadequate.

The second orange line represents the active disturbance rejection technique, which is highly adaptive to complex perturbations and can ensure a certain robustness and anti-disturbance ability.However,when the target value of the system changes abruptly,the controller has a long adjustment time,which is easy to cause process errors.

The third cyan line represents a fuzzy controller, which can deal with the nonlinear and timevarying problems in the tension system and can significantly suppress tension fluctuations.However,the complexity and calculation of fuzzy reasoning are enormous,and the control accuracy still needs to be improved.

The TFO+TPFOPID control method proposed in this paper is shown in the blue line.Compared with other methods, this method can effectively reject and attenuate the bias harmonic signals and noise in the multi-source tension fluctuation, ensuring lower tension fluctuation rate and better robustness.

However, it should be noted that the control force of the TPFOPID needs to be improved by adjustable parameters.The frequency estimation speed of the TFO is related to the constant valueα.The tuning must be carefully done in order to balance the relationship between the estimated response and the filtering action.

6 Conclusion

This paper studies the constant tension output control in the fiber winding process,and a tension fluctuation rejection strategy based on feedforward compensation is proposed.A compound control method combining TFO and TPFOPID is designed.The TFO is devised as a frequency generator and a third-order auxiliary filter to estimate and feedforward compensate the unknown state periodic signal in the tension fluctuation.Based on the time-varying parameter coupling theory,a TPFOPID controller is designed to attenuate noise disturbance and improve system robustness.Finally, its stability is proved by the Lyapunov stability theory.Numerical simulation verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method in constant tension control.In the following work,we will implant the proposed method into the platform to further study its effectiveness.

The content of this paper provides a theoretical basis for future research and exploration in practice, but the following discussion still needs to be made.The tension fluctuation generated by the fiber winding process is a complex signal formed by uncertain perturbations of the external environment and internal model.The control scheme proposed in this paper is based on analyzing the actual winding tension data,fitting the tension fluctuation curve,and extracting the components of the perturbation signal.The constant tension control objective is realized by designing TFO observer and TPFOPID controller.However, the complexity of constant tension control in natural systems mainly stems from the diversity and difficulty in characterizing the disturbance components.During the realization of the proposed control scheme, it may face the problems of inaccurate fitting of different signals,the rejection of the actual disturbance signals still with errors,and the challenges of compatibility and reliability of the proposed control strategy in practical control system applications.

In the actual implementation stage,some problems still need to be considered:for example,the mechanical structure defects of the existing equipment and the low sensitivity of the sensors make it challenging to realize high-precision control; the existing technology and energy power make it impossible for the mechanical devices to respond quickly in real-time.Finally, our work provides a control scheme and theoretical basis for solving the tension fluctuation suppression problem in natural winding systems.The next step can be combined with DSPACE and other tools to build a semi-physical simulation platform,which can help us to realize the proposed control scheme in the actual winding equipment.

Acknowledgement:The authors wish to express sincere appreciation to the reviewers for their valuable comments,which significantly improved this paper.

Funding Statement:This research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number 52075361),Shanxi Province Science and Technology Major Project(Grant Number 20201102003),Lvliang Science and Technology Guidance Special Key R&D Project(Grant Number 2022XDHZ08), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 51905367), Shanxi Natural Science Foundation General Project(Grant Numbers 202103021224271;202203021211201),Shanxi Province Key Research and Development Plan(Grant Number 202102020101013).

Author Contributions:The authors confirm contribution to the paper as follows:study conception and design:Yujie Duan,Jianguo Liang,Xinyu Wen;data collection:Yujie Duan,Jianglin Liu;analysis and interpretation of results:Yujie Duan,Xinyu Wen;draft manuscript preparation:Yujie Duan,Haifeng Gao,Yinhui Li,Jinzhu Zhang.All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Availability of Data and Materials:The data that support the findings of this study are available from the first and corresponding authors upon reasonable request.

Conflicts of Interest:The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.