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EPSRC Reference: GR/H66495/01
Title: ADVANCED CONTROL FOR HIGH SPEED PROCESS MACHINERY: INVESTIGATION OF CONTROL STRATEGIES
Principal Investigator: Mort, Dr N
Other Investigators:
Johnson, Dr AR
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
British United Shoe Machinery Ltd
Department: Automatic Control and Systems Eng
Organisation: University of Sheffield
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 January 1993 Ends: 31 December 1995 Value (£): 116,842
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Robotics & Autonomy
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Manufacturing
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The objective of the research is to devise automatic control strategies to facilitate the automation of the shoe roughing process. Although the techniques to be investigated will be applied on shoe manufacturing machinery, they could be usefully explored in a wider industrial context.The control strategy will be based on a combination of the development of model-based monitoring techniques, together with fuzzy logic control to deal with the inaccuracy inherent in the feedback signals. Mathematical models will be developed to describe the dynamic behaviour of the process and the sensors.
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