A New System for Textile Web Feeding at Calendering Lines in Tiremaking Industry

Abstract

In this paper a new system for control of textile web feeding into the calendering process is presented. It consists of three stages: textile web centering, web center spreading and web edges spreading. The control of these processes is based on information on cords distribution and orientation obtained from vision sensors. Acquired vision signal processing is based on two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform. Experimental verification of this method has shown satisfactory results when real-world disturbances and real-time applicability are considered.