Improving efficiency in roll grinding process is a critical issue in the steel mill.Each roll has to be grinded to a well-defined profile and then to be measured for quality check.However,the surface conditions are in...Improving efficiency in roll grinding process is a critical issue in the steel mill.Each roll has to be grinded to a well-defined profile and then to be measured for quality check.However,the surface conditions are inspected by using different on-line inspection probes equipped on the grinder.The roll number is a unique information which can be used to merge with a huge amount of measurement data so that the condition of each roll is fully monitored.One of the key factors that hinder the efficiency in such process is the errors and time consumption due to human intervention.In order to mitigate these issues and to realize the fully automatic grinding process,radio frequency identification technology（RFID） could be a solution and has been developed in this paper.It is well known that when an RFID tag is placed directly upon a metallic object,in the absence of a gap or a substrate,it functions rather poorly and even becomes totally dysfunctional.This limitation,in turn,poses a real barrier to the use of the RFID on metallic objects.This paper proposes a miniature RFID tag antenna design for application on roll number identification.The experimental tests show that the maximum read range of the proposed RFID tag placed on a roll is approximately 1.5m and the overall size is only 32×18×3.2 mm;.An RFID system for roll number identification was used in a roll shop and several remarkable improvements were achieved,including the completely automatic grinding process and the error-free identification,as well as the high personnel safety operation.展开更多
文摘Improving efficiency in roll grinding process is a critical issue in the steel mill.Each roll has to be grinded to a well-defined profile and then to be measured for quality check.However,the surface conditions are inspected by using different on-line inspection probes equipped on the grinder.The roll number is a unique information which can be used to merge with a huge amount of measurement data so that the condition of each roll is fully monitored.One of the key factors that hinder the efficiency in such process is the errors and time consumption due to human intervention.In order to mitigate these issues and to realize the fully automatic grinding process,radio frequency identification technology（RFID） could be a solution and has been developed in this paper.It is well known that when an RFID tag is placed directly upon a metallic object,in the absence of a gap or a substrate,it functions rather poorly and even becomes totally dysfunctional.This limitation,in turn,poses a real barrier to the use of the RFID on metallic objects.This paper proposes a miniature RFID tag antenna design for application on roll number identification.The experimental tests show that the maximum read range of the proposed RFID tag placed on a roll is approximately 1.5m and the overall size is only 32×18×3.2 mm;.An RFID system for roll number identification was used in a roll shop and several remarkable improvements were achieved,including the completely automatic grinding process and the error-free identification,as well as the high personnel safety operation.
