Constant Small Tension Control for Fiber Optic Coil Variable-Velocity Winding

Abstract

Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) is a new type of rotation sensor that plays an important role in navigation and guidance system. As the sense element of FOG, the fiber coil (FOC) performance directly affects the FOG measurement precision. Many factors influence the quality of FOC, ideal structure and constant small tension control in the winding process were key factors. In order to prevent FOC edge defect, we proposed piecewise variable speed winding method to make regular FOC structure more accessible. In view of the shortage of the common control method used in FOC winding, we optimized fuzzy PID by introducing domain adjusting factors and designed a new tension controller based on mechanical analysis. The optimization controller can adaptively adjust the control factors to ideal settings and ensure constant tension throughout all variable winding speeds stages even in the present of complex external disturbance. Comparative experiments shown that the new controller has a higher accuracy and better robustness than commonly used controller.