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Speed Synchronization of Multiple Bldcmotors In Textile &Paper

Mills Using Micro Controller
Ankur Shukla1, Ankit Kumar2, Anil Kumar Rajak3,Vivek Kumar Singh4,
Santhosh S5
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Research Scholar Department of Electrical & Electronics, NHCE, Bangalore, India

Asst. Professor Department of Electrical & Electronics,NHCE, Bangalore,India,

Abstract
Multiple motor setup has vast application in industries. The application can be in textile mills, paper mills and
robotics. In these all application the synchronization is must between the motors to perform certain task. Speed
synchronization is very essential in these all operation to avoid damage to the product. The synchronization is
done by using microcontroller chip which controls the master slave whose speed is followed by the other motors
which all have to be synchronized.
Index TermsSpeed synchronization, textile mills, paper mills,microcontroller chip, master slave.

I.

INTRODUCTION

In this project motors are wirelessly

synchronized to make the differential speed error
among multiple motors to zero. One motor acts here
as transmitter and rest of all as receivers. so, if a
particular speed is set in the transmitter then
automatically rest of the motors speed would be
matched to the same speed of the master slave.A
display unit connected with the module will display
the full speed in rpm and the observer can enter the
required percentage with help of a keypad to obtain
the required speed for rest of the motors. The pulse
width output from the microcontroller would be
automatically adjusted by the microcontroller to
maintain the DC power to the motor such that the
entered speed percentage matches the running RPM.
The above operation is taken care by using OPTO
isolator and a MOSFET connected to motor.The aim
of this project is synchronization of multiple motor
System by making use ofwirelesstechnology. This
project uses radio frequency to synchronize different
motors speeds. This system is used in many
industries like textile mills, steel plants, and paper
plants where large numbers of the motors used on
conveyor are desired to be synchronized for
performing certain task. In paper mills & textile mills
where multiple motors work together on a conveyor
belt to draw clothes, it is desirable that all the motors
should run at same speed, so that balanced tension
can be achieved to avoid
damage to the clothes. Manpower and time is also
saved in this arrangement. User can set the desired
rpm for the motors. As this system is Wireless, it is
easy to operate and control the system which eases
the whole process. The speed synchronization of
multiple motor arrangements is very important task
which is here carried out wirelessly by using
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microcontroller chip. Due to wireless connection

between the motors the motors can be kept in any
position it is not necessary as earlier old concept of
conveyor belt that the motors should be kept only on
parallel series or mixed. with each other.Multiple
motors used in textile industries & paper mills or any
other for cloth drawing or to pull the paper as in
paper mill need to be synchronized for same speed.
Traditionally we use conveyor belts in order to
synchronize multiple motor for such works. But that
has many draw backs. This can be come over by
using the wireless synchronization of multiple
motors.
Drawbacks of using conveyor belt for speed
synchronization. [Earlier Method]
The master slave [main motor] will be the
hardest to start, stop and maintain smooth motion
on the whole process.

All the motors should be connected in Parallel.

As there are moving elements like belts between
the motors, we need to change then if it is not
serviceable and regular service in also required
when they will get damage.

The design of master slave or follower motors in

the system may be series, branch, or mixed.
Again the system and its product will determine
what piece of equipment is directly synched or
digitally rationed to each other piece of
equipment.
Maintenance is bit difficult as there are more
mechanical parts in the system.
Solution for old Concept of Conveyor Belt:
There are so many other different techniques for
the solution this problem. But those are not that
reliable. In order to reduce man intervention and save
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the labor cost and time both we can use
microcontroller to control, operate and synchronize
this task. As compared to conveyor belt method is
compatible as it involves hardware as well as
software in this module. We can program
microcontroller to control its speed and also can set
the required speed through keypad to get our work
done. Synchronization can done either wired or
wirelessly. In this project we are using RF
communication
technology
for
wireless
communication.

II.

V.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM FOR RECEVER

UNIT:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

8051 series Microcontroller, Crystal, RF

MODULE, LEDs, Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes,
Transformer,
Voltage Regulator, IR sensor,
MOSFET, Keypad, Transistor,
OPTO-isolator,
BLDC fan.

III.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

MPLAB & CCS C

Embedded C or Assembly.

IV.

compiler. Language:

BLOCK DIAGRAM FOR

TRANSMITTING UNIT:

VI.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM FOR

RECIEVER UNIT:

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VII.

HARDWARE COMPONET:

VIII.

WORKING OF PROJECT:

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FLOW CHART:

The speed of the motor is sensed by an IR pair

and is displayed on LCD and is also fed to the
MC.
The required speed is entered using a keypad
which is interfaced with MC.
The motor is interfaced to the MC through
aopto-coupler & a MOSFET which drives the
motor.
PWM pulses are generated from MC according
to the entered speed and the motor is adjusted to
that speed and maintained at that speed.

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X.

SOFTWARE REQUIRED:

Keil an ARM Company makes C compilers,

macro assemblers, real-time kernels, debuggers,
simulators, integrated environments, evaluation
boards, and emulators for ARM7/ARM9/CortexM3, XC16x/C16x/ST10, 251, and 8051 MCU
families.
Compilers are programs used to convert a High
Level Language to object code. Desktop
compilers produce an output object code for the
underlying microprocessor, but not for other
microprocessors.
i.e., the programs written in one of the HLL like
C will compile the code to run on the system
for a particular processor like x86 (underlying
microprocessor in the computer).
For example compilers for Dos platform is
different from the Compilers for Unix
platform So if one wants to define a compiler
then compiler is a program that translates source
code into object code.

XI.

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ADVANTAGE OF USING BLDC

MOTOR OVER BRUSHED DC
MOTOR:

The BLDC motor has to many advantages over the

brushed DC motor which is shown below:

Higher efficiency and reliability

Lower acoustic noise due to absence of brushes
Smaller and lighter
Greater dynamic response
Better speed versus torque characteristics
Higher speed range
Longer life span

XII.

OBSERVATIONS AND
CONCLUSION:

We can tabulate different-different speeds of

motor as we keep on giving input from the Keypad
and same speed change can be observed and
displayed at the receiving motors. From this project
we can successfully control the speed of multiple
motors wirelessly through RF communication.
Whatever the percentage of speed that we enter at
transmitter unit of system same can be observed at
the receiving motors. The whole operation is made
simple by using this technology. The future works
include giving intelligence to the whole system like if
any of the motor senses any fault, the whole system
will shut down.

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