Robust observer design for multi-motor web-winding system

This paper develops a novel observer design method for multi-motor web-winding system. Firstly, the multi-motor web-winding system is regarded as a synthetic system with several subsystems, where the dynamic model for each subsystem is given. Then, the nonlinear diffeomorphism transformation is introduced to obtain a transformed system with block triangular structure and the interconnections among the subsystems are allowed. Next, a decentralized high-gain observer with sliding mode is designed for the transformed system, based on which the estimation error dynamics can be got. Sufficient condition of asymptotic stability for estimation error dynamics is derived by the Lyapunov stability theory and the observer gain is obtained. After that, the observer for original multi-motor web-winding system is achieved via inverse transformation. Finally, the simulation and analysis are performed in the three-motor web-winding system to verify the effectiveness of the proposed observer.