Affiliations: [a] Course of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanawaga, Japan | [b] Course of Science and Technology, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanawaga, Japan | [c] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hokkaido University of Science, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | [d] Department of Electrical Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan | [e] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract: In the production line of thin steel plates, contact conveyance by rollers causes deterioration in the surface quality of the plates. To solve this problem, our research group has been continuously investigating the optimal placement of permanent magnets in hybrid magnetic levitation systems. In this study, when a thin steel sheet was magnetically levitated, the effect of the horizontal electromagnet position on the gap between the steel sheet and the permanent magnet was investigated through a permanent magnet configuration optimized using a genetic algorithm.
