Development of alignment-guidance device for grooved roll mill using parallel projection imaging technique

The accuracy in the arrangement of grooved rolls for the finishing rolling mill is of large importance for the good roundness of the bar steel product supplied to the precision machinery components such as the bearing of the high speed motor. Combining telecentric optics, silhouette image processing techniques, and statistical data processing allowed the development of the quantitative alignment guidance technique of the grooved rolls. The developed system demonstrated a high measuring accuracy and was seen to have practical use.