Abstract
Thin steel plates are widely used in various industrial products. However, there are problems where deterioration of surface quality and metal plating occurred by transporting. As a solution to these problems, a noncontact transport of steel plate using electromagnetic force has been proposed. However, there is a risk that side slipping or the dropping of the plate may occur. Therefore we have proposed the addition of electromagnetic actuators to control the horizontal motion of levitated steel plate. In this study, a thin steel plate (0.24 mm thickness) was magnetically levitated, and we carried out transport experiments to discuss the effect of a magnetic field from horizontal direction applied to the levitated steel plate on its elastic vibration. As a result, it is confirmed that the application of a magnetic field in the horizontal direction improves the levitation stability of transported thin steel plate.