简介：Improvingefficiencyinrollgrindingprocessisacriticalissueinthesteelmill.Eachrollhastobegrindedtoawell-definedprofileandthentobemeasuredforqualitycheck.However,thesurfaceconditionsareinspectedbyusingdifferenton-lineinspectionprobesequippedonthegrinder.Therollnumberisauniqueinformationwhichcanbeusedtomergewithahugeamountofmeasurementdatasothattheconditionofeachrollisfullymonitored.Oneofthekeyfactorsthathindertheefficiencyinsuchprocessistheerrorsandtimeconsumptionduetohumanintervention.Inordertomitigatetheseissuesandtorealizethefullyautomaticgrindingprocess,radiofrequencyidentificationtechnology(RFID)couldbeasolutionandhasbeendevelopedinthispaper.ItiswellknownthatwhenanRFIDtagisplaceddirectlyuponametallicobject,intheabsenceofagaporasubstrate,itfunctionsratherpoorlyandevenbecomestotallydysfunctional.Thislimitation,inturn,posesarealbarriertotheuseoftheRFIDonmetallicobjects.ThispaperproposesaminiatureRFIDtagantennadesignforapplicationonrollnumberidentification.TheexperimentaltestsshowthatthemaximumreadrangeoftheproposedRFIDtagplacedonarollisapproximately1.5mandtheoverallsizeisonly32×18×3.2mm~3.AnRFIDsystemforrollnumberidentificationwasusedinarollshopandseveralremarkableimprovementswereachieved,includingthecompletelyautomaticgrindingprocessandtheerror-freeidentification,aswellasthehighpersonnelsafetyoperation.