Servo Control Device Stiffness Term Vibration Compensation

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Problem

Existing servo control devices face challenges in maintaining precision positioning control due to vibrations from the column, particularly in accurately identifying machine constants for feedforward compensation, leading to difficulties in coping with characteristic vibrations of the carriage and maintaining desired precision.

Innovation Solution

A servo control device with a support-member-reaction-force compensating section that includes a stiffness term for the driven section, allowing for precise compensation of vibrations and improved positioning control, utilizing a transfer function that accounts for the stiffness and viscosity of the support member, identified through resonance frequency and attenuation analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If feedforward compensation control is performed using a transfer function, then positioning control precision can be improved, but it is difficult to accurately identify machine constants in the transfer function

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning control precisionVSAvoidmachine constants identification accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs iterative identification methods where the transfer function parameters are refined through multiple cycles of excitation, measurement, and parameter adjustment. The system continuously compares predicted vibrations with actual measurements and adjusts machine constants accordingly, transforming a difficult one-shot identification problem into a manageable iterative feedback process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes mechanical vibration excitation to identify machine constants. By applying controlled vibrations to the system and measuring the response, the identification process can extract dynamic characteristics including stiffness and damping parameters. This vibration-based approach enables accurate identification of transfer function parameters that would be difficult to obtain through static measurements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #18Mechanical vibration

2Manufacturing precision

If a transfer function model is used for vibration compensation, then column vibrations can be compensated, but characteristic vibrations of the carriage caused by column vibrations cannot be coped with

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecarriage positioning precisionVSAvoidvibration compensation coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the vibration compensation into multiple components: column vibrations and carriage characteristic vibrations. By creating separate transfer function models for each vibration source and their interactions, the system can independently identify and compensate for each type of vibration, thereby achieving comprehensive compensation coverage that a single unified model cannot provide.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary measurement system that captures both column vibrations and carriage vibrations separately. This intermediary measurement layer enables the identification of the complex interaction between column and carriage dynamics, allowing the compensation system to address characteristic vibrations that arise from the coupled system rather than treating them as a single undifferentiated phenomenon.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Manufacturing precision

If machine constants are not appropriately identified, then the desired precision cannot be maintained even with feedforward compensation control

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning control precisionVSAvoididentification process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent systematically varies excitation parameters (frequency, amplitude, timing) to identify machine constants across different operating conditions. By changing parameters in a controlled manner and observing system responses, the identification process can extract accurate constants without requiring overly complex measurement setups or computational algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8723472B2Servo control device
Publication Date: 2014.05.13 MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND MACHINE TOOL CO LTD
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AI summary

Improved precision is realized in positioning control. Provided is a servo control device that is applied to a numerical control equipment provided with a screw-feeding section that converts rotational movement of a motor to linear movement, a driven section that is linearly moved by the screw-feeding section, and a support member by which the screw-feeding section and the driven section are supported and that controls the motor so as to match a position of the driven section to a positioning instruction, including a support-member-reaction-force compensating section 311 that compensates for vibrations of the driven section due to a vibrational reaction force of the support member, wherein a transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section 311 includes a stiffness term for the driven section.