High performance control of a Direct Drive

J. Weigel (Advisor: P. Mutschler)

Status: finished by PhD Thesis in 2004

High speed machine tools require highly dynamic feed drives. Linear direct drives meet the requirements. Reasons for this are high accelerations due to a low mass that is to be moved and the lack of mechanical transmission elements, which limit the dynamic performance. To take advantage of such a machine’s dynamic potential, a high performance control is needed. This project’s purpose is to develop one. Direct regulation techniques are suitable for this, e.g. the direct speed control DSPC, which was basically, theoretically developped at this department. Beyond this, the system status is to be known as accurate as possible and disturbances shall be compensated if necessary. The developped regulation concept will be validated with a permanent magnet syncronous linear drive.

“Acquisition Of A Permanent Magnet Synchronous Linear Motor's Electrical Parameters And Dead Beat Current Control Considering Saturation”
IEMDC 2003, 01-04.06, Madison Wiscensin, USA; pages 791-798

“Modelling and control of a permanent magnet linear synchronous motor featuring unbalance and saturation including cross-saturation”
IEEE 35th Annual PESC; June 20-25, 2004; Aachen

“Modellbildung und parameteradaptive hochdynamische Regelung eines permanenterregten Synchronlinearmotors” (opens in new tab)
D17 Darmstädter PhD Thesis 2004