Servo control device

• US 8,723,472 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Katsuyoshi, Yamamoto, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ip, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/146,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285340A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,433 Days
• Field of Search: 318560-562, 318/571, 318/572, 318/135, 318/632, 318/687, 318/609, 318/610, 318/649, 188/378
• US Class Current: 318/632
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/404 characterised by control arrangements for compensation, e.g. for backlash, overshoot, tool offset, tool wear, temperature, machine construction errors, load, inertia G05B19/19, G05B19/41 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/41117 Cancel vibration during positioning of slide
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/41128 Compensate vibration beam, gantry, feedback of speed of non driven end

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. 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 is configured to control the motor so as to match a position of the driven section to an instructed position, comprising;

a machine-deflection compensating section, to which the instructed position is input as input information, and which is configured to compensate for positioning-control errors caused by vibrations of the support member, and to output a compensated instructed position; and

a velocity feedforward section, to which the compensated instructed position is input;

wherein the velocity feedforward section includes

a support-member-reaction-force compensating section that is configured to compensate for vibrations of the driven section due to vibrational reaction force of the support member, and

wherein a differential value of the compensated instructed position, as input information, is input to a transfer function, which is provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section and includes coefficients based on an inertia term for the support member, an inertia term for the driven section, a stiffness term for the support member, and a stiffness term for the driven section.

2. A servo control device according to claim 1, further comprising an instructed velocity calculation section that is configured to calculate an instructed velocity, which is a value obtained by:

a velocity difference based on a difference between the compensated instructed position output from the machine-deflection compensating section and a load position;

an output from the velocity feedforward section; and

a velocity of the motor.

3. A servo control device according to claim 1, wherein the transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section includes a stiffness term for the support member, and the stiffness term of the support member is identified on the basis of a vibration resonance frequency of vibrations generated when an impact is applied to the support member or the driven section.

4. A control device according to claim 3, comprising a constant identifying section that is configured to identify the stiffness term for the support member,

wherein the constant identifying section includes:

an impact generating section that is configured to vibrate the driven section by applying an impact to the driven section;

a vibration detecting section that is configured to detect the vibrations of the driven section or the support member when the impact is applied thereto; and

a support-member-stiffness-term identifying section that is configured to calculate a resonance frequency of the driven section from a vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section and to identify the stiffness term for the support member from this resonance frequency.

5. A servo control device according to claim 1, wherein the transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section includes a coefficient based on a viscosity term for the support member;

and configured to identify the viscosity term of the support member on the basis of attenuation of the vibrations generated when the support member or the driven section is vibrated by applying an impact thereto.

6. A servo control device according to claim 5, comprising a constant identifying section that is configured to identify the viscosity term for the support-member-reaction-force compensating section,

wherein the constant identifying section includes:

an impact generating section that is configured to vibrate the driven section by applying an impact to the driven section;

a vibration detecting section that is configured to detect the vibrations of the driven section or the support member when the impact is applied thereto; and

a support-member-viscosity-term identifying section that is configured to calculate an attenuation rate of the vibrations of the driven section from a vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section and to identify the viscosity term for the support member from the attenuation rate of the vibrations.

7. A servo control device according to claim 4, wherein the impact generating section is configured to vibrate the driven section by moving the driven section with a predetermined acceleration or above.

8. A servo control device according to claim 4, wherein, when amplitudes of the vibrations of the driven section detected by the vibration detecting section exceed a predetermined threshold after the stiffness term for the support member is identified, the constant identifying section is configured to adjust the stiffness term for the support member on the basis of the vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section.

9. A servo control device according to claim 8, wherein, during a period in which the numerical control equipment is being driven, the constant identifying section is configured to compare the vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section with an estimated vibration signal calculated from a model in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section and is configured to adjust the stiffness term for the support member on the basis of this comparison.

10. A servo control device according to claim 2, wherein the transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section includes a stiffness term for the support member, and the stiffness term of the support member is identified on the basis of a vibration resonance frequency of vibrations generated when an impact is applied to the support member or the driven section.

11. A servo control device according to claim 2, wherein the transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section includes a coefficient based on a viscosity term for the support member;

and configured to identify the viscosity term of the support member on the basis of attenuation of the vibrations generated when the support member or the driven section is vibrated by applying an impact thereto.

12. A servo control device according to claim 6, wherein the impact generating section is configured to vibrate the driven section by moving the driven section with a predetermined acceleration or above.

13. A servo control device according to claim 4, wherein, when amplitudes of the vibrations of the driven section detected by the vibration detecting section exceed a predetermined threshold after the viscosity term for the support member is identified, the constant identifying section is configured to adjust the viscosity term for the support member on the basis of the vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section.

14. A servo control device according to claim 13, wherein, during a period in which the numerical control equipment is being driven, the constant identifying section is configured to compare the vibration signal detected by the vibration detecting section with an estimated vibration signal calculated from a model in the support-member reaction-force compensating section and to adjust the viscosity term for the support member on the basis of this comparison.