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7.4.3 Implementation on a hard disk drive
The experi metal setup is the same as in Figure 7.17. An LDV wi th a range of 2
µm/V is used to measure the positio n of the dual- stage actuator. Controllers are
implemented with dSpace 1103 on a TMS320C2 40 DSP board. When the dual-
stage loop is cl osed and stabilized with t he desig ned controllers, a swept sine signal
is injected at point A . A DSA is then used to measure the frequency response of
points B over A and o btain the sensitivity function.
The resultant sensitivi ty functio n is shown in Figure 7.28 , where the rough line is
the testing result and th e smooth line is the simulati on result. We can observe that the
hump of the sensitivity function is lower than 3 dB, which i s better than that by a PID
design as shown by the dott ed line in Figure 7.28. The testing and simulation results
of the dual-stage open loop system are shown in Figure 7.29. The step response in
Figur e 7.30 shows that the system is stabilized and working in real time. Channel 2
in Figure 7.30 is the control signal of the VCM actuator and Channel 3 is the control
signal of the PZT mi croactuator.
The sensitivity function as in Figure 7.28 will amplify the correspon ding high-
frequency disturbances shown in Figure 7.2 du e to the h ump above 0 dB. The po-
sition error i s evaluated from ( 7.1) with the designed sensitivity functions. The 3σ
value of the position error versus frequencies is shown in Figure 7.31, wh ere we can
see that the low-hump design outperforms the PID design for disturbance rejecti on
after 2.4 kHz, which is consistent with Figure 7.28.
The proposed control design is based on the sensitivity w eighting function only
and does not consider robustn ess to plant parameter variations. This, however, will
not hamper the practical application of the resulting controllers due to the large gain
and phase margin s. The system is verified to maintain stability in spite of the vari-
ation of resonance frequency, e.g., ±5% shift of PZT resonance frequency around
13.5 kHz. The performance change with the presence of the system parameter un-
certainty is ill ustrated in Figure 7.31, where we can see that the perfor mance varies
slightly.
7.5 Conclusion
An H
∞
method has been proposed in both continuous and discrete time domains
to achieve a low-hump sensitivity function for dual-stage HDD systems using an
LMI approach. Two different microactuator models have been studied, w hich are
represented by a MEMS actuator and a PZT actuated suspension. With the proposed
selection of sensitivity weighting functions, the sensitivity function with a hump
below 3 dB has been achieved i n both simulations and experiments. Such a design
process can generate a robust servo controller with high disturbance rej ecti on in a
low frequency range, and less vibration amplification in a high frequency range, and
thus is effective in achieving hi gher positioning accuracy.