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13.3.2 Experimental results in hard disk drives
The pl ant under consideration and the linear control ler are the same as in Section
8.6 of Chapter 8. The nonlinear control signal u
N
in Fi gure 13.7 is calculated from
(13.5)−(13 .6) and (2.56) in Section 2.4.2 of Chapter 2. The center positio ns c
e
i
and
c
∆e
i
for the measurement e and velocity ˙e are chosen as zero. The variances are
σ
2
e
i
= σ
2
∆e
i
= 10, i = 1, ..., p . The forgetting factor δ = 0.5. Γ affects the learning
speed and should be selected to b e as large as possible.
To evaluate the disturbance rejection performance o f the combined linear cont rol
C(z) designed in Section 8.6 in Chapter 8 and the nonlinear control (13.6), a sinu-
soidal signal with the logarithmically spaced frequency f rom 10 Hz to 22.5 kHz is
respectively injected as w in Figure 13.7. For each frequency sinusoidal i nput, the
error signal e will involve multiple frequency components due to the nonlinear con-
trol. In this situation, it is reasonable that the error rejection capabilit y is directly
measured as the amplitude ratio e/w in time domain. At each frequency point, the
error rejection e/w is then plotted and shown in Figure 13.8.
The error rejection capability is evaluated for each value o f p = 1, 5, 9. As in
Figur e 13.8, the two cases with p = 1 and p = 5 give similar results, and bo th are
better than that given by p = 9. This implies that a higher p may not necessarily
lead to a better result. This phenomenon i s consi stent with the observation in mod-
eling. Overall, from the simulation result, the nonlinear control pr oduces a better
rejection of disturbances of low frequencies, while not affecting t he high frequ ency
disturbance rejection performance.
Figur e 13 .8 also shows the effect of Γ on the error rejection. 10% of the Γ value
in (2.58) is used in the calculation. It is observed that the larger Γ yields a better
accuracy. This also agrees with the modeling result in Section 2.4.2 in Chapter 2 .
Consequently, corresponding to the error rejection i n Figure 13.8 with p = 1, the
power spectrum of PES NRRO is shown in Fig 13.9. It is observed that the error
is much lowered by 8 0% before 400 Hz, and no cost in higher frequency range is
paid. Overall it is evaluated from calculation that the 3 σ of the true PES NRRO
is improved from 6.0 nm with the KYP Lemma method to 5.5 nm with the KYP
Lemma-based li near cont rol augmented with the nonlinear control.
REMARK 13.1 It should be mentioned tha t the nonlinear compensation
scheme can b e combined with any l inear control to improve low frequency
vibratio n rejection without sacrificing disturbance rejection capability in other
frequency ranges.