Imec

Robert H Comstock

Donald E Fulton

William P Curtiss

A microprocessor-based motor control system operates the rapid advance motor on a slide transfer machine to carry out rapid traverse motions in minimal time. A velocity profile is stored during the acceleration portion of the move and this data is employed to determine when deceleration should begin and to control velocity during the deceleration portion of the move. A position feedback circuit having programmable resolution is employed to develop the velocity profile.

Motion control system with adaptive deceleration

The present invention generates a motor slip frequency value and two current magnitude values representing quadrature components of the motor stator current to be generated. Closed-loop control of the motor operation is provided by feeding back a signal representative of the motor shaft speed or position calculate the torque required from the motor. The feedback signal is separated into high and low frequency components. Additional circuitry changes the value in response to detected variations in the high frequency components of the feedback signal. The addition of this circuitry causes the motor control circuit to no longer represent the inverse of the motor transfer function network.

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Andover, MA, United States of America

Robert H Comstock