Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Xiao Ma

Orhan Beker

Yanan Huang

Wenlin Zhang

Yiqian Li

A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk comprising a plurality of tracks defined by servo sectors, a head, and a servo controller configured to servo the head over the disk based on an estimated state generated by a state estimator. The servo controller is configured to execute a seek operation to seek the head over the disk and recover from a servo fault during the seek operation by generating an initial state estimate of the head at the beginning of the servo fault, and decelerating the head open-loop using a model-based deceleration control in response to the initial state estimate. While decelerating the head, the state estimator is re-qualified before the head reaches zero velocity, and after re-qualifying the state estimator and before the head reaches zero velocity, a seek operation is executed to seek the head to a target track closed-loop using the state estimator.

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