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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1999
Margot Ann LaPanse, Superior, CO (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Herein is disclosed a method and apparatus for controlling the excitation of a servomechanism in a disc drive with a low frequency stimulus, yet necessitating the control system to include only a model of the servomechanism's response to having been excited by a high frequency stimulus (square-wave). The invention uses a square wave as a feedforward input signal. This feedforward input signal is low-pass filtered and used as a stimulus to excite the servomechansim, during seek operations. The response of the servomechanism is measured at intervals. The response of the servomechanism is predicted, by a servomechanism model, as if the servomechanism had been excited by the feedforward square-wave signal, rather than its filtered counterpart. The predicted response of the servomechanism is then filtered, using a similar low-pass filter. The difference between filtered modeled responses and the measured responses are used to subsequently adjust the signal that stimulates the servomechanism.
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