Hybrid Motor System for High Precision Position Control of a Heavy Load Plant

Abstract

The lift up or press process with high precision position control is an important application in industries. An example of the process lift up and press is the process of a machine tool for drilling, milling, or injection. It is difficult to design the mechanism and controller to control the position of the base table accuracy because it needs to control the base position of the system with the weight varying in a large range. Also, the friction in the system would vary in a large range. This lead to low performance of the system in some range of load. Therefore, the new design system utilizes a DC motor and ball screw and pneumatic actuator to create the hybrid motor system for applying to the lift up and press system. The pneumatic actuator is designed to support the heavy load and the DC motor and ball screw is designed to control the position. Then, the developed hybrid motor can be used to improve the performance of the system. The simulation and experiment results show that the developed system can improve the rise time, setting time, and steady state error. Then, the time response of the system with heavy load look similar to the time response of the system with light load. Moreover, the developed hybrid motor technique can apply to the applications such as to control the 3D powder painter tank base position, and the silicon injection system, the 3D print head, which is a challenge system due to the high friction in tube.