Disturbance Observer-Based Modeling and Parameter Identification for Synchronous Dual-Drive Ball Screw Gantry Stage

Abstract

A novel algorithm is proposed to identify the parameters of a synchronous dual-drive ball screw gantry system in this paper. The modeling of the gantry system is described in this paper, and dynamic equations are used to derive the relationship from the motor to the coupling mechanism. The modeling results are used to design the algorithm used to identify the model parameters. The proposed algorithm uses two disturbance observers (DOB) to identify the parameters for the coupling mechanism and sliding stages. The sinusoidal position and velocity commands for the proposed identification algorithm are relatively smooth to avoid damaging the mechanism. The proposed method is easy to implement in the position control loop and velocity control loop. Finally, simulation and experimental results show that the proposed DOBs can accurately estimate the parameters for a gantry system, and the estimated results can be further used to design a corresponding controller for the gantry stage.