Abstract
Most machine tools rely on precision ball screw drives to accurately position the workpiece relative to the tool. The quality of the machining outcome depends significantly on the tracking performance of the workpiece position over a desired trajectory. This paper addresses the minimization of the tracking error in a ball screw drive system in the presence of dynamic variations. Three sources of dynamic variations are considered: mechanical flexibility, runout of the ball screw shaft, and workpiece mass change during operations. Dynamic variations due to flexibility and runout are related to the workpiece position which is continuously measurable, while the variation caused by the workpiece mass change is uncertain. The ball screw drive system affected by dynamic variations is expressed as an uncertain linear model with time-varying parameters. Based on this model, servo controllers are designed such that their parameters are adjusted in real time by the measurable workpiece position to improve the tracking performance and that their performance is maintained robustly over uncertain mass variation. The importance of taking into account flexibility and runout of the shaft, as well as mass variation, explicitly in controller design is demonstrated through a ball screw drive experimental setup.
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