徐州工程学院毕业设计外文翻译学生姓名学院名称机电工程学院专业名称机械设计制造及其自动化指导教师VSS motion control for a laser-cutting machineAles Hace, Karel Jezernik*, Martin TerbucUniversity of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Robotics, Smetanova ul. 17, SI-2000 Maribor, SloveniaReceived 18 October 1999; accepted 2 June 2000AbstractAn advanced position-tracking control algorithm has been developed and applied to a CNC motion controller in a laser-cutting machine. The drive trains of the laser-cutting machine are composed of belt-drives. The elastic servomechanism can be described by a two-mass system interconnected by a spring. Owing to the presence of elasticity, friction and disturbances, the closed-loop performance using a conventional control approach is limited. Therefore, the motion control algorithm is derived using the variable system structure control theory. It is shown that the proposed control e!ectively suppresses the mechanical vibrations and ensures compensation of the system uncertainties. Thus, accurate position tracking is guaranteed. ( 2001 Elsevier Science td. All rights reserved.)Keywords: Position control; Drives; Servomechanisms; Vibrations; Variable structure control; Chattering; Disturbance rejection; Robust control1. Introduction For many industrial drives, the performance of motion control is of particular importance. Rapid dynamic behaviour and accurate position trajectory tracking are of the highest interest. Applications such as machine tools have to satisfy these high demands. Rapid movement with high accuracy at high speed is demanded for laser cutting machines too. This paper describes motion control algorithm for a low-cost laser-cutting machine that has been built on the base of a planar Cartesian table with two degrees-of-freedom (Fig. 1). The drive trains of the laser-cutting machine are composed of belt-drives with a timing belt. The use of timing belts in the drive system is attractive because of their high speed, high efficiency, long travel lengths and low-cost (Haus, 1996). On the other hand, they yield more uncertain dynamics and a higher transmission error ( Kagotani, Koyama & Ueda, 1993). Consequently, belt-drives suffer from lower repeatability and accuracy. Moreover, the belt-drive dynamics include more resonance frequencies, which are a destabilising factor in a feedback control (Moon, 1997). Therefore, a conventional control approach like PI, PD or PID control fails to achieve acceptable performance. Plant parameter variations, uncertain dynamics and load torque disturbances, as well as mechanical vibrations, are factors that have to be addressed to guarantee robust system stability and the high performance of the system. An advanced robust motion control scheme is introduced in this paper, which deals with the issues related to motion control of the drives with timing belts. The control scheme is developed on the basis of the motion control algorithm introduced by Jezernik, Curk and Harnik (1994). It possesses robust properties against the disturbances that are associated with a nominal plant model, as it has been developed with the use of the variable structure system (VSS) theory (Utkin, 1992). The crucial part of the control scheme is the asymptotic disturbance estimator. However, as shown in this paper, it fails to stabilise resonant belt dynamics, since it was developed for a rigid robot mechanism. Therefore, this paper introduces an improved motion control scheme, which suppresses the vibrations that would arise due to the non-rigid, elastic drive. Consequently, a rapid response with low position tracking error is guaranteed.The paper is set out as follows. The laser-cutting machine is presented and the control plant model of the machine drives is developed in Section 2. In Section 3, the VSS control regarding the elastic servomechanism is discussed and the derivation of the motion control scheme is described. Section 4 presents the experimental results and a follow-up discussion. The paper is summarized and concluded in Section 5.2. The control plant2.1. The machine descriptionThe laser-cutting machine consists of the XY horizontal table and a laser system (Fig. 1). The fundamental components of the laser system are: the power supply unit, which is placed off the table and thus is not considered in the motion control design; the laser-beam source, which generates the laser beam (the laser-generator);the laser-head, which directs the laser beam onto the desired position in the cutting plane.Fig. 1. The machine and the controller hardware.The table has to move and position the laser head in a horizontal plane. This is achieved by the means of a drive system with two independent motion axes. They provide movement along the Cartesians XY axes of 2 and 1m, respectively. The X-drive provides the motion of the laser-head in X-direction. The drive and the laser-head as we