Patent Publication Number: US-8120303-B2

Title: Method and apparatus for controlling inertial system

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for controlling an inertial system. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique for suppressing vibration in an inertial system. 
     2. Description of Related Art 
     A mechanism, in which a motive power generator and a load machine, which are inertial bodies, are coupled via an compliant torque transmission element, is a two-inertia system. When the motive power generator produces abrupt acceleration or deceleration, a deviation occurs between the position and speed of the motive power generator and those of the load machine in the two-inertia system. Thus, if a typical servo control device is used to control the two-inertia system, the system stability decreases, and vibration occurs on load machine. 
     The typical servo control device has a rotation detector on the side of the rotational motive power generator. Therefore, when the stiffness of the torque transmission element is so low that the load machine is not regarded as a rigid body, the motion of the load machine is delayed because of the torsion of the torque transmission element. Thus, although the motive power generator can follow the position command, the load machine can no longer follow the position command, and as a result, vibration occurs on load machine. 
     As a solution to this problem, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-56790 discloses a vibration suppression approach that suppresses vibration in a two-inertia system by removing a vibration component from an operation command. According to this vibration suppression method, the operation command is filtered by a vibration suppression filter having the same frequency characteristics as a notch filter, thereby suppressing a gain peak due to an anti-resonance frequency. 
     However, in the conventional vibration suppression apparatus there is a possibility that the motion of the load machine is slowed, or that the response of the load machine to the operation command is delayed, because of the responsiveness of the vibration suppression filter. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Thus, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for controlling an inertial system that can suppress vibration of a load machine without reducing the responsiveness of the load machine to an operation command. 
     The present invention provides a method for controlling an inertial system that has a motive power generator, a load machine, and a torque transmission element that couples the motive power generator and the load machine to each other. In order to attain the objective described above, the control method includes a step of generating a position command and an acceleration command that are in phase with each other, a step of setting a vibration suppression control variable by multiplying the acceleration command by a predetermined gain; and a step of forming a control command by adding the vibration suppression control variable to the position command. 
     The step of generating a position command and an acceleration command that are in phase with each other can include a sub-step of estimating the acceleration command based on an input position command and estimating the position command that is in phase with the acceleration command based on the estimated acceleration command. In this case, the input position command is composed of a pulse sequence. 
     According to the present invention to get better vibration suppression, the method can include a step of suppressing jerk components of the position command and the acceleration command that are in phase with each other. This is accomplished by using first and second filter elements having the same frequency characteristics, respectively. 
     In the case in which the position command and the acceleration command that are in phase with each other are estimated from the input position command as described above, a jerk component of the input position command can be suppressed by a filter element so that the jerk components of the estimated position command and acceleration command are suppressed. 
     The gain by which the acceleration command is multiplied can be set based on an anti-resonance frequency of the inertial system or based on a stiffness coefficient of the torque transmission element and an inertia value of the load machine. 
     The present invention also provides an apparatus for controlling an inertial system that has a motive power generator, a load machine, and a torque transmission element that couples the motive power generator and the load machine to each other. In order to attain the objective described above, the apparatus includes a command generating device for generating a position command and an acceleration command that are in phase with each other, an manipulated variable setting device for setting a vibration suppression control variable by multiplying the acceleration command by a predetermined gain, a control command forming device for forming a control command by adding the vibration suppression control variable to the position command, and a driving device for driving the motive power generator based on the control command. 
     For example, the command generating device may be configured to estimate the acceleration command based on an input position command and estimate the position command that is in phase with the acceleration command based on the estimated acceleration command. In this case, the input position command is a position command composed of a pulse sequence, for example. 
     The command generating device can be configured to internally directly generate the position command and the acceleration command that are in phase with each other. In this case, the input position command is not necessary, therefore the configuration of the apparatus is simplified. 
     According to the present invention to get better vibration suppression, the apparatus may further include first and second filter elements that suppress jerk components of the position command and the acceleration command that are in phase with each other, respectively. The first and second filter elements have the same frequency characteristics. 
     In the case of using the command generating device that estimates the position command and the acceleration command that are in phase with each other from the input position command, a filter element that removes a jerk component of the input position command can be used so that the jerk components of the estimated position command and acceleration command are suppressed. 
     The gain by which the variable setting device multiplies the acceleration command can be set based on an anti-resonance frequency of the inertial system or based on a stiffness coefficient of the torque transmission element and an inertia value of the load machine. The variable setting device may have a means of manually adjusting the gain. 
     The present invention also applies an industrial machine that uses any of the control apparatuses described above. 
     According to the present invention, the vibration suppression control variable is the acceleration command multiplied by the predetermined gain, and the vibration suppression control variable is added to the position command as a feed-forward control variable. Therefore, a torque required to make the load machine start moving can be produced on the torque transmission element to achieve quick response of the load machine and prevent vibration of the load machine. 
     In addition, since the gain can be set based on a single constant parameter, that is, the anti-resonance frequency of the inertial system, it does not require time for parameter adjustment, and the components for achieving vibration suppression are simplified. In addition, since the vibration suppression control variable is used as the feed-forward control variable, the vibration suppression control variable does not adversely affect the response frequency of the control system nor cause an instability in the control system. Therefore, typical users can achieve effective vibration suppression without specialized knowledge or techniques. 
     The present invention can be applied to any inertial system that includes a rotary or translation mechanism or that includes an electric or non-electric motive power generator. Therefore, the present invention can be widely applied to vibration suppression control of machines that include a torque transmission element having low stiffness. In addition, the present invention can be advantageously applied to both an open loop control system and a closed loop control system. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a conceptual diagram showing a model of a two-inertia system; 
         FIG. 2  is a block diagram showing a typical control model for a two-inertia system; 
         FIG. 3  is a block diagram showing a control model for a two-inertia system according to a vibration suppression principle of the present invention; 
         FIG. 4  is a graph showing the result of a simulation performed with the control model shown in  FIG. 2 ; 
         FIG. 5  is a graph showing the result of a simulation performed with the control model shown in  FIG. 3 ; 
         FIG. 6  is an enlarged view specifically showing a rising period during the variation of the position of a motive power generator shown in  FIG. 5 ; 
         FIG. 7  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 8  is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a command generating section; 
         FIG. 9  is a graph showing characteristics of a variation of a theoretically determined acceleration of a load machine and characteristics of a variation of an estimated acceleration of the load machine; 
         FIG. 10  is a graph showing behavior of the speed of the load machine after operation of the motive power generator is ended in the case in which feed-forward control using a vibration suppression control variable is not performed; 
         FIG. 11  is a graph showing behavior of the speed of the load machine after operation of the motive power generator is ended in the case in which feed-forward control using the vibration suppression control variable is performed; 
         FIG. 12  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention; 
         FIG. 13  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention, which is the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 7  additionally provided with an excitation force suppressing section; 
         FIG. 14  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention, which is the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 12  additionally provided with excitation force suppressing sections; and 
         FIG. 15  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus according to the present invention that has an open loop configuration. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     A mechanism for transmitting an output of a rotational motive power generator to a load in an inertial system via a torque transmission element is configured as a two-inertia system.  FIG. 1  shows the relationship between a torque transmission element  1  and a load element  2 . As shown in this drawing, in the two-inertia system, the torque transmission element  1 , which is compliant, can be modeled as a spring. As will be apparent from the following description, the present invention uses the spring kinematics to suppress the vibration of the load element  2 . 
     The upper part of  FIG. 1  shows a state in which no torque is applied to the load element  2 . When a torque is applied to the load element  2  via the torque transmission element  1 , the torque transmission element  1  is elastically deformed as shown in the lower part of  FIG. 1 , and as a result, a position deviation Δθ occurs between the torque transmission element  1  and the load element  2 . A torque T 1  occurring on the torque transmission element  1  is expressed by the following equation of motion.
 
 T   1   =K·     θ   (1)
 
In this formula, K denotes the stiffness coefficient (or spring constant) of the torque transmission element  1 .
 
     A torque T 2  required to make the load element  2  start moving is expressed by the following equation of motion, the acceleration of the load element  2  is denoted by α.
 
 T   2   =J   R ·α  (2)
 
In this formula, J R  denotes an inertia value of the load element  2 .
 
     The load element  2  starts moving when the following condition is satisfied.
 
 T   1   =T   2   (3)
 
Therefore, the position deviation Δθ required to generate the torque T 1  that makes the load element  2  move is expressed by the following formula, which is derived from Formulas (1) and (2).
 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     As described later, according to the present invention, a control command, which is a combination of a position command and an manipulated variable that corresponds to the position deviation Δθ described above, is used to control an inertial system. Therefore, a torque sufficient to make the load element follow the position command is applied to the load element to suppress the vibration of the load element. The present invention is based on the physical principle described above. 
       FIG. 2  is a block diagram showing a typical control model for a two-inertia system. This model includes a torque transmission element  111  having a stiffness coefficient of K 2 , a load machine  112  having an inertia value of J R2 , and a double integrator  113 . In  FIG. 2 , θ L2  denotes a position command, θ R2  denotes the position of the load machine  112 , and s denotes the Laplace operator. 
     A transfer function for the model is expressed as follows. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
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     From the Formula (5), the following Formula (6), which represents the relationship between the position command θ L2  and the position θ R2  of the load machine  112 , is derived. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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                         θ 
                         
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                   6 
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     The second-order differential term in the first term of the right-hand side of the Formula (6), shown below, represents the acceleration of the load machine  112 . Thus, it can be seen that the position deviation Δθ expressed by the Formula (4) and the first term of the right-hand side of the Formula (6) are equivalent to each other. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
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                       2 
                     
                     
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                     θ 
                     
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                   7 
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     That is, Formula (6) shows that the position θ R2  of the load machine  112  is delayed from the position command θ L2  by the position deviation Δθ expressed by Formula (4). Therefore, if the position deviation Δθ expressed by Formula (4) is added to the position command θ L2 , or in other words, if the rotational motive power generator is activated Δθ earlier than in the case in which the position command θ L2  is used by itself, the position θ R2  of the load machine  112  can follow the position command θ L2 . 
       FIG. 3  is a block diagram showing a control model for a two-inertia system based on the principle described above. In this block diagram, a torque transmission element  11 , a load machine  12 , and a double integrator  13  correspond to the torque transmission element  111 , the load machine  112 , and the double integrator  113  shown in  FIG. 2 , respectively. However, in this block diagram, the torque transmission element  11  has a stiffness coefficient of K 1 , the load machine  12  has an inertia value of J R1 , the position command is denoted by θ L1 , and the position of the load machine  12  is denoted by θ R1 . 
     In the control model, a vibration suppression control gain  14  is intended to generate a vibration suppression control variable  15  and is set according to the following Formula (8). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     J 
                     
                       R 
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                     K 
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                   8 
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     The vibration suppression control gain  14  corresponds to J R /K in the right-hand side of the Formula (4), and an acceleration command  20  corresponds to the acceleration α in the same formula. Therefore, the vibration suppression control variable  15  corresponds to the position deviation Δθ in Formula (4). 
     The vibration suppression control variable  15  is added to the position command θ L1  as feed-forward information. Therefore, with the control model shown in  FIG. 3 , it suppresses the delay (Δθ) of the position θ R1  of the load machine  12  with respect to the position command θ L1  and can be improved the ability of following of the load machine  12  with respect to position command θ L1 . The improvement in the ability of following, as a result, leads to suppress the vibration of the load machine  12 . 
     In the two-inertia system such as that shown in  FIG. 1 , an anti-resonance frequency occurs. The anti-resonance frequency ω R  is determined by the stiffness coefficient K of the torque transmission element and the inertia value J R  of the load machine, as expressed by the following Formula (9). 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     ω 
                     R 
                   
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     In the control model shown in  FIG. 3 , the right-hand side of Formula (9) equals to the inverse of the square root of the vibration suppression control gain  14  expressed by Formula (8). Therefore, the vibration suppression control gain  14  described above is expressed by using the anti-resonance frequency ω R  as follows. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
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                     ω 
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     The Formula (10) means that the vibration suppression control according to the present invention can be achieved based on a single parameter, the anti-resonance frequency ω R . 
     As described above, the vibration suppression control based on the control model shown in  FIG. 3  involves using the vibration suppression control variable  15  as one of manipulated variable used to suppress the delay of the motion of the load machine  12 . That is, the vibration suppression control greatly differs from typical vibration suppression control methods, which use filter means to round operation commands. Therefore, the load machine  12  can quickly respond to the position command θ L1 . 
       FIGS. 4 and 5  show results of simulations performed using the control models shown in  FIGS. 2 and 3 , respectively. In  FIGS. 4 and 5 , the solid line a indicates variation in the position command θ L , the alternate long and short dash line b indicates a variation in the position of the motive power generator responsive to the variation of the position command θ L , and the dotted line c indicates a variation in the position θ R  of the load machine in response to the variation in the position command θ L .  FIG. 6  is an enlarged view specifically showing a rising period during the variation of the position of the motive power generator shown in  FIG. 5 . In  FIGS. 4 to 6 , to facilitate understanding of the motion of the motive power generator and the load machine, appropriate offsets are added to the actual simulation results for the motive power generator and the load machine. 
     The simulations were performed under the following operational conditions. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
             
               
                   
                 TABLE 1 
               
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 Operating distance 
                 D [rad] 
                 62.8 
               
               
                   
                 Operating velocity 
                 V [rad/sec] 
                 62.8 
               
               
                   
                 Acceleration time 
                 t A  [msec] 
                 400 
               
               
                   
                 Load inertia 
                 J R  [kgm 2 ] 
                 5.6 * 10 −3   
               
               
                   
                 Stiffness coefficient 
                 K [Nm/rad] 
                 0.5 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     Under the operational conditions described in the above table, the vibration suppression control variable  15  (see  FIG. 3 ) required for vibration suppression control is expressed as follows.
 
 θ L1 =1.785[rad]  (11)
 
     The control model shown in  FIG. 2  performs no vibration suppression control. Therefore, as is apparent from  FIG. 4 , the position θ R2  of the load machine  112  is delayed with respect to the position command θ L2 . As a result, the load machine  112  undergoes a resonance caused by the delay and vibrates. 
     However, the model shown in  FIG. 3  performs the vibration suppression control using the vibration suppression control variable  15 . Therefore, as shown in  FIG. 5 , the position θ R1  of the load machine  12  follows the position command θ L1 . Thus, the load machine  12  does not vibrate, and the position θ R1  of the load machine  12  is not delayed with respect to the position command θ L1 .  FIG. 6  shows that the vibration suppression control variable according to calculation is added to the position of the motive power generator  11 . 
       FIG. 7  is a block diagram showing a control apparatus that performs the vibration suppression control described above according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The control apparatus comprises a command output section  30 , a command generating section  31 , a gain section  32 , an adder  33 , a control section  34 , a power converting section  35 , and a rotation detector  36 . A motive power generator  37  and a load machine  38 , which are to be controlled, are coupled via a torque transmission element  39  to form a two-inertia system. 
     In the control apparatus, the command output section  30  is separated from a control unit  50 , which includes the elements  31  to  35 . It outputs a position command  40  composed of a pulse sequence. 
     The position command  40  composed of a pulse sequence contains an acceleration component. Thus, the command generating section  31  estimates an acceleration command  41  based on a variation in frequency of the input of position command. In addition, the command generating section  31  estimates a position command  42  from the estimated acceleration command  41 . The estimated acceleration command  41  and the estimated position command  42  are formed from the position command  40  composed of a pulse sequence and, therefore, are in phase with each other. The estimated acceleration command  41  corresponds to the acceleration command  20  shown in  FIG. 3 , and the estimated position command  42  corresponds to the position command θ L1  shown in  FIG. 3 . 
       FIG. 8  is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the command generating section  31 . The command generating section  31  shown in this drawing has a fourth-order low pass filter. However, the present invention is not limited to the configuration shown in this drawing. Any configuration or a filter of any order can be used, as long as the same function is achieved. The command generating section  31  is also configured to estimate a velocity command  45 . As required, the estimated velocity command  45  is supplied to the control section  34  as information used in speed feed-forward control, for example. 
     Referring to  FIG. 9 , the solid line a indicates an acceleration command that is theoretically determined, and the dotted line b indicates the estimated acceleration command  41  output from the command generating section  31  shown in  FIG. 8 . As is apparent from  FIG. 9 , the estimated acceleration command  41  substantially agrees with the theoretically determined acceleration. This means that the acceleration information estimated by the command generating section  31  as the acceleration information required for the vibration suppression control according to the present invention (the estimated acceleration command  41 ) can be used without problems. 
     The gain section  32  shown in  FIG. 7  multiplies the estimated acceleration command  41  output from the command generating section  31  by a predetermined gain, that is, the vibration suppression control gain expressed by Formula (8) or (10) to form a vibration suppression control variable  43 , which corresponds to the vibration suppression control variable  15  shown in  FIG. 3 . 
     The estimated position command  42  output from the command generating section  31  is supplied to one input of the adder  33 , and the vibration suppression control variable  43  that is output from the gain section  32  is supplied to the other input of the adder  33  as feed-forward control information. The adder  33  sums the estimated position command  42  and the vibration suppression control variable  43  to form a vibration suppression control command  44  and outputs the vibration suppression control command  44  to the control section  34 . 
     When the motive power generator  37  is an electric motor, for example, the control section  34  typically performs both position control and speed control. That is, the control section  34  compares the position of the motive power generator (electric motor)  37  detected by the rotation detector  36  with the vibration suppression control command  44  and forms a velocity command corresponding to the position deviation between the two. Then, the control section  34  compares the speed of the motive power generator  37  calculated based on the output of the rotation detector  36  with the velocity command and outputs a torque command corresponding to the velocity deviation between the two to the power converting section  35 . 
     The control section  34  performs a proportional (P) processing on the position deviation and a proportional integral (PI) processing on the velocity deviation. 
     When the motive power generator  37  is an electric motor, the power converting section  35  can be composed of a software element and a hardware element. The software element performs a modification processing, such as pulse width modulation (PWM) and/or pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), on the torque command output from the control section  34  to generate a modulated signal corresponding to the torque command. On the other hand, the hardware element uses the modulated signal to make a switch element, such as an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) or a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), conduct a switch operation, thereby adjusting the voltage applied to the motive power generator  37 . 
     The control apparatus according to the present invention configured as described above performs vibration suppression control based on the vibration suppression control variable  43 , because the vibration suppression control variable  43  output from the gain section  32  is supplied to the estimated position command  42  as feed-forward information. As a result, the load machine  38  quickly responds to the estimated position command  42 , and the vibration of the load machine  38  is effectively suppressed. 
     As shown by the Formula (10), the vibration suppression control gain in the gain section  32  is defined as the square of the inverse of the anti-resonance frequency ω R  of the two-inertia system including the motive power generator  37 , the load machine  38  and the torque transmission element  39 . Therefore, the vibration suppression control gain can be treated as a constant parameter. Therefore, the gain can be set based on the anti-resonance frequency ω R  of the two-inertia system used. In this case, the gain section  32  can perform the calculation of the Formula (10) for determining the gain. 
     In addition, as is apparent from Formula (8), the gain is defined by the stiffness coefficient K 1  of the torque transmission element  39  and the inertia value J R1  of the load machine  38 , and therefore, it can be determined from the stiffness coefficient K 1  and the inertia value J R1 . In this case, the gain section  32  can perform the calculation of Formula (8) for determining the gain. 
     The gain section  32  has a way to adjust gain using a device, such as a variable resistor. This can be used to set the gain at an optimum value by operating the device for adjusting the gain while checking the vibration of the load machine  38 . 
     The gain can be automatically set by using a learning function, for example. In this case, the gain is set to minimize the vibration of the load machine  38  by using an appropriate learning rule. 
     If the feed-forward control (vibration suppression control) using the vibration suppression control variable  43  is not performed, the velocity of the load machine  38  exhibits a behavior shown in  FIG. 10  after the operation of the motive power generator  37  is terminated. That is, even after the operation of the motive power generator  37  is terminated, the load machine  38  keeps moving while vibrating. 
     However, if the vibration suppression control described above is performed, as shown in  FIG. 11 , the load machine  38  quickly stops without substantial vibration after the operation of the motive power generator  37  is terminated. 
     In the first embodiment described above and embodiments shown in  FIGS. 13 and 15  described later, the position command  40  output from the command output section  30  is composed of a pulse sequence. However, the position command  40  output from the command output section  30  can be composed of analog signals. In this case, the command generating section  31  performs a calculation for estimating the acceleration command  41  and the position command  42  in phase with each other from the analog position command  40 . 
       FIG. 12  shows a control apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The control apparatus according to the second embodiment has a command generating section  31 ′ that directly generates an acceleration command  41 ′ and a position command  42 ′ in phase with each other. The command generating section  31 ′ stores the acceleration command  41 ′ and the position command  42 ′ in phase with each other in a built-in storage device, for example, and reads out and outputs the acceleration command  41 ′ and the position command  42 ′ as required. 
     The control apparatus according to this embodiment does not require the command output section  30  show in  FIG. 7  because the command generating section  31 ′ in the control unit  50  has the function described above. Therefore, the configuration is simplified, and wiring between the command output section  30  and the control unit  50 , which is necessary in the first embodiment, is omitted. 
     To effectively suppress the vibration of the load machine  38 , it is desirable to set the vibration suppression control gain defined based on the relationships expressed by Formulas (8) and (9) as accurately as possible. 
     This is because the motion of the inertial system abruptly changes when the acceleration changes, and therefore, if the vibration suppression control gain is set with low accuracy, there is a possibility that the excitation force increases and enhances the vibration of the load machine  38 , which is undesirable. If the vibration is increased in this way, noise is generated, and the load on the load machine  38  increases. 
       FIG. 13  shows a control apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention, which is configured taking the possibility described above into consideration. The control apparatus according to this embodiment has the configuration of the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 7  additionally provided with an excitation force suppressing section  46  between the command output section  30  and the command generating section  31 . 
     The excitation force suppressing section  46  is composed of a filter element, such as a low pass filter and a notch filter. Therefore, the excitation force suppressing section  46  functions to suppress an abrupt change component (a jerk component) of the position command  40  which is composed of a pulse sequence output from the command output section  30 . 
     As described above, if the accuracy of the vibration suppression control gain used in the gain section  32  is low, there is a possibility that the excitation force will increase and increase the vibration of the load machine  38  when the acceleration changes. However, the excitation force suppressing section  46  functions to suppress an abrupt acceleration change as described above and therefore prevents the excitation force from increasing even if the accuracy of the vibration suppression control gain is low. 
     However, when only the effect of the excitation force suppressing section  46  is used for vibration suppression control, the motion of the inertial system to be controlled is slowed, and therefore, positioning of the inertial system takes longer. 
     Thus, the control apparatus according to this embodiment, which performs both vibration suppression control based on the vibration suppression control operation quantity variable  43  and vibration suppression control using the excitation force suppressing section  46 , achieves a higher vibration suppression effect because defects of the vibration suppression controls are counterbalance for each other. Even when the motive power generator  37  cannot follow a command because of the operational conditions, the vibration of the inertial system can be suppressed to reduce noise and the load on the load machine  38 . 
     The excitation force suppressing section  46  used in this embodiment performs filtering of the position command  40  output from the command output section  30 . However, the excitation force suppressing section  46  can be replaced with a first excitation force suppressing section that performs filtering of the acceleration command  41  and a second excitation force suppressing section that performs filtering of the position command  42 . In this case, the first and second excitation force suppressing sections have the same frequency characteristics. 
       FIG. 14  shows a control apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention, which is the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 12  additionally provided with excitation force suppressing sections  47  and  48 . The excitation force suppressing section  47  is provided between an acceleration command output terminal of the command generating section  31 ′ and the gain section  32 , and the excitation force suppressing section  48  is provided between a position command output terminal of the command generating section  31 ′ and the adder  33 . 
     As with the excitation force suppressing section  46  shown in  FIG. 13 , the excitation force suppressing sections  47  and  48  are composed of a filter element, such as a low pass filter and a notch filter. Therefore, the excitation force suppressing sections  47  and  48  function to suppress an abrupt change component (a jerk component) of the acceleration command  41 ′ and the position command  42 ′ output from the command generating section  31 ′, respectively. 
     The control apparatus according to this embodiment has both the advantage of quick positioning of the inertial system, which is provided by the vibration suppression control variable, and the advantage of suppressing of abrupt motion of the inertial system at the time of acceleration change, which is provided by the excitation force suppressing sections  47  and  48 . Therefore, as with the control apparatus according to the third embodiment, the control apparatus according to this embodiment is highly effective in suppressing the vibration of the load machine  38 . 
     In the embodiments shown in  FIGS. 7 ,  12 ,  13  and  14 , the output of the rotation detector  36  is supplied to the control section  34  as feedback information. However, the feedback information is not essential for implementing the present invention. For example, a control apparatus having an open loop configuration shown in  FIG. 15 , which is formed by removing the rotation detector  36  from the control apparatus having the closed configuration shown in  FIG. 7 , has the vibration suppression effect equivalent to the control apparatus having the closed configuration. 
     The control apparatus according to the present invention can be effectively applied to control of an inertial system including a motive power generator and a driven mechanical element firmly connected to the motive power generator, such as a slider, a cylinder, and a rotary table. That is, the control apparatus according to the present invention can be applied to various mechanical apparatus (such as robots, machine tools, conveying machines, and semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses) having an inertial system including a motive power generator, a power transmission element, and a load machine. 
     The motive power generator included in the inertial system is not limited to an electric rotary machine or an electric translation machine. The present invention can be applied to cases in which the motive power generator is a non-electric motive power generator, such as a hydraulic pump and an internal combustion engine, without any problem. 
     In the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 7 , the command generating section  31 , the gain section  32 , the adder  33 , the control section  34 , and the power converting section  35  are integrated as the control unit  50 . However, the command generating section  31 , the gain section  32 , and the adder  33  can be integrated as a command generator unit, and the control section  34  and the power converting section  35  can be integrated as a control/drive unit. 
     Similarly, in the control apparatus shown in  FIG. 12 , the command generating section  31 ′, the gain section  32  and the adder  33  can be integrated as a command generator unit, and the control section  34  and the power converting section  35  can be integrated as a control/drive unit. For the control apparatus shown in  FIGS. 13 to 15 , the components can be unitized in the same manner. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
               
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                 1, 11, 111 
                 torque transmission element 
               
               
                  2 
                 load 
               
               
                 12, 112 
                 load machine 
               
               
                 13, 113 
                 double integrator 
               
               
                 14 
                 vibration suppression control gain 
               
               
                 15 
                 vibration suppression control variable 
               
               
                 30 
                 command output section 
               
               
                 31, 31′ 
                 command generating section 
               
               
                 32 
                 gain section 
               
               
                 33 
                 adder 
               
               
                 34 
                 control section 
               
               
                 35 
                 power converting section 
               
               
                 36 
                 rotation detector 
               
               
                 37 
                 motive power generator 
               
               
                 38 
                 load machine 
               
               
                 39 
                 torque transmission element 
               
               
                 40 
                 input pulse sequence 
               
               
                 41, 41′ 
                 acceleration command 
               
               
                 42, 42′ 
                 position command 
               
               
                 43 
                 vibration suppression control variable 
               
               
                 44 
                 control command 
               
               
                 45 
                 velocity command 
               
               
                 46, 47, 48 
                 excitation force suppressing section 
               
               
                 50 
                 control unit