Patent ID: 7460330

Claim:
A settling judgment method of judging settling to a target position in a positioning control device which controls a position of an object according to a position error between the target position and a current position, comprising: a step of computing a judgment value of the position error for each sample by a predetermined judgment formula; a first step of, by using a first judgment sample count and a first judgment slice value, judging whether a sample of which judgment value is less than the first judgment slice value continues for the first judgment sample count; a second step of, by using a second judgment sample count which is different from the first judgment sample count and a second judgment slice value which is different from the first judgment slice value, judging whether a sample of which judgment value is less than the second judgment slice value continues for the second judgment sample count; and a step of outputting OR of the judgment results of the first judgment step and the second judgment step as the settling judgment result.