Precision Motion Control
Subtitle: Design and Implementation
By: by Tan Kok Kiong, Lee Tong Heng, Dou Huifang, Huang Sunan
Contributors: Heng, Lee Tong; Huifang, Dou; Sunan, Huang
Series: Advances in Industrial Control; Advances in industrial control
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781447136934; 9781447136910
Subjects: Engineering
Description: Precision manufacturing is a development that has been gathering momentum over the last century and accelerating over the last 25 years in terms of research, development, and application to product innovation. The driving force in this development arises from requirements for much higher performance of products, higher reliability, longer life, lower cost, and miniaturization. This development is widely known as precision engineering and, today, it is generally defined as manufacturing to tolerances which are better than one part in 105. Applications are abound and can be found in various semiconductor processes (e.g., lithography, wafer probing, inspection), Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) and precision metrology systems (e.g., Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM)), and robot/machine tools to carry out micro-assembly (e.g., MEMS) and delicate short wavelength laser processes. As an enabling technology for precision engineering, precision instrumentation and measurement, geometrical calibration and compensation, and motion control are directly important issues to be addressed in the overall system design and realization. This book is focused on these aspects of precision engineering. It is a compilation of the major results and publications from a major project which develop a state-of-the-art high-speed, ultra-precision robotic system. A comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject matter is provided in a manner that is amenable to a broad base of readers, ranging from the academics to the practitioners, by providing detailed experimental verifications of the developed materials.
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Table of contents: title: Overview of Nanotechnology; title: Precision Tracking Control; title: Automatic Tuning of Control Parameters; title: Co-ordinated Motion Control of Gantry Systems; title: Geometrical Error Compensation; title: Electronic Interpolation Errors; title: Vibration Monitoring and Control; title: Other Engineering Aspects; title: Appendix A. Laser Calibration Optics, Accessories and Set-up.