Study on a Surface-Motor Driven Precise Positioning System

Abstract

A newly developed precise positioning system incorporating a surface-motor (SFM) drive unit is presented and its advantageous features, operation principles, electromagnetic drive force design, and some experimental results are described. The stage of our “SFM positioning system” is levitated on a base plate by three air bearing pads; being driven by three brushless-type linear DC motors in three degrees of freedom. The guidance and positioning of the stage’s planar motion are achieved via the simultaneous operation of three identical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) servo-control systems, each having a laser-interferometer position feedback loop. The electromagnetically produced drive forces are analyzed by employing magnetic permeability theory, with good correspondence being obtained between calculated and experimental results. Additionally discussed is the closed-loop dynamic behavior, including the motion caused by three axis-interference. Evaluations of experimental tests indicate that a positioning resolution of 10–20 nm and yaw angle accuracy less than ±0.08 µrad are successfully achieved for an x-y travel range of 10 mm.

Control of an XY Nano-Positioning Table for a Compact Nano-Machine Tool

“…On the other hand, single-movingpart with multiple-degree-of-freedom systems have been researched due to its mechanical simplicity and feasibility for compactness. Still, coupling among movement of axes are observed in most of these researches and methods to circumvent this problem is always left in charge of the controller: decoupling the movement by compensating the control signals as did Tomita (1998), or by considering the coupling interference among axes as external disturbances (8), (9) . The mechanical design of the XY table in this paper was researched in Shinno et al (2004), where also a preliminary controller version was designed.…”

Integrated multidimensional positioner for precision manufacturing

“…Some of these systems utilize planar motors (or surface motors in some literature [8]). Another planar motion system, which led to the SVGL Micrascan system, was designed by Buckley et al [9].…”