Compensation for position-dependent mechanical resonances in head-positioning control of hard disk drives

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. S151-S158
Author(s):  
Shota Yabui ◽  
Takenori Atsumi ◽  
Shigeo Nakamura
2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 2738-2743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takenori Atsumi ◽  
Shigeo Nakamura ◽  
Masaru Furukawa ◽  
Irizo Naniwa ◽  
Junguo Xu

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Atsumi ◽  
T. Arisaka ◽  
T. Shimizu ◽  
H. Masuda

Author(s):  
Zhi Chen ◽  
Prateek Shah ◽  
Roberto Horowitz

Abstract The recent rapid growth in the cloud storage industry has strongly increased the demand for high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs). Increasing the areal density brings new challenges to the high-accuracy head-positioning control in the next generation HDD development. Triple-stage-actuator (TSA) system is one of the emerging technologies that can achieve higher bandwidth than that of a dual-stage-actuator (DSA) system and improve the track-following performance. In this paper, we focus on the track-following controller design for TSA system with one voice coil motor (VCM) and two piezoelectric (PZT) actuators. Two types of mixed H2/Hinf synthesis methodologies based on model-based optimization and data-driven optimization are proposed to design the track-following controller for the TSA system. The TSA system can increase the bandwidth of the servo system and decrease the sensitivity to disturbances at the low-frequency range. While increasing the stroke limitation and the resonance frequency of the micro-actuator, the 3sigma the position error signals (PES) is reduced. The data-driven controller can achieve comparable head-positioning accuracy to the model-based controller when it converges to a local optimal solution. The simulation results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the TSA systems with a tertiary PZT actuator. We also analyze the effects of stroke limitations and resonance frequencies of the second/third-stage PZT actuators on the head-positioning accuracy. The results might provide a guideline for the TSA mechanical design.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takenori Atsumi ◽  

A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is an inexpensive mass-production product, but the head-positioning control systems of HDDs require nanometer-scale positioning performance. Therefore, we have studied head-positioning control systems of HDD using designs which integrate mechanical and control systems to improve their control performance while curbing cost increases. In this paper, we introduce “disturbance suppression in high-frequency ranges through phase stable design for high-order mechanical resonances” and “high servo-bandwidth design through mode shape design of mechanical resonance” as examples of techniques that have been developed and are easily applied to products.


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