Precision Motion Control of a Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Based on Linear Optical-Ruler Sensor and Hall Sensor

Sensors (Basel). 2018 Oct 7;18(10):3345. doi: 10.3390/s18103345.

Abstract

The linear optical-ruler sensor with 1um precision mounted in the linear permanent magnet synchronous machine (LPMSM) is used for measuring the mover position of LPMSM in order to enhance the precision of a measured mover position. Due to nonlinear friction and uncertainty effects, linear controllers are very hard to achieve good mover positioning of LPMSM. The proposed adaptive amended Elman neural network backstepping (AAENNB) control system is adopted for controlling the LPMSM drive system to bring about the mover positioning precision of LPMSM. Firstly, a backstepping scheme is posed for controlling the tracing motion of the LPMSM drive system. The proposed backstepping control system, which is applied in the mover position of the LPMSM drive system, possesses better dynamic control performance and robustness to uncertainties for the tracing trajectories. Because of the LPMSM with nonlinear and time-varying dynamic characteristics, an adaptive amended Elman neural network uncertainty observer (AAENNUO) is posed to estimate the required lumped uncertainty. According to the Lyapunov stability theorem, on-line parameter training methodology of the amended Elman neural network (AENN) can be derived by use of adaptive law. The error estimated law is proposed to compensate for the observed error induced by the AENN with adaptive law. Furthermore, to help improve convergence and to obtain better learning performance, the mended particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is utilized for adjusting the varied learning rate of the weights in the AENN. At last, these experimental results, which show better performance, are verified by the proposed control system.

Keywords: Elman neural network; Lyapunov stability; backstepping control; linear permanent magnet synchronous machine.