A feedforward control method comprising steps of: acquiring kinematic parameters of each joint of a robot based on inverse kinematics according to a pre-planned robot motion trajectory, and setting a center of a body of the robot as a floating base; determining a six-dimensional acceleration of a center of mass of each joint of the robot in a base coordinate system using a forward kinematics algorithm, based on the kinematic parameters of each joint of the robot, and converting the six-dimensional acceleration of the center of mass of each joint of the robot in the base coordinate system to a six-dimensional acceleration in a world coordinate system; and calculating a torque required by a motor of each joint of the robot using an inverse dynamic algorithm, and controlling the motors of corresponding joints of the robot.

A control assistance device implements assistance in order to adjust a coefficient for a plurality of filters provided to a servo control device. The control assistance device comprises: a resonance detection unit that detects a plurality of resonance points in frequency characteristics between an input/output gain and an input/output phase shift, of the servo control device, measured on the basis of an input signal and an output signal having varying frequencies; and a resonance evaluation unit that calculates the priority levels of the plurality of resonance points. The resonance evaluation unit calculates the priority level on the basis of a distance between a point (-1,0) or a point (k, 0) (where k is a value less than -1) on a real axis on a complex plane, and a resonance point on a Nyquist locus calculated from the frequency characteristics between the input/output gain and the input/output phase shift.

A servo control apparatus includes an actual machine frequency characteristic measurer that calculates a frequency characteristic of an actual machine from a motor input signal and an output of a detector, and a parameter adjuster that finds a solution for a parameter of a controller, which sets a difference, between an open loop characteristic, calculated from a calculation result of the actual machine frequency characteristic measurer and a frequency characteristic of the controller, and an ideal open loop characteristic, to be less than or equal to a predefined reference, and that applies the obtained parameter to the controller.

A multi-axis control adjustment apparatus includes adjustment axis selection circuitry configured to select a plurality of target axes among a plurality of axes each of which represents a combination of a motor and a motor control device configured to control the motor according to a control parameter of the motor control device, adjustment operation execution circuitry configured to perform adjustment operations in each of which the control parameter is adjusted with respect to each of the plurality of target axes, and first control parameter setting circuitry configured to change, according to the adjustment operations, timing at which the control parameter is set with respect to each of the plurality of target axes.

In some embodiments, a valve may include a core defining a first channel, a second channel, and a third channel. The core may be configured to rotate to at least a first position, a second position, and a third position. When the core is in the first position fluid flow may be facilitated in a first direction through the first channel and the third channel. When the core is in the second position fluid flow may be facilitated in a second direction through the third channel and the first channel. When the core is in the third position fluid flow may be facilitated in a third direction through the second channel. The valve may also include a housing having a first input port, a first output port, a second input port, and a second output port positioned on the housing. The core may be disposed within the housing.

The invention relates to a method for the closed-loop control of a proportional integral-type controller (2) in an instrumentation and control device (1) of a closed-loop control system (3), in particular a servovalve-actuator system, said controller (2) including a setpoint-weighting coefficient (β), said closed-loop control method comprising the consecutive steps of assigning (11) a unit value to the set-point weighting coefficient (β), optimizing (12) a closed-loop control of the controller (2) satisfying at least one predefined performance criterion, defining a characteristic tracking error (εTC) making it possible to respond to the performance constraints of the system to be closed-loop controlled, and assigning (132) a setpoint weighting coefficient (β) value, depending on the characteristic tracking error (εTC) and the closed-loop control of the controller (2).

An auxiliary power supply device supplies electric power to an encoder when supply of electric power of a control device is cut off, and includes: a backup power source for supplying backup electric power to the encoder when supply of electric power of the control device is cut off; an auxiliary power source for supplying electric power to the encoder when the backup power source is removed; a remaining capacity determination unit for determining the remaining capacity of the auxiliary power source; a display unit for displaying an indication that the remaining capacity is insufficient when the remaining capacity determined by the remaining capacity determination unit is lower than a threshold; and a switch for actuating the display unit.

An object is to provide a servo controller which constantly optimizes parameters according to the state of a machine. A servo controller for controlling an electric motor which drives the axis of an industrial machine includes: a state value derivation unit which derives, from an operation program and/or operation plan information of the industrial machine, the chronological or event-sequential data of the state value of the electric motor or a driven member that is operated with the electric motor; and a parameter change unit which changes at least one parameter of a velocity gain, a position gain, a feedforward gain, a filter frequency and an acceleration/deceleration time constant after interpolation based on the chronological or event-sequential data derived in the state value derivation unit either chronologically or event-sequentially.

A control device includes a program analysis unit, a program execution unit, and a servo control unit. The program analysis unit includes a machining/non-machining state determination unit that determines whether a target block of a machining program is in a machining state or a non-machining state, a switching necessity determination unit that determines whether it is necessary to perform switching of a control target axis of the target block and/or switching of an electrical current control cycle, and an information adding unit that adds a switching request and information after switching to an analysis result of the target block. The program execution unit includes a switching execution unit that executes the switching of the control target axis of the target block and/or the switching of the electrical current control cycle. The servo control unit controls the control target axis at the switched electrical current control cycle.

A system determining whether the feed shafts are normal or abnormal, the system including: a command generation unit that moves the feed shafts in a forward direction at a predetermined speed from a lower limit value to an upper limit value of a range of feeding movement by the numerical controller; and a feed shaft abnormality determination unit that monitors a drive torque command during the movement of the feed shafts in the forward direction by the command generation unit, compares a monitoring result during the movement in the forward direction with a normal value of the drive torque command, determines that abnormality occurs when the drive torque command deviates from the normal value, and outputs the determination result.