In described examples of methods and control systems to control a position and/or velocity of a machine, control circuitry is coupled to receive and dither a control signal, and to compute a control output value according to the dithered control signal and a control function. An inverter is coupled to the control circuitry, to control the position and/or velocity according to the control output value.

When measuring the position of a workpiece fixed to a table of a machine tool: rotary feed axes of the machine tool are pivoted such that an upper surface of the table faces in the direction of a line of sight of a camera, and an image of the workpiece is captured; the rotary feed axes are pivoted such that a side surface of the table faces in the direction of the line of sight of an image capturing device, and an image of the workpiece is captured; and the position of the workpiece is measured on the machine tool on the basis of the captured images.

In order to stabilize control of a driving section, a robot control apparatus includes a control section that acquires a driving position of the driving section that drives a robot and an operation force that is a force operating on the robot, and performs first control of the driving section based on the driving position and second control of the driving section based on the operation force; and a changing section that changes a size of servo stiffness of the robot that is realized by the control of the control section.

A control apparatus and the like may include a time allocation setting unit that sets a time allocation for steps in the total driving time, and an operation value calculation unit that calculates minimum operation values for the times set by the time allocation setting unit, and the time allocation setting unit sets the time allocation of the steps in the total driving time such that the difference between the minimum operation values of the steps falls within a predetermined range.

An anomaly diagnosis apparatus includes a command generation unit that generates a command value to specify the operation of a motor or a drive machine, a drive control unit that performs feedback control on the motor based on a control gain so that the operation of the motor or the drive machine follows the command value, a data switching unit that switches selected time-series data by selecting data from time-series data indicating the state of the motor or the drive machine, based on the result of a comparison between a control bandwidth determined from the control gain and a threshold determined from the drive machine, and an anomaly determination unit that determines an anomalous state of the motor or the drive machine, based on the selected time-series data.