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Autotuning tool
09 October 2015
EasyTune from Aerotech is claimed to be the most advanced autotuning tool available in a commercial motion controller. Entirely data-driven, the algorithm largely mimics the process followed by an experienced controls engineer.
Many existing tuning techniques rely on basic model-fitting or "rules-of-thumb” that ignore machine resonances or nonlinear behavior, but EasyTune directly measures and compensates for those effects. It assumes no prior knowledge of the system properties, and begins with a system identification operation.
It continues with the development of a baseline stabilising controller followed by progressively more sophisticated compensation via loop-shaping procedures. The final controller has the highest bandwidth practical for that particular stage system.
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