Precision Motion Control focuses on enabling technologies for precision engineering - issues of direct importance to be addressed in the overall system design and realization: precision instrumentation and measurement, geometrical calibration and compensation, and motion control. It is a compilation of the most important results and publications from a major project that develops a state-of-the-art, high-speed, ultra-precision robotic system.

The second edition has been edited and rewritten throughout with the following particular areas being expanded or added: - piezoelectric actuators; - fine movement control; - gantry-stage control; - interpolation of quadrature encoder signals; - geometrical error modelling for single-, dual- and general-XY-axis stages.

By providing detailed experimental verifications of the material developed, a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject matter, accessible to a broad base of readers, ranging from academics to practitioners, is provided.

Shows the reader how to combine the fundamental disciplines of control and micro-, nanotechnology to form a sound underpinning for precision engineering systems Excellent single source of essential topics related to precision motion control which will tell readers all they need to know on the subject without recourse to scattered journal research papers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Precision Tracking Motion Control.- Automatic Tuning of Control Parameters.- Co-ordinated Motion Control of Gantry Systems.- Geometrical Error Compensation.- Electronic Interpolation Errors.- Vibration Monitoring and Control.- Other Engineering Aspects.