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WITH FRICTION
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CONTROL OF MACHINES
WITH FRICTION
by
Brian Armstrong-Helouvry
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Armstrong-Helouvry, Brian, 19S8-
Control of machines with friction / Brian Armstrong-Helouvry.
(The Kluwer international series in engineering and
p. cm. -
computer science. Robotlcs)
ISBN 978-1-4615-3972-8 (eBook)
II. Series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4613-6774-1
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-3972-8
1. Tribology. 2. Machinery-Design.
I. Title.
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CONTROL OF MACHINES
WITH FRICTION
Contents
Preface
1.
2.
Introduction
Friction in Machines
2.1. The Contemporary Model of Machine Friction
2.2. Boundary Lubricants: a Domain of Many Choices
2.3. Relaxation Oscillations
2.4. Friction Modeling in the Controls Literature
2.5. An Integrated Friction Model
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.
3.
Experiment Design
4.
5.
Repeatability
Break-Away Experiments
5.1. Experimental Issues in Measuring Break-Away Torque
5.2. Building the Compensation Table
6.
Friction as a Function of Velocity
6.1. Analysis of Variance in the Motion Friction Data
6.2. Friction at Low Velocities
6.3. Friction During Compliant Motion
6.4. The Dahl Effect
6.5. The Stribeck Effect
6.6. Temporal Effects in the Rise and Decay of Friction
6.7. Variance in Friction as Process Noise
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Analysis of Stick-Slip
7.1. Dimensional Analysis
7.2. Perturbation Analysis
7.3. The Impact of Static Friction Rising
as a Function of Dwell Time
Integral Control
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7.4.
8. Demonstrations of Friction Compensation
8.1. Open-Loop Motion of One Joint
8.2. Open-Loop Motion of Three Joints
8.3. Friction Compensated Force Control
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Suggestions Toward Friction Modeling and Compensation 141
9.1. Suggestions on Experimental Technique
9.2. Suggestions on Control
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9.3. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix A: Small Studies
Friction as a Function of Motor Angle
Joint 2 Motor Alone and Joint 2 Link Alone
Trials with Dither
Friction as a Function of Load
Creep
Effects that were not Observed
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Index
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Preface
It is my ambition in writing this book to bring tribology to the study
of control of machines with friction. Tribology, from the greek for study
is the discipline that concerns itself with friction, wear and
of rubbing,
lubrication. Tribology spans a great range of disciplines, from surface physics
to lubrication chemistry and engineering, and comprises investigators in
diverse specialities. The English language tribology literature now grows at
a rate of some 700 articles per year. But for all of this activity, in the three
years that I have been concerned with the control of machines with friction,
I have but once met a fellow controls engineer who was aware that the field
existed, this including many who were concerned with friction. In this vein I
must confess that, before undertaking these investigations, I too was unaware
that an active discipline of friction existed. The experience stands out as a
mark of the specialization of our time.
the central
is more often concerned with wear, with respect
Within tribology, experimental and theoretical understanding of friction
in lubricated machines is well developed. The controls engineer's interest
interest of the tribologist. The
is in dynamics, which is not
tribologist
to which
there has been enormous progress - witness the many mechanisms which
we buy today that are lubricated once only, and that at
the factory.
Though a secondary interest,
frictional dynamics are note forgotten by
In this monograph something over one hundred references to
tribology.
the tribology literature are considered and their implications for control
addressed.
in the early years
investigation, when the dynamics could be used as a tool
of tribological
to explore basic interface phenomena.
Since the 1960's there has been
in part because more powerful means have been
less interest in dynamics,
developed to explore interface physics, and in part because, at least within
some quarters of tribology,
the dynamics of friction in lubricated machines
was considered to be a solved problem. No problem is ever completely solved
and, as a half score of recent references attest, interest in dynamics is rising
again. This time with predictive models of mechanism friction; models based
on three decades of progress in surface and lubricant physics.
Interest
in frictional dynamics was greatest
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