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Advanced control of MEMS probing devices
Zhang, Xuemeng
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/26151
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- Title
- Advanced control of MEMS probing devices
- Author(s)
- Zhang, Xuemeng
- Issue Date
- 2011-08-25T22:16:24Z
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Salapaka, Srinivasa M.
- Department of Study
- Mechanical Sci & Engineering
- Discipline
- Mechanical Engineering
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- M.S.
- Degree Level
- Thesis
- Keyword(s)
- micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
- electrostatic comb drive
- nanopositioning
- system identification
- H∞ control.
- Abstract
- This work is aimed at developing a control-system theoretic approach for addressing certain performance issues that arise in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). In particular, it focuses on applications such as nano-positioning, where control design becomes necessary to meet high resolution, bandwidth, and reliability (robustness) demands especially when there is significant model uncertainty and instrumentation noise. In this article, a systematic control design from robust control approach is demonstrated on a micro probing device with electrically separated sensing combs and driving combs. The system is identified through experimental input-output data and the hardware is setup in such a way that the resulting model is a linear time-invariant model with appropriate choice of variables even when the the underlying constitutive laws are nonlinear. Controllers are developed based on PID and H∞ control design methodologies. Control algorithms from PID control and robust control have been implemented on dSpace digital processing platform. The implemented control (H∞) design demonstrates a significant (≈ 400%) improvement in the bandwidth, where the bandwidths from the closed-loop sensitivity and complementary-sensitivity functions respectively are 68 Hz and 74 Hz. A significant improvement in reliability and repeatability (robustness to uncertainties) as well as noise attenuation is also demonstrated through this design.
- Graduation Semester
- 2011-08
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26151
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2011 by Xuemeng Zhang. All rights reserved.
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