Design Support for Motion Control Systems: Application to the Philips Fast Component Mounter

Abstract

In (Coelingh, 2000) tools have been developed that support mechatronic design of controllers for electromechanical motion systems. In order to evaluate and illustrate application of some of these tools, an industrial motion system, the placement module of the Philips Fast Component Mounter, is considered. The presented design support helps the designer to more easily gain insight in the design problem, without requiring advanced control engineering skills, while indicating whether performance and robustness demands of the final design are being satisfied. Important consequences are that better-founded design decisions can be made and that the required overall development time decreases significantly