Active-passive hybrid piezoelectric actuators for high-precision hard disk drive servo systems

Kwong Wah Chan; Wei-Hsin Liao

doi:10.1117/12.658407

5 April 2006 Active-passive hybrid piezoelectric actuators for high-precision hard disk drive servo systems

Kwong Wah Chan, Wei-Hsin Liao

Proceedings Volume 6173, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems; 617303 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658407
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Positioning precision is crucial to today's increasingly high-speed, high-capacity, high data density, and miniaturized hard disk drives (HDDs). The demand for higher bandwidth servo systems that can quickly and precisely position the read/write head on a high track density becomes more pressing. Recently, the idea of applying dual-stage actuators to track servo systems has been studied. The push-pull piezoelectric actuated devices have been developed as micro actuators for fine and fast positioning, while the voice coil motor functions as a large but coarse seeking. However, the current dual-stage actuator design uses piezoelectric patches only without passive damping. In this paper, we propose a dual-stage servo system using enhanced active-passive hybrid piezoelectric actuators. The proposed actuators will improve the existing dual-stage actuators for higher precision and shock resistance, due to the incorporation of passive damping in the design. We aim to develop this hybrid servo system not only to increase speed of track seeking but also to improve precision of track following servos in HDDs. New piezoelectrically actuated suspensions with passive damping have been designed and fabricated. In order to evaluate positioning and track following performances for the dual-stage track servo systems, experimental efforts are carried out to implement the synthesized active-passive suspension structure with enhanced piezoelectric actuators using a composite nonlinear feedback controller.

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Kwong Wah Chan and Wei-Hsin Liao "Active-passive hybrid piezoelectric actuators for high-precision hard disk drive servo systems", Proc. SPIE 6173, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, 617303 (5 April 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658407

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