Direct Data-Driven Control-Based Additive Feedforward Compensation for Fast and Precise Positioning Control*

In industrial positioning systems where rapid response and high-precision are crucial, minor model inaccuracies due to unknown dynamics and identification errors in controller design significantly impede achieving desired positioning accuracy. This paper introduces and evaluates a novel, direct data-driven control-based additive feedforward (FF) compensation method, aimed at enhancing precision in positioning while streamlining the design process. The purpose of this additive FF compensation is to attenuate undesirable error responses resulting from modeling errors in the existing model-based FF design. The proposed method enhances control performance by utilizing data-driven prediction of positioning response and optimizing the predicted response. Moreover, this work presents a newly developed design theory for the additive FF controller and highlights its design efficiency. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is substantiated through comprehensive experiments with a galvano scanner in printed circuit board laser drilling applications, demonstrating significant improvements in positioning accuracy and response time.