Head-disk spacing variation suppression via active flying height control

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 897-901

  Liu, Xinqun ^a   Li, Amei ^a   Clegg, Warwick ^a   Jenkins, David F L ^a   Davey, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Flying height; Hard disk drive; Head disk spacing; Spacing variation suppression

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HARD DISK STORAGE; SERVOMECHANISMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACTIVE FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL; HEAD DISK SPACING; THERMAL SIGNAL DETECTION METHOD;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036825965     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.807790     Document Type: Article

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