Air-bearing linear actuator for highly precise tracking

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 812-818

  Mori, Shigeki ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^b   Obinata, Goro ^c   Ouchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a Akita Research Institute of Advanced Technology   (Japan)

^b Konica Corporation   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linear actuator; Linear tracking; Position control; Precise positioning; Servo writing; Track following

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HARD DISK STORAGE; MOTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POSITION CONTROL; SERVOMECHANISMS;

AIR-BEARING LINEAR ACTUATOR; SERVO WRITING;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0345381879     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808930     Document Type: Article

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