Digital servo control system including sample integrity tester f

Details Digital servo control system including sample integrity tester f Digital servo control system including sample integrity tester f

1997-11-25

1999-06-22

Psitos, Aristotelis M.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Controlling the head

360 7809, G11B 5596

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059148306

ABSTRACT:
In a digital servo control system especially suitable for use in disk drives, a sample integrity tester is provided. Sample measurements, indicating the position of a disk drive's read/write head relative to tracks of information on a recording medium, are subject to error due to noise. The sample integrity tester 2410, 2420, 2430 effectively filters out noise-corrupted measurements and thus prevents clearly erroneous measurements from contaminating calculations performed within the servo controller's control loop. If a measured position signal falls outside a given window (indicating a possible spurious position value has been read), an observer's predicted value is used rather than the spurious value. Using the predicted value allows the loop to operate in a "freewheel" (open-loop) mode. A preferred implementation of the sample integrity tester involves a coarse window that is static, and a fine window that changes dynamically based on an effort signal.

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