United States Patent 119) oy 4,282,468
Barker et al, s]__Aug. 4, 1981
[54] HIGH SPEED POSITION FEEDBACK AND
COMPARATOR SYSTEM
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
1171690 11/1969 United Kingdom s1s/smt
175] Inventors: ‘Thomas Barker, South Holland; Primary Examiner-—B. Dobeck
Andrew L. Russel, Jr, Bridgeview; 4rrorney, Agent, or Firm—Neuman, Williams, Anderson
Gary Brieaut, Onk Lawn, all of is "rece
‘Abert L. Van Wieren, Griffith, Ind
is ABSTRACT
[73] Assignee: Hyper-Loop, Inc., Bridgeview, Il, A positioning system is provided in which command
and feedback signal are processed to develop an analog
Peete error signal for application 0 a servo drive to postion
21] Appl soos a controlled element. The command signals are in the
form of pulses each of which corresponds to a certain
(22) Filed: Apr. 16, 1979 incremental distance of movement. The feedback sig-
nas are developed from phase shifts of alow frequency
[51] Int, cl -~u:vese GOSB 1/01 resolver signal, such phase shifts being proportional to
[52] US.c4 318/608; 318/603; movement of the element. Such feedback signals are
" 318/61 applied to a resolver digitizer circuit which develops a
[58} Field of Search 318/605, 571, 03, 608, train of resolver pulses in response to the phase shift
318/661 represented by each feedback signal. Each such re-
solver pulke corresponds to the same incremental dis
186) References Cited lance of movement as a command pulse and both the
Us La ENT DOCUMENTS) computor and error signal eu in whiny cums
3079522 2/1963 MeGarret . 318/162 lative errr in either direction i stored asa digital num-
3,490,017. 1/1970 Kolell 340/347 ber and is converted to an analog error signal of the
3558895 /I9TD Meee S1RLU/ST proper polarity. The system effects accurate positioning
se iyon : of an element while accommodating a large temporary
Roussos wisn Cater Bian x
SERS W/IsT Cute. SAMAK following eror and thereby allowing movements high
Dae ae Stereos Seeds in response to high command pulse frequencies.
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‘4,164,693 8/1979 Leenhouts vue 318/571 X 20 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures.
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