Abstract: An apparatus for controlling conveyance between rollers includes: a tension-control-amount-detector; a speed-shaft-speed-controller; a tension-shaft-speed-controller; a synchronous-speed-command-generation-unit synchronizing the speed-shaft speed command with a tension-shaft reference speed command; a tension-control-calculation-unit outputting a tension-control correction value based on proportional compensation based on a proportional gain, and integral compensation based on an integral gain; an adjustment-execution-command-generation-unit outputting an adjustment execution command during an automatic adjustment period; a binary-output-unit outputting one of positive and negative values of the additional-value amplitude as an additional value in adjustment during the automatic adjustment period; a tension-shaft-speed-command-generation-unit outputting a tension-shaft speed command based on the tension-shaft reference speed command, the tension-control correction value and the additional value in adjustment;

Abstract: Provided is a delivery control device, a data delivery system, and a delivery control method that enable a simultaneous data delivery to a number of reception terminals by increasing the number of reception terminals simultaneously connecting to a router. The delivery control device 100 includes an IP address-MAC address record unit 105 that associates an IP address with a plurality of MAC addresses and holds the IP address and the MAC addresses, and a transmission unit 101, 102 that specifies a destination MAC address to transmit a packet. The transmission unit 101, 102 transmits a packet addressed to a predetermined IP address to all the MAC addresses that have been associated with the IP address in the IP address-MAC address record unit 105.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first radio equipment that transmits first data using a first radio wave; a data transmitter that transmits a second radio wave, the second radio wave causing a disturbance on the first radio wave according to second data to be transmitted; and a second radio equipment that demodulates the first data transmitted from the first radio equipment, and demodulates the second data transmitted from the data transmitter using a variation in a bit error rate of communication between the first radio equipment and the second radio equipment, wherein the data transmitter includes a first antenna that receives the first radio wave; an input amplifier that amplifies a signal corresponding to the first radio wave received by the first antenna; and an oscillator that is supplied with an output from the input amplifier, and oscillates at the same frequency as that of the first radio wave.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first radio equipment that transmits first data using a first radio wave; a data transmitter that transmits a second radio wave, the second radio wave causing a disturbance on the first radio wave according to second data to be transmitted; and a second radio equipment that demodulates the first data transmitted from the first radio equipment, and demodulates the second data transmitted from the data transmitter using a variation in a bit error rate of communication between the first radio equipment and the second radio equipment, wherein the data transmitter includes a first antenna that receives the first radio wave; an input amplifier that amplifies a signal corresponding to the first radio wave received by the first antenna; and an oscillator that is supplied with an output from the input amplifier, and oscillates at the same frequency as that of the first radio wave.

Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment includes a first radio equipment that transmits first data using first radio waves, a data transmitter that transmits a second radio wave for causing a disturbance on the first radio wave according to second data, and a second radio equipment that modulates the first data transmitted from the first radio equipment, and modulates the second data transmitted from the data transmitter using a variation in a bit error rate of communication between the first radio equipment and the second radio equipment. The data transmitter includes an amplifier that amplifies a signal corresponding to the first radio wave received by a first antenna, and a feedback element that feedbacks a signal from an output node of the amplifier to an input node of the amplifier, and forms a feedback loop.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a reference model unit configured to generate a model output, a feedback unit configured to generate a feedback, and an adder configured to add up the model input and the feedback and generate a control input to the controlled object. The reference model unit includes a storing unit configured to retain, as a vector, a present value of the target value and one or a plurality of past values of the target value, a numerical model configured to simulate a characteristic of the controlled object and generate the model output and a state variable on the basis of the model input, a model controller configured to generate the model input and a controller determining unit configured to determine the model controller.

Abstract: Provided are a steering control device and a steering control method therefor, which reduce a steering feeling of discomfort due to a pulsed change (short abrupt change) in steering assist torque caused when control such as steering wheel return control is turned on/off, and which acquire a sufficient control effect even when high control response is required, by reducing a fluctuation in steering assist torque caused when one steering assist torque is selected from two or more steering assist torques by low-pass filtering, and by correcting the low-pass filtering depending on a change amount of the selected steering assist torque.

Abstract: Provided are a steering control device and the like, including the steps of: calculating a steering assist torque to be applied to an actuator for applying the steering assist torque to a steering system of a vehicle in order to improve return characteristics of the steering system; determining a steering state of a driver; correcting the steering assist torque depending on a result of the steering state determination; and controlling the actuator depending on the corrected steering assist torque, in which the step of determining a steering state of a driver includes determining the steering state of the driver based on a combination of at least two of the following: a manually-operating steering state determination; an abrupt steering wheel return determination; a high-acceleration steering wheel return determination; a manual return steering determination; and an additional-steering determination.

Abstract: A servo controller is provided. The servo controller includes a reference model unit which inputs a reference to generate a model output and a model input; a feedback control unit which generates a feedback input so that a control output of a plant follows the model output; and an adder which adds the model input and the feedback input. The reference model unit includes a mathematical model which simulates characteristics of the plant, and generates the model output and a state variable from the model input; a model input memory which outputs a past model input; a model controller which inputs the reference, the state variable, and the past model input to generate the model input; and a model controller determining unit which determines the model controller based on the reference, the state variable, and the past model input.

Abstract: A reference model unit calculates a model position, with which a model of a controlled object follows a position command, and a model torque for the model of the controlled object to operate to coincide with the model position. A gain changing unit changes, during the operation of the controlled object, at least a value of one control gain of first-order and second-order control gains used for calculation of a variable compensation value output to an integral compensator by a variable-compensation calculating unit based on at least one of the model position, a position detection value, and a torque command output to the controlled object by a torque adder, and reflects the value on calculation of the variable compensation value.

Abstract: A motor control device includes an operation determination unit that determines whether a motor is in an operating state or in a stopped state based on an operation command signal or an operation signal and an amplitude estimation unit that, based on a determination result of the operation determination unit, sequentially estimates a vibration amplitude value from a control state quantity of a feedback control unit or a current control unit separately for a case where the motor is operated and a case where the motor is stopped and outputs the vibration amplitude value. A function of outputting an amplitude of a high-frequency vibration that occurs in a mechanical device including a control system as information useful for estimating an occurrence factor of the vibration is provided.

Abstract: A load characteristic estimating apparatus for a driving machine includes an action-command generating unit for generating an action command for a position and speed of a driving machine, a driving-force-command generating unit for generating a driving force command to cause an action of the driving machine to follow the action command, a driving unit for generating driving force corresponding to the driving force command and drive the driving machine, a sign determining unit for determining, based on driving speed of the driving machine, the state of the driving machine, a load-driving-force estimating unit for calculating, based on the driving force command, a load driving force signal, and a normal reverse-rotation-average calculating unit and a reverse-rotation-average calculating unit, configured to calculate a sequential average of the load driving force signal, respectively when the determination result is a normal and reverse rotation action.

Abstract: A motor control device that controls motion of a control target including a motor and a vibratable element includes a generating unit configured to generate, according to state information representing a state of the control target related to a vibration characteristic of the control target, a first parameter representing the vibration characteristic of the control target, a first calculating unit configured to calculate a second parameter corresponding to a temporal change amount of the first parameter generated by the generating unit, a second calculating unit configured to calculate, using a motion target value, the first parameter, and the second parameter, model torque such that the control target does not excite vibration, and a developing unit configured to develop, according to the model torque calculated by the second calculating unit, a torque command such that the motion of the control target follows the motion target value.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a feedback filter that has filter characteristics that a frequency response gain is substantially one at frequencies equal to or lower than a filter cutoff frequency, a frequency response gain decreases with increase in frequency in a range from the filter cutoff frequency ?fL to a filter upper limit frequency ?fH higher than the filter cutoff frequency ?fL, and a frequency response gain is substantially constant at frequencies equal to or higher than the filter upper limit frequency ?fH, and performs computing to apply the filter characteristics to a feedback transfer function, wherein a control-constant set unit sets a speed gain Kv and at least one of the filter cutoff frequency ?fL and the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to reduce a ratio of the filter upper limit frequency ?fH to the filter cutoff frequency ?fL with increase in the speed gain Kv.

Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment includes a first radio equipment that transmits first data using first radio waves, a data transmitter that transmits a second radio wave for causing a disturbance on the first radio wave according to second data, and a second radio equipment that modulates the first data transmitted from the first radio equipment, and modulates the second data transmitted from the data transmitter using a variation in a bit error rate of communication between the first radio equipment and the second radio equipment. The data transmitter includes an amplifier that amplifies a signal corresponding to the first radio wave received by a first antenna, and a feedback element that feedbacks a signal from an output node of the amplifier to an input node of the amplifier, and forms a feedback loop.

Abstract: To provide a parallel drive system that can reduce vibrations of an arm member and can realize positioning at a high speed even when a slave servomotor does not have a position detector, at a low cost. To achieve this object, a parallel drive system of the invention includes: a master servomotor and a slave servomotor that include linearly-moving movable units that are arranged in parallel to each other, respectively; and an arm member that forms a bridge between the two movable units. The system includes: a position detector detecting position information on the movable unit of the master servomotor; an acceleration sensor detecting acceleration information on the movable unit of the slave servomotor; a master servo amplifier controlling the master servomotor based on the position information; and a slave servo amplifier controlling the slave servomotor based on the position information and the acceleration information.

Abstract: To stably control a driving object to approach and contact a pressure object at a low impact, to suppress a vibration generated when the driving object presses the pressure object, and to enable a motor controller to operate based on a simple command, a regression torque controller of the motor controller limits a torque-control velocity command to up to a velocity limit value vlim defined based on a contact velocity between a driving object and a pressure object and outputs the torque-control velocity command, and a velocity controller of the motor controller calculates a torque command so that a motor velocity can follow the torque-control velocity command output from the regression torque controller.

Abstract: A servo control device includes a follow-up control unit that controls a control target that drives a mechanical system by a motor, a command function unit that has input therein a phase signal ? indicating a phase of a cyclic operation performed by the control target, and that calculates a machine motion command according to the phase signal ? by a preset first function, a second derivative unit that uses a second function obtained by second-order differentiating the first function with respect to the phase signal to calculate a value of the second function according to the phase signal as a second-order differential base signal, a correction-value computation unit that computes a first command correction value for correcting the motor motion command by using a product of a square value of the phase velocity, the second-order differential base signal, and a first constant, and a correction-value addition unit that calculates the motor motion command based on an added value of the first command correction val

Abstract: A motor control device includes a vibration-damping-control setting unit to designate one of a plurality of candidate frequencies of a vibration-damping frequency, a signal-for-estimation computing unit to output, based on an operation signal related to a controlled object, a signal for estimation in which signal components of the other candidate frequencies excluding the designated one candidate frequency are reduced from a vibration component of a control system, and a resonance-characteristic estimating unit to estimate one resonance frequency from the output signal for estimation. The vibration-damping-control setting unit designates each of the candidate frequencies individually as one candidate frequency and sets, in a feedforward control unit, each of resonance frequencies estimated by the resonance-characteristic estimating unit related to the individually designated each one candidate frequency.