Abstract: A drive system drives a switch. The drive system includes: a drive shaft connecting the drive system to the switch; a motor configured to drive the drive shaft; a feedback system; and a controller. The feedback system is configured to: determine at least one value for a position of the drive shaft; and generate a feedback signal based on the at least one value. The controller acts on an operation of the motor depending on the feedback signal.

Abstract: During each of a plurality of iterations, a policy of a controller is updated and at least part of a process is controlled using the updated policy. The updated policy is associated with a performance level of the controller. For each iteration, the updated policy is determined using the associations generated during one or more previous iterations between the policies and the corresponding performance levels of the controller in controlling the at least part of the process, such that the updated policy is optimized to have a highest likelihood of producing a positive change in the performance level of the controller in controlling the at least part of the process rather than optimized to have a highest likelihood of producing a largest positive magnitude of change in the performance level of the controller in controlling the at least part of the process relative to the previous iteration.

Abstract: A power supply comprises an output stage configured to provide a supply current, in order to obtain a supply voltage. The power supply also comprises a digital regulator configured to receive a reference voltage information and a measured voltage information and to provide a control signal. The power supply further comprises an inner analog control loop, wherein the inner analog control loop is configured to provide an analog feedback signal, which is based on the supply voltage, to the output stage, to make an analog regulation contribution to a regulation of the supply voltage. A method for supplying power to a load is also disclosed.

Abstract: A modular reactor device has an outer housing, a reaction chamber, a fluid pathway connected to the reaction chamber, and a valve to control flow of fluid within the device. The outer housing has a plurality of connection ports including: a fluid input and a fluid output; an electrical input; and a pneumatic input. Either the electrical input or the pneumatic input is connected to the valve to provide for control of the valve, and either the fluid input or the fluid output is connected to the reaction chamber or the fluid pathway. Other aspects provide a base station for receiving and controlling a modular reactor device and methods for manufacturing the modular reactor device and for performing reactions using a modular reactor device.

Abstract: A robot control method of controlling motion of a robot arm by using a servo motor includes adding d-axis electric current to a motor electric current command (steps 15-6, 15-8) if external temperature is less than or equal to a predetermined value (step 15-3), and if an absolute value of the motor electric current command is less than or equal to a predetermined value (step 15-4), and if a value of detected overload is less than or equal to a predetermined value (step 15-5).

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a steer by wire steering system includes a handwheel, and a handwheel actuator configured to secure a position of the handwheel. The securing includes determining a transition of the steer by wire steering system to an ingress/egress mode. The securing further includes, based on the determination that the steer by wire steering system is in the ingress/egress mode, computing a holding torque command based on a difference in a present angle of the handwheel and a target angle of the handwheel, which is caused by an input torque. Further, the securing includes generating a holding torque corresponding to the holding torque command to secure the position of the handwheel.

Abstract: A system and method for improved anti-windup that minimizes supply current draw under voltage saturated current control operation of synchronous motor drives are provided. The system and method use a voltage limiting module configured to receive a pre-limit voltage command and generate a post-limit voltage command when the motor control system reaches configured threshold; and an anti-windup module configured to determine a voltage difference between the post-limit and pre-limit voltage commands, and compute an anti-windup feedback current using the voltage difference and compensation gains selected to minimize supply current. The compensation gains comprise a gain matrix of values selected to move a motor current trajectory toward a null motor current vector, and the anti-windup module multiplies the gain matrix values by the voltage difference. The anti-windup feedback current and an input current command are then added and provided as an input to the controller.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a cooling fan, a voltage regulator, and a slew rate controller. The voltage regulator is configurable to drive a power device with a selectable slew rate. The slew rate controller directs the voltage regulator to change the selectable slew rate in response to determining the operating condition of the cooling fan.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter converts a received input voltage into an output voltage that powers a dynamic load. The controller controls a setting of a switching frequency applied to the power converter. During one operational mode, the controller transitions a setting of the switching frequency of the power converter from a first clock frequency signal to a second clock frequency signal depending on occurrence of phase alignment of the second clock frequency signal and the first clock frequency signal, which may eventually occur over multiple switching control cycles. Transition of the switching frequency from the first clock frequency signal to the second clock frequency signal at or around a time of the phase alignment reduces possible perturbations in the output voltage as a result of the clock frequency switchover.

Abstract: Material-Sensing Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging (LIDAR) systems optionally include a laser configured to generate a light pulse, a beam steerer configured to produce a polarization-adjusted light pulse emitted towards an object, at least one polarizer configured to polarize reflected, scattered, or emitted light returned from the object, and a processor configured to detect at least one material of the object based on an intensity and polarization of the polarized reflected, scattered or emitted light from the object. The beam steerer may include a kirigami nanocomposite. Methods are also provided, including, for example, generating a light pulse, adjusting a polarization of the light pulse to produce a polarization-adjusted light pulse emitted towards an object, polarizing reflected, scattered, or emitted light returned from the object, and detecting at least one material of the object based on an intensity and polarization of the polarized reflected, scattered or emitted light from the object.

Abstract: A motion system and method of managing health of the motion system uses exclusively motion variables used by a servo drive of the motion system to calculate at least one health indication value for the motion system. The health indication value is used to generate a notification for maintenance of the motion system.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is performed by a control computer. The method includes receiving a time series of control inputs in relation to a control axis of an aircraft, where the control computer causes actuation in response to each control input in the time series as the control input is received. The method also includes determining aircraft oscillation over a sample period corresponding to the time series. The method also includes evaluating information related to the determined aircraft oscillation using engagement settings associated with a control filter. The method also includes engaging the control filter responsive to the information satisfying the engagement settings, where the engaged control filter systematically attenuates future control inputs in relation to the control axis prior to actuation responsive thereto.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a motor is provided. The method includes defining a reference speed for operating the motor; operating the motor until a first operating point at which the motor reaches the reference speed; measuring a first current of the motor and an angular acceleration associated with the first current at the first operating point; operating the motor until a second operating point at which the motor reaches the reference speed; measuring a second current of the motor at the second operating point; and estimating a calibration coefficient for calibrating the motor based at least on the first current, the second current, and the angular acceleration associated with the first current.

Abstract: A vibration control device moves an object by controlling an actuator. The vibration control device controls a position and speed of the actuator, generates a model by modeling the object; and calculates an inverse system output based on the model and the control to provide positive feedback of a position of the object based on the inverse system output.

Abstract: A control device for a technical process, having at least two devices for detecting a respective input signal and at least one manipulated variable output device. The output device forms a difference between a reference variable and a controlled variable and ascertains a manipulated variable therefrom. The control device additionally has at least one internal signal processing system for influencing the time response and damping behavior of a control loop formed by the control device and technical process. At least two filter devices provide signal processing. A first filter device interacts with the process such that the control loop time response can be influenced by a filter device property change, and at least one amplification element interacts such that the control loop damping behavior can be influenced by an amplification element amplification factor change and such that the second filter device and the I element can be activated individually.

Abstract: In one example, a method for controlling temperature of a print dryer. High power is applied to a heater of the print dryer. A series of temperatures of the print dryer are periodically measured and stored until a target temperature for the print dryer is exceeded. Low power is applied to the heater after the target temperature is exceeded. A rate of temperature change at a time when the target temperature was exceeded is calculated from the stored temperatures. Using the rate, an initial heater duty cycle defining an initial heater power determined. PID control of the heater power is performed, beginning with the initial heater duty cycle, to maintain the print dryer temperature at the target temperature within a predefined accuracy.

Abstract: A process control device may include a controller having a remote device trip initiation input, a local device trip initiation input, a remote trip condition input, and a local device reset input. The process control device may also include a device trip source determination module configured to determine a device trip source based on at least one of: the remote device trip initiation input and the local device trip initiation input. The process control device may further include a device reset determination module configured to: automatically generate a device reset when the device trip source determination module determines that the device trip source is a remote device trip and based on the remote trip condition input; or generate the device reset when the device trip source determination module determines that the device trip source is a local device trip and based on the local device reset input.

Abstract: A motor controller includes: an error suppression compensation unit that outputs an error suppression signal for driving the motor such that a difference between the position command signal and a signal based on the motor position signal equals zero; an acceleration extraction unit that outputs an acceleration component of a natural frequency of a stand from a stand vibration signal; an acceleration compensation unit that outputs a proportional compensation signal obtained by multiplying the stand acceleration signal by a proportional gain; a machine end correction unit that outputs a machine end correction signal, and decreases an amplitude of vibration at the machine end relative position; and an addition unit that outputs a signal obtained by adding the machine end correction signal to the error suppression signal.

Abstract: A method, according to the present invention, of adjusting control parameters used in a control apparatus of an electric motor includes the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic (Step 1); computing a present speed-proportional gain range (Step 2); computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant (Step 3); computing a present proportional gain range (Step 4); computing a secular characteristic (Step 5); computing a secular speed-proportional gain range (Step 6); computing a secular proportional gain range (Step 7); and selecting proportional gain values (Step 8).

Abstract: A system for estimating flux linkage in an electric motor includes a flux estimation module that generates estimated flux linkages based on a back electromagnetic force and estimated velocity of the electric motor, the flux linkages having an alpha flux linkage component and a beta flux linkage component, and a velocity estimation module that generates an estimated motor velocity based on the back electromagnetic force and the estimated flux linkages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wind power plant, with at least one wind turbine generator, where each of the at least one wind turbine generator has a first voltage controller with a first bandwidth, arranged for controlling a voltage level, and where the wind power plant has a power plant controller with a second voltage controller with a second bandwidth also arranged for controlling the voltage level, the first bandwidth is larger than the second bandwidth. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the voltage level of a wind power plant, by using multi bandwidth voltage controllers.

Abstract: A microcomputer operates as a positioning part positions a rotor at a control start position, which is a position of the rotor relative to a stator to be able to start controlling driving of a brushless motor, by supplying a current to a winding set a number of times “n” (n is an integer equal to two or more) before starting to control driving of the brushless motor. The microcomputer, operating as the positioning part, controls electric power supplied to the winding set so that the rotor rotates in the same direction at each of “n” times of power supply to the winding set, that is, at each of “n?1” times of switchovers of power supply to the winding set.

Abstract: A method for controlling operation of a refrigeration system (1), including one or more refrigeration entities (4), is disclosed. Each entity controller (7) obtains a measure for an error value between the measured value of a compressor control parameter and a setpoint value (8) for the compressor control parameter, and each entity controller (7) adjusts a refrigeration load of the corresponding refrigeration entity (4) to correspond to a cooling capacity of the compressor(s) (2), and in accordance with the obtained measure for an error value.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes providing a process controller configured to perform a control algorithm based on at least one first control parameter, providing a parameter controller configured to perform a parameter adjustment algorithm, providing a turbine having an output sensor, providing to the process controller at least one first control parameter and a first input value, controlling the turbine based on the at least one first control parameter and the first input value, receiving a turbine response value provided by the turbine output sensor, determining at least one second control parameter based on the turbine response value and the parameter adjustment algorithm, providing, to the process controller from the parameter controller, the at least one second control parameter, and controlling the turbine based on the at the least one second control parameter and a second input value.

Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method including measuring phase currents associated with one or more stator windings of the machine, estimating terminal voltage values based on the measured phase currents representations of the machine and based on at least one of a duty cycle and a dead time ratio of the machine, transforming the terminal voltage values to derive direct and quadrature voltage representations consistent with the measured phase currents, determining a terminal power of one or more terminals of the machine, the terminal power directly based on one of the estimated terminal voltage values and direct and quadrature voltage representations of the machine and current command values and determining an estimated shaft torque of the machine based on the terminal power in accordance with at least one efficiency value based on machine parameters from a characterization of the machine.

Abstract: A boost converter control apparatus for controlling a motor drive system which is provided with a boost converter disposed between an electric power converter and a direct current power supply, the boost converter boosting a direct current voltage of the direct current power supply and supplying it to the electric power converter, is provided with: an operating device provided with a proportional element, an integral element and a derivative element, the derivative element being configured as a bandpass filter, the operating device calculating a PID controlled variable corresponding to an electric current command value of the boost converter for maintaining an output voltage of the boost converter at a command value of an inter-terminal voltage VH of a smoothing condenser; and a controlling device which is configured to control the output voltage of the boost converter on the basis of the calculated PID controlled variable.

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: An electric motor system includes a brushless direct-current motor, a driver circuit, a position sensor, and a control circuit. The motor has an output shaft for transmitting torque. The driver circuit supplies power to the motor according to a control signal input thereto. The position sensor measures an angular, rotational position of the motor shaft. The control circuit controls operation of the motor. The control circuit includes a position sensor terminal, a reference terminal, a differential calculator, a controller, and a gain adjuster. The position sensor terminal receives a feedback signal. The reference terminal receives a reference signal. The differential calculator generates an error signal representing a difference between the measured and targeted rotational positions. The controller generates the control signal based on the error signal through a combination of control actions. The gain adjuster is connected to the controller to adjust a gain of each control action.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a real-time servo motor controller based on a load weight capable of not only adaptively controlling the servo motor even when load inertia varies in accordance with a weight of a load (material) but also controlling the servo motor in an optimum state regardless of the load weight by reflecting in real time various mechanical variables generated while transferring the load.

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 controller for a conventional synchronous motor is configured to produce desired output characteristics. The controller generates a drive current for based on a current command, has a motor correcting section and a gain adjusting section which output a compensated current command based on the current command according to a compensating transfer function for cancelling a first transfer function showing a first torque response characteristic of the synchronous motor and replacing it with a second transfer function showing a second torque response characteristic, and a current controller which generates a drive current corresponding to the compensated current command.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus includes: a comparing unit comparing a target value and an output value and calculating error values therefrom; and a controlling unit controlling the motor by selecting one of a proportional control and a proportional integral control according to an average error value calculated by averaging the error values for each section having a predetermined interval and adjusting a gain value of the selected control.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an error in a resolver includes a first calculator that perform an inverse Park transform based on voltages Uq and Ud at an output of PI current regulators, and delivers voltage setpoint signals PWMA, PWMB, PWMC to a power stage via a line on which a DC voltage Ubus-dc is available. The power stage generates a three-phase system of voltages UA, UB, UC for energizing an electric machine. The apparatus also includes a signal processor that provides an angle measurement ?m. Based on currents MesIA, MesIB, MesIC of the three phases, and on a rotor angle ?r, a second calculator of the device delivers values MesId, MesIq used by the first calculator. A PI voltage regulator delivers an angle ?c for correcting the error by regulating a setpoint value for the voltage Ud.

Abstract: An electric motor system includes a brushless direct-current motor, a driver circuit, a position sensor, and a control circuit. The motor has an output shaft for transmitting torque. The driver circuit supplies power to the motor according to a control signal input thereto. The position sensor measures an angular, rotational position of the motor shaft. The control circuit controls operation of the motor. The control circuit includes a position sensor terminal, a reference terminal, a differential calculator, a controller, and a gain adjuster. The position sensor terminal receives a feedback signal. The reference terminal receives a reference signal. The differential calculator generates an error signal representing a difference between the measured and targeted rotational positions. The controller generates the control signal based on the error signal through a combination of control actions. The gain adjuster is connected to the controller to adjust a gain of each control action.

Abstract: An improved technique for controlling an electro-mechanical actuator combines a sliding mode of control with a second mode of control. An error signal is generated based on the difference between an input position signal and a feedback position signal. When the error signal is above a predetermined threshold, the actuator is controlled in the sliding control mode. When the error signal is below the predetermined threshold, the actuator is controlled in the second control mode. The combination of the sliding control mode with the second control mode yields a robust controller that can tolerate large parameter variations and uncertainties without sacrificing precise steady state tracking.

Abstract: A motor control device main unit includes a pressure command signal generation module, a pressure control module, a speed control module, and a current control module. The pressure command signal generation module of the motor control device main unit generates a pressure command value so that a derivative of the pressure command value is equal to or less than a product of an elastic constant of the pressurized target and a maximum motor speed. The pressure control module carries out pressure control calculation to calculate a motor speed command value based on a deviation between the pressure command value and an actual pressure value, and generates a motor speed command signal, which is a signal of the motor speed command value.

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.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a position sensor to sense the position of a ferromagnetic target and generate a target position signal, a scaling block to receive the target position signal, and a digital RC filter to generate an output using bit shifting for dividing by some factor of two, wherein all division for computations in the RC filter are performed by bit shifts.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a boost converter is provided with: an operating device provided with a proportional element, an integral element and a derivative element, the derivative element being configured as a bandpass filter, the operating device calculating a PID controlled variable; a controlling device for controlling the output voltage of the boost converter on the basis of the calculated PID controlled variable; a judging device for judging whether or not loss suppression on the direct current power supply is to be prioritized; and a switching device for switching an operation mode of the operating device from a variation suppression mode to a loss suppression mode if it is judged that the loss suppression is to be prioritized. In the loss suppression mode, a cutoff frequency of the bandpass filter is corrected to a lower frequency side at a lower rotational speed of the three-phase alternating current motor.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a position detector to detect a position of a motor. A speed operator calculates a first speed of the motor. A position controller outputs a first speed command. A speed controller acquires a difference between the first speed command and a second speed of the motor to output a first torque/thrust command. A phase compensator includes a lowpass filter to advance a phase of the second speed, and acquires the first speed and the first torque/thrust command to output the second speed. An inertia variation inhibitor includes a disturbance observer estimating a disturbance torque/thrust. The inertia variation inhibitor acquires the first speed and a second torque/thrust command, and adds the disturbance torque/thrust to the first torque/thrust command to output the second torque/thrust command. A torque/thrust controller acquires the second torque/thrust command to control a motor torque/thrust.

Abstract: An image forming device capable of controlling a scanning unit and a method to control the scanning unit, the image forming device including a rate error calculator to calculate a rate error from a difference between a practical rotation rate and a target rate of a motor that drives the scanning unit, a position error calculator to calculate a position error from a difference between a current position and a target position of the motor, and a rate/position controller to output a control pulse to control a rate and a position of the motor by applying the rate error and the position error.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for ripple suppression of brushless DC motors at any given velocity irrespective of the limited bandwidth of the driver/amplifier supplying the excitation currents to the stator. In a preferred embodiment, Fourier coefficients of the current waveform are calculated as a function of rotor velocity by taking into account the driver/amplifier's finite bandwidth dynamics. For a given velocity, Fourier coefficients of the series approximating the waveform (control signal) are calculated as a function of the rotor velocity and the amplifier dynamics, to generate a waveform that results in no torque or velocity pulsations. When changing the motor speed, the coefficients are updated (recalculated) based on the new desired velocity (and amplifier dynamics), resulting in generation of an updated waveform that results in no torque or velocity pulsations at the new motor speed.

Abstract: Improved precision is realized in positioning control. Provided is a servo control device that is applied to a numerical control equipment provided with a screw-feeding section that converts rotational movement of a motor to linear movement, a driven section that is linearly moved by the screw-feeding section, and a support member by which the screw-feeding section and the driven section are supported and that controls the motor so as to match a position of the driven section to a positioning instruction, including a support-member-reaction-force compensating section 311 that compensates for vibrations of the driven section due to a vibrational reaction force of the support member, wherein a transfer function provided in the support-member-reaction-force compensating section 311 includes a stiffness term for the driven section.

Abstract: A method and system for process control configuration changes are described. In one embodiment, a method for switching from a first control algorithm to a second control algorithm in a continuous process control system is described. The method, in the one embodiment, includes executing the first control algorithm, determining to switch from the first control algorithm to the second control algorithm, and executing the second control algorithm. For at least a first execution of the second control algorithm, at least one state variable used in the second control algorithm is adjusted.

Abstract: A method according to an example of the present invention is a servo control method to be applied to a feed drive mechanism configured to drive an object to be driven by using a plurality of motors, in which velocity control of the object to be driven is carried out by using a signal obtained by mixing velocity feedback signals of the motors with each other, and a torque instruction obtained by the velocity control is used for drive of all the motors. By this example, there is provided a servo control system capable of preventing a phenomenon in which a transfer function changes depending on the position of the object to be driven, and the phase abruptly lags to make the operation unstable, thereby making it difficult to increase the gain, from occurring.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for estimating electrical angular speed of a permanent magnet machine based on two-phase stationary reference frame feedback stator current samples, and a dimensionless gain (K) that is computed based on a sampling time (T) and machine parameters.

Abstract: A motor control device according to an embodiment includes a first subtractor, a speed controller, and a phase compensating speed observer. The first subtractor subtracts a speed reference from a speed feedback signal to obtain a speed deviation. The speed controller receives the speed deviation and outputs a first torque reference. The phase compensating speed observer receives the first torque reference and a speed of a controlled object including a motor, and outputs the speed feedback signal. The phase compensating speed observer includes a delay element model having an integral element of an order optimally satisfying a setting condition based on a degree of easiness for implementation and a degree of usefulness for phase delay compensation of the speed feedback signal to the speed reference.

Abstract: Presented is a system and method for controlling an actuator in a multirate control system using an integrated upsampler and filter, comprising an incremental command limiter for changing a command from a first control system into a limited incremental command in a second control system, a lead-lag filter for filtering the limited incremental command to attenuate high frequencies, and a feed forward path for reducing phase loss in rate output signal at low frequencies. In embodiments, a command position signal received at the sampling rate of the first control system is interpolated into incremental command position signals at the sampling rate of the second control system. Position error signals and rate error signals from the devices being controlled are used as feedback to further stability the control loops.

Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) includes a stator and rotor powered by an inverter. A device to control the PMSM includes a sensor to sample a measurement ?m of the position of the rotor, a control unit to control an operating point of the PMSM according to the position of the rotor and settings, and an estimation unit to determine an estimate {circumflex over (?)} of the rotor position. The device also includes a malfunction detector to detect a malfunction of the sensor and a switch to connect the control unit to the sensor so that the control unit receives the measured position ?m of the rotor while the malfunction detector does not indicate any sensor malfunction, and otherwise to connect the control unit to the estimation unit so that the control unit receives the estimated position {circumflex over (?)} of the rotor when the malfunction detector indicates a sensor malfunction.

Abstract: The invention provides a position control system comprising a moving portion that is movable, a position-detection portion that detects a position of the moving portion, a drive portion that applies driving force to the moving portion thereby moving the moving portion, a control portion that controls the driving force of the drive portion, and an input portion for inputting a drive target position for the moving portion, characterized in that the control portion is operable to determine the driving force to be applied to the drive portion based on a correction coefficient acquired based on a first deviation that is a difference between the drive target position inputted into the input portion and the reference position, and a second deviation that is a difference between a position detected by the position-detection portion and the drive target position inputted into said input portion.