Reduction of flow-induced suspension vibrations in a hard disk drive by dual-stage suspension control

A.P. Teerhuis, S.J.M. Cools, R.A. Callafon, de

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Abstract

A control design methodology is proposed to controlan active dual-stage suspension for the reduction of flow-inducedvibrations (windage) in a hard disk drive. The design of thecontroller uses dynamical models of both the suspension and thestochastic behavior of the windage to design a low third-orderdiscrete-time feedback controller to reduce windage-inducedtrack misregistration. Experimental results show that nonrepeatablerunout errors due to windage are reduced by an order of amagnitude.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2237-2239
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume39
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003

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