Compensation of friction and elastic deformation for ball screw drive system

Nonlinear friction and elastic deformation seriously affect both static and dynamic performance of mechanical serve system, especially in the high-speed and high-precision systems. This paper focuses on modeling, identification, and compensation of non-linear friction and elastic deformation for ball screw drive system. Firstly, the parameters of the stribeck model are identified by the method of extended kalman filter. And then the parameters of stiffness model of the ball screw are identified by the method of the least square based on force analysis of system. Finally, the feed-forward compensation of friction and elastic deformation is performed. The experimental results show that: after the compensation, the steady state error of low-speed motion decreases from 42μm to ±3μm, and that of high-speed motion decreases from 95μm to ±5μm. Therefore, the method proposed can effectively compensate the disturbance of friction and elastic deformation, and improve the tracking accuracy of the ball screw drive system.