title: Feedforward control of a closed-loop piezoelectric translation stage for atomic force microscope.
abstract: Simple feedforward ideas are shown to lead to a nearly tenfold increase in the effective bandwidth of a closed-loop piezoelectric positioning stage used in scanning probe microscopy. If the desired control signal is known in advance, the feedforward filter can be acausal: the information about the future can be used to make the output of the stage have almost no phase lag with respect to the input. This keeps in register the images assembled from right and left scans. We discuss the design constraints imposed by the need for the feedforward filter to work robustly under a variety of circumstances. Because the feedforward needs only to modify the input signal, it can be added to any piezoelectric stage, whether closed or open loop.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bechhoefer
mesh_terms: D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods