LQG Controller for Active Vibration Absorber in Optical Disk Drive

Unbalanced disks in rotation will lead to the main vibration of an optical disk drive. Passive vibration absorbers are usually used in current optical disk drives to suppress vibration. Generally, optical disk drives have to make a disk spin at multiple speeds by different read/write conditions. However, the passive vibration absorber only suppresses vibration at a specific rotating speed and may excite vibration at other speeds. This paper uses a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller for active vibration absorbers to reduce disk-drive vibration at multiple rotating speeds. The absorber with LQG control is validated based on simulation and experimental results