A Waveform Design Method for a Piezo Inkjet （压电喷墨的波形设计方法）.pdf

DRAFT SUBMITTED TO: IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS 1 A Waveform Design Method for a Piezo Inkjet Printhead based on Robust Feedforward Control ´ ˇ Amol A. Khalate, Xavier Bombois, Gerard Scorletti, Robert Babuska, Sjirk Koekebakker, and Wim de Zeeuw Abstract—The printing quality delivered by a Drop-on- posed by new applications, these drop properties have to be Demand (DoD) piezo inkjet printhead is limited mainly due tightly controlled. to the residual oscillations in the ink channel. The maximal The performance of the inkjet printhead is mainly limited jetting frequency of a DoD inkjet printhead can be increased by quickly damping the residual oscillations and so bringing an due to the residual pressure oscillations. The actuation pulses ink-channel to rest after jetting an ink drop. In this paper, we are designed to provide an ink drop of a specified volume and propose a robust optimization-based method to design the input velocity under the assumption that the ink channel is in steady actuation waveform for the piezo actuator in order to improve the state. Once the ink drop is jetted, the pressure oscillations damping of the residual oscillations in the presence of parametric inside the ink channel take several micro-seconds to decay. uncertainties in the ink-channel model. The proposed method obtains a robust actuation pulse by minimizing the tracking error I