Energy-saving trajectory planning for a toggle mechanism driven by a PMSM

In this paper, energy-saving trajectories are planned for a toggle mechanism driven by a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). The point-to-point (PTP) trajectory is described by a high-degree polynomial, which satisfies the end conditions of displacement, velocity, acceleration and jerk at the initial and final times. The real-coded genetic algorithm (RGA) method is employed to obtain the mechatronic system’s parameters, and to determine the coefficients of the polynomial, and its fitness function is the inverse of various input energies. The numerical simulations and experiments are compared among several degrees’ polynomials during the whole operation motion. Finally, it is found that the input absolute electrical energy (IAEE) occurs when the highest-degree polynomial is chosen. From the percentage of relative error with respect to the absolute input energy of a 7-degree polynomial, it is found that the percentage of relative error achieves 32% as the degree is 24 with enough for minimum input energy degree. The proposed methodology described in this research has the contribution. It can be applied to any mechatronic system which is required to design a minimum-energy point to point trajectory.