| Abstract: | Some aspects of injection-molding dynamics were studied using a laboratory injection-molding machine operated under the control of a microprocessor-based servocontrol system. Two types of experiments were performed: deterministic tests which introduced step changes in the servovalve opening and stochastic tests using pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) perturbations of the servovalve. Deterministic models were written for the hydraulic and nozzle pressures which were in good agreement with the experimental data. A stochastic transfer function-noise model was obtained for the nozzle pressure, but an adequate model was not found for the hydraulic pressure. The agreement between the nozzle pressure stochastic model and the corresponding step test model was satisfactory. |
