Oscillating signal components of a dead-weight force-standard machine and reduction techniques

Abstract

This paper describes the dynamic behaviour of a dead-weight force-standard machine at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). When a build-up system is set into a dead-weight machine, the signals from the force transducers in the build-up system consist of a dc component and oscillating signal components. The dominant oscillating components are due to pendulum motions of the dead weights and bounce-mode oscillation. The oscillation frequencies are about 0.19-0.23 Hz for the pendulum motions and 0.67-1.42 Hz for the bounce-mode oscillation. The frequencies decrease as the weights loaded are increased. The time-averaging technique is the simplest method for reducing the ac components. However, it has some limitations in that the averaging time must be re-adjusted according to the loading conditions. Other methods of reducing the ac components are therefore required. We introduced an infinite-impulse-response (IIR) low-pass filter, which reduced the oscillating components dramatically for all loading conditions. The results obtained by using IIR filtering were compared with those of time averaging and shown to be better.