Control device with integrated optimizer

A control device for a machine with one or more axes, the control device being programmed with a system program comprising machine code stored on a non-transitory storage medium in machine-readable form, the control device being configured to execute the system program to:

• determine or accept first parameters via a man-machine interface;
• render, based on the first parameters, a first general technological problem in concrete terms as a first specific technological problem associated with determining a path of an axis, among the one or more axes, to be traversed from a start position to an end position, the first specific technological problem including a curve of a velocity of a press stamp as a function of a stroke height of the press stamp;
• determine a first parameterization of an optimization problem based on the first specific technological problem;
• determine, based on the optimization problem parameterized with the first parameterization, first groups of optimized quantities for a sequence of required position values or a temporal derivation of the required position values of the axis via an optimizer within the control device that takes into account an optimization criterion;
• convert a first group of optimized quantities, in each respective case, into one or more variables assigned to a respective required position value once in advance, so that when the machine is activated by the control device, the first specific technological problem is solved in an optimum manner in accordance with the optimization criterion, wherein
• the control device is configured to determine the respective required position value to which the one or more variables will be assigned, in each respective case, as part of solving the optimization problem,
• the one or more variables assigned to the respective required position value of the axis comprise at least a respective required position value of one or more other axes of the machine and an angular velocity related to the axis, and
• the path is defined by the sequence of required position values and the one or more variables depending on the optimization criterion;
• store the assigned one or more variables in a memory in association with the respective required position value in a file;
• accept, after storage of the assigned one or more variables, a first execution command from an operator of the machine;
• read, based on the first execution command, the assigned one or more variables from the memory;
• output, based on the first execution command, the sequence of required position values to the axis;
• and
• activate, during output of the respective required position value, the machine in accordance with the one or more variables assigned to the respective required position value,
• wherein, depending on a specification by the operator, output of the sequence of required position values and the assigned one or more variables is performed (i) only once, (ii) multiple times until a certain number of iterations are processed, or (iii) until the operator or another device specifies an abort command.