Stepper motors and cylinders move from one step to the next and stop when there are many milliseconds between steps. There is no speed control between steps. The jerky motion may be hard to see but it can be felt.
Can the same stepper cylinder reach speeds over 1m/s?
Yang Shi Xiang ignores that a computer is required to tell the stepper cylinders how to move. The stepper cylinders cannot accurately follow a motion profile while moving.
Stepper cylinders will always have a following error and a settling time constant.
After all these years, Yang Shi Xiang has not improved stepper cylinders with feed forwards so that following errors may be eliminated. After all these years Yang Shi Xiang only uses proportional control.
Electric cylinders need PID adjustments, but electric cylinders are easier to adjust because they do not have two chambers of compressible oil. Electric cylinders still need to adjust for the inertia of the cylinder rod, motor and load.
Stepper cylinders ignore the extra challenges of having two chambers of compressible oil. Yang Shi Xiang forgets that stepper cylinders have a natural frequency because the cylinder piston and load are trapped between two springs. The lag is dependent on the natural frequency and damping ratio. I have discussed this before. Stepper cylinders require 5-time constants get within 1% of the final position. This is much longer than a millisecond. Yang Shi Xiang admits the slow stop caused by the 5-time constants.
Even small moves are slow when using a stepper cylinder. Stepper cylinders only have a proportional gain that is fixed. The proportional gain cannot be adjusted for the load.
Stepper cylinders cannot follow a 5 Hz sine wave without following error.
Servo cylinders can stop slow or fast. The RMC hydraulic motion controller make motion programmable.