Many points positioning control of a pneumatic cylinder for a vertical axis actuator using two degrees of freedom PI control method

Author(s):  
H. Kawanaka ◽  
K. Hanada
Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1015
Author(s):  
Mingfei Huang ◽  
Yongting Deng ◽  
Hongwen Li ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Meng Shao ◽  
...  

This paper concentrates on a robust resonant control strategy of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) for electric drivers with model uncertainties and external disturbances to improve the control performance of the current loop. Firstly, to reduce the torque ripple of PMSM, the resonant controller with fractional order (FO) calculus is introduced. Then, a robust two degrees-of-freedom (Robust-TDOF) control strategy was designed based on the modified resonant controller. Finally, by combining the two control methods, this study proposes an enhanced Robust-TDOF regulation method, named as the robust two degrees-of-freedom resonant controller (Robust-TDOFR), to guarantee the robustness of model uncertainty and to further improve the performance with minimized periodic torque ripples. Meanwhile, a tuning method was constructed followed by stability and robust stability analysis. Furthermore, the proposed Robust-TDOFR control method was applied in the current loop of a PMSM to suppress the periodic current harmonics caused by non-ideal factors of inverter and current measurement errors. Finally, simulations and experiments were performed to validate our control strategy. The simulation and experimental results showed that the THDs (total harmonic distortion) of phase current decreased to a level of 0.69% and 5.79% in the two testing environments.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bou Saba ◽  
Paolo Massioni ◽  
Eric Bideaux ◽  
Xavier Brun

Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are an interesting type of actuators as they provide high power-to-weight and power-to-volume ratio. However, their efficient use requires very accurate control methods taking into account their complex and nonlinear dynamics. This paper considers a two degrees-of-freedom platform whose attitude is determined by three pneumatic muscles controlled by servovalves. An overactuation is present as three muscles are controlled for only two degrees-of-freedom. The contribution of this work is twofold. First, whereas most of the literature approaches the control of systems of similar nature with sliding mode control, we show that the platform can be controlled with the flatness-based approach. This method is a nonlinear open-loop controller. In addition, this approach is model-based, and it can be applied thanks to the accurate models of the muscles, the platform and the servovalves, experimentally developed. In addition to the flatness-based controller, which is mainly a feedforward control, a proportional-integral (PI) controller is added in order to overcome the modeling errors and to improve the control robustness. Second, we solve the overactuation of the platform by an adequate choice for the range of the efforts applied by the muscles. In this paper, we recall the basics of this control technique and then show how it is applied to the proposed experimental platform. At the end of the paper, the proposed approach is compared to the most commonly used control method, and its effectiveness is shown by means of experimental results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 003685041987773
Author(s):  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Tianhong Luo ◽  
Chunpeng Pan ◽  
Guoguo Wu

Synchronous control is a fundamental and significant problem for controlling a multi-joint robot. In this article, by applying two coupled Rayleigh oscillators as the referred central pattern generator models for the two joints of a two-degrees-of-freedom robot, the central pattern generator–based coupling control method is proposed for controlling the two-degrees-of-freedom robot’s joints. On these bases, the co-simulation model of the two-degrees-of-freedom robot with the proposed central pattern generator–based coupling control method is established via ADAMS and MATLAB/Simulink, and the performance of the central pattern generator–based coupling control method on synchronizing two motions of two-degrees-of-freedom robot’s joints is numerically simulated. Furthermore, the experimental setup of a two-degrees-of-freedom robot is established based on the real-time simulations system via the proposed central pattern generator–based coupling control method. And experiments are carried out on the established setup. Simulations and experimental results show that the phase of the controlled two-degrees-of-freedom robot’s joints is mutual locked to other, and their motion pattern can be adjusted through the coupling parameter in the central pattern generator–based coupling control method. In conclusion, the proposed central pattern generator–based coupling control method can control the two-degrees-of-freedom robot’s joints to produce the coordinated motions and adjust the rhythmic pattern of the two-degrees-of-freedom robot.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 168781401880893
Author(s):  
Yinfei Zhu ◽  
Han Zhao ◽  
Hao Sun ◽  
Kang Huang ◽  
Yinghui Dong

In this article, by using Lagrange energy method, we establish the dynamical model of a two degrees-of-freedom helicopter, which is subject to holonomic constraints. A control method based on Udwadia–Kalaba theory is proposed to achieve the trajectory tracking control of the 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter. Different from traditional methods, this method could solve the constraint force of the mechanical system without adding additional parameters such as Lagrange multipliers. When initial conditions are compatible, we can use the nominal control which is based on Udwadia–Kalaba equation to control 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter in real time. But when initial conditions have incompatibility, the simulation result could produce divergence phenomenon. To solve the trajectory tracking control problem of 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter under incompatible initial conditions, a modified controller is proposed. We also make simulation contrast by different control methods to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the modified controller. Simulation results show that the modified controller can drive the 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter to perfectly track the desired trajectory with less control cost and high control accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 04007
Author(s):  
Xiaotao Hua ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Haiyang Sun ◽  
Jianru Chen

It is very important to level foundation bed by riprap in water and soil engineering. In this paper, a real-time feedback convergence control method is proposed to control the position and heading angle of the riprap leveling ship. The wind, wave, current and hydrodynamic parameters are obtained by empirical formula; the tension of four cables is calculated according to the balance equation of six degrees of freedom, and then the cable deformation is obtained. According to the deformation of the cable, the length of the cable in a certain equilibrium state can be obtained. The length of four cables can be lengthened or shortened by comparing the length of cables at two balanced positions. The length of cables can be controlled by winch to complete the anchoring and positioning control of leveling ship.


1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiang C. Mei

Salter has demonstrated experimentally that a horizontal cylinder in the free surface of water can be a device to extract energy from the incident waves. This paper proposes a design which is based on the idea of a tethered-float breakwater, and gives the theoretical design criteria for maximum power extraction from a general floating cylinder with one or two degrees of freedom. It is shown that the rate of energy extraction must be equal to the rate of radiation damping and that the floating body must be made to resonate then for a body with one degree of freedom, the maximum efficiency at a given frequency can be at leastone half if the body is symmetrical about a vertical axis, and greater for an asymmetrical body. For a body with two degrees of freedom, all the wave power can be extracted. Hydrodynamical aspects of the controlled motion are examined. Viscous effects are ignored.


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