Design of a Velocity Control System Using an Inlet Metered Pump

Author(s):  
Hasan H. Ali ◽  
Roger C. Fales ◽  
Noah D. Manring

This work introduces a new way to control hydraulic cylinder velocity using an inlet metering pump system to control the hydraulic flow entering the cylinder. The inlet metering system consists of a fixed displacement pump and an inlet metering valve that adjusts the hydraulic fluid flow entering the pump as required. The energy losses associated with flow metering in the system are reduced because the pressure drop across the inlet metering valve can be arbitrarily small. The fluid is supplied to the inlet metering valve at a fixed pressure using a charge pump. A velocity control system is designed using the inlet metering system as means to control the fluid flow to a hydraulic cylinder. In addition to the inlet metering system, the velocity control system designed in this work includes a four-way directional valve to set the fluid flow direction according to the desired direction of the hydraulic cylinder velocity. Open-loop and closed-loop proportional and proportional derivative (P and PD) controllers are designed. Designs with the goals of stability and performance of the system are studied so that a precise and smooth velocity control system for the hydraulic cylinder is achieved. In addition to potentially high efficiency of this system, there is potential for other benefits including low cost, fast response, and less complicated dynamics compared to other systems. The results presented in this work show that the inlet metering velocity control system can be designed so that the system is stable, there is zero overshoot and no oscillation.

Author(s):  
Hasan H. Ali ◽  
Roger C. Fales ◽  
Noah D. Manring

Using a unique inlet metering pump with fixed displacement and speed, this work introduces a new way to control a linear hydraulic actuator velocity. The inlet metering system consists of an inlet metering valve that adjusts the hydraulic fluid flow that enters the pump and a fixed displacement pump. Fluid is supplied to the inlet metering valve at a fixed pressure. Energy losses associated with flow metering in the system are reduced because the pressure drop across the inlet metering valve can be small compared to a traditional valve-controlled system. A velocity control system is designed using the inlet metering pump to control the fluid flow into a hydraulic cylinder. First, the valve dynamic model is ignored, the open-loop response is studied, and closed-loop proportional and proportional derivative controllers are designed. Next, the valve dynamic model is included and closed-loop proportional integral derivative, H∞, and two-degrees-of-freedom controllers are designed. Designs with the goals of stability and performance of the system are considered so that a precise velocity control system for the hydraulic cylinder is achieved. In addition to the potentially high efficiency of this system, there is potential for low-cost, fast-response, and less complicated dynamics compared to other systems. The results show that the velocity control system can be designed so that the system is stable for all cases and with 0% overshoot and no oscillation depending on valve dynamics using the two-degrees-of-freedom controller for tracking the desired velocity.


2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 1355-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Xu ◽  
Zhi Xiong Li ◽  
Hong Ling Qin

Since electro-hydraulic servo system has fast response and highest control accuracy, it has been widely used in industrial application, including aircraft, mining, manufacturing, and agriculture, etc. With the fast development of computer science, it is feasible and available to evaluate the performance of the designed control system via virtual simulation before the practical usage of the system. In order to optimize the design procedure of the electro-hydraulic proportional controller, the co-simulation design method based on AMESim-Matlab is presented for the electro-hydraulic servo system in this paper. High accuracy of the mathematical model of electro-hydraulic servo system was full-fitted by the use of AMESim, and the advantage of high solving precision for large amount of calculation was full played using Matlab. The PID controller was employed to realize the efficient control of the motion of the hydraulic cylinder. The united simulation technique was adopted to verify the good performance of the designed control system. The simulation results suggest that the proposed method is effective for the design of electro-hydraulic servo systems and thus has application importance.


2010 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Li ◽  
Hui Ping Shen ◽  
Y.X. Jiang ◽  
Jia Ming Deng ◽  
Shan Shu Liu ◽  
...  

This paper studied a novel 3-DOF hybrid robot, and invented a new hybrid structure which was composed of 2-DOF parallel structure and 1-DOF serial structure. The structure of this mechanism was simple, stiffness and positioning accuracy was high. The control system based on ARM micro-controller was a step motor open-loop control system, which features compact and low cost while the control accuracy can be guaranteed. In this paper, the body composition of the robot was described, and its inverse kinematics were derived and further simplified. Hardware and software of the motion control system was designed in detail and experimented through prototype.


2014 ◽  
Vol 602-605 ◽  
pp. 1157-1160
Author(s):  
Mei Yu ◽  
Guo Wei Liu ◽  
Bing Kong

In view of the present mining spraying manipulator operation is not flexible ,spraying effect is poor, susceptible to interference and other issues, this paper studies and realizes a kind of low cost, strong practicability of spraying manipulator control system. Using S7-200PLC and 2MA860H drive to control the 86BYG250A stepper motor open-loop control system, and the precise position control is realized. By controlling of the x-y axis mine spraying manipulator. Validate the system operation is simple, highly efficient and stable, energy conservation and environmental protection, strong anti-jamming capability, it can be widely used in all kinds of mining equipment.


1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. McGregor ◽  
Peter Conroy ◽  
Gabe Bloxham ◽  
Jan van Harmelen

AbstractIn late 1998 the International Gemini Project Office identified a need for a low cost, near-infrared spectrograph to be commissioned on the Gemini South telescope on the shortest possible timescale. In response, the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University proposed to design, construct, and commission a near-infrared, integral-field spectrograph on Gemini. The science drivers and novel design of the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph (NIFS) are described in this paper. NIFS will achieve significant economies in cost and schedule in several ways:• By addressing targeted science with high efficiency. NIFS will primarily target velocity measurements in galaxies to study the demographics of black holes in galactic nuclei and the evolution of structural properties in high redshift galaxies. However, NIFS will also be applied to a wide range of general astronomical topics, but these will not dictate the instrument design.• By adopting a largely fixed-format design. A 3·2″ × 3·2″ ‘stair-case’ integral field unit (IFU) will feed a near-infrared spectrograph with four fixed-angle gratings mounted on a single grating wheel. A single, fixed-format camera will form the spectral image on a 2048 × 2048 Rockwell HgCdTe HAWAII-2 array. Two-pixel spectral resolving powers of ∼5400 will be achieved with complete wavelength coverage in each of the J, H, and K photometric bands through 32 optimally sampled 0·1″ wide slitlets. The velocity resolution of ∼55 km s−1 will be sufficient to achieve the targeted science objectives, and will allow software rejection of OH airglow lines.• By packaging the NIFS instrument within a duplicate of the Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI) cryostat. The NIRI cryostat, On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor (OIWFS), detector focusing mechanism, control system, and EPICS software will all be duplicated with only minimal change. Construction of the duplicate NIRI cryostat, OIWFS, and control system will be done by the University of Hawaii.


2012 ◽  
Vol 220-223 ◽  
pp. 580-584
Author(s):  
Wei Ya Ding ◽  
Xue Wu Hu ◽  
Xiao Ming Sheng

The double-acting air-oil intensifier designed in this paper can continuously output high pressure oil which meets the requirements of equipment that is high-pressure and with recirculation motion and it is driven by pneumatic substituting the independent hydraulic power source driven by electric motor. It consists of twin roller piston air cylinder, force amplifier, hydraulic cylinder and oil supercharger. The piston of air cylinder propelled by pressure gas makes cyclic motion and the driving force of piston increased by force amplifier pushes the piston of hydraulic cylinder and forces out hydraulic oil, then oil is input to the system after the second time when pressure amplification by oil superchargers. It has many advantages such as higher pressure ratio, compact structure, high efficiency, low cost and easy access to regulate pressure and flow rate.


Author(s):  
Jameel Kadhim Abed

This paper presents a new smart monitoring system designed based on dc to dc converter for photovoltaic application. This system design according two parts to monitor input-output voltages and currents for dc/dc converter, (a) control system: the control system using Arduino NANO as microcontroller to read the measuring voltage and current values from sensor circuits of voltage and current. The measuring data send by Bluetooth HC-05 to end user (monitor system). Bluetooth as wireless communication between the control system and monitoring system (end users). (b) monitoring system: The monitoring system application program as a new application designed to monitor the received data from control system from safety distance (around 10m). the application program designed by the open source AppyBuilder software. The AppyBuilder is an open source software for easily building Android smartphone application. The advantages of the final circuit can be used to monitor step-up or step-down topologies, low-cost, and high-efficiency performance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Erry Dwi Kurniawan ◽  
Alwin Adam ◽  
Muhammad Ichlasul Salik ◽  
Paulus Lobo Gareso

Micro/nanopatterns with micro deposition techniques have been used in various applications such as flexible electronic devices, biosensing, and biological tissue engineering. For depositing a small size of droplets that can be controlled, structured and patterned precisely is a very important process for microfabrication. In this study, we developed a low cost and simple system for fabricating micro/nanostructure by a selective micro deposition process using a syringe pump. This method is an additive fabrication method where selective droplet materials are released through a needle of the syringe pump. By translating the rotating stepper motor into a linear movement of the lead screw, it will press the plunger of the syringe and give a force to the fluid inside the syringe, hence a droplet can be injected out. The syringe pump system consists of a syringe, the mechanical unit, and the controller unit. A stepper motor, the lead screw, and the mechanical components are used for the mechanical unit. Arduino Uno microcontroller is used as the controller unit and can be programmed by the computer through GUI (Graphical User Interface). The input parameters, such as the push or pull of flow direction, flow rate, the droplet volume, and syringe size dimension can be inputted by the user as their desired value via keypad or the computer. The measurement results show that the syringe pump has characteristics: the maximum average error value of the measured volume is 2.5% and the maximum average error value of the measured flow rate is 14%. The benefits of a syringe pump for micro deposition can overcome photolithography weaknesses, which require an etching and stencil process in the manufacture of semiconductors. Combining two or more syringes into one system with different droplet materials can be used as a promising method for 3D microfabrication in the future.


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