Fuzzy Proportional Integral Derivative control of a voice coil actuator system for adaptive deformable mirrors

Research on adaptive deformable mirror technology for voice coil actuators(VCAs)is an important trend in the development of large ground-based telescopes.A voice coil adaptive deformable mirror contains a large number of actuators,and there are problems with structural coupling and large temperature increases in their internal coils.Additionally,parameters of the traditional proportional integral derivative(PID)control cannot be adjusted in real-time to adapt to system changes.These problems can be addressed by introducing fuzzy control methods.A table lookup method is adopted to replace real-time calculations of the regular fuzzy controller during the control process,and a prototype platform has been established to verify the effectiveness and robustness of this process.Experimental tests compare the control performance of traditional and fuzzy proportional integral derivative(Fuzzy-PID)controllers,showing that,in system step response tests,the fuzzy control system reduces rise time by 20.25%,decreases overshoot by 78.24%,and shortens settling time by 67.59%.In disturbance rejection experiments,fuzzy control achieves a 46.09%reduction in the maximum deviation,indicating stronger robustness.The Fuzzy-PID controller,based on table lookup,outperforms the standard controller significantly,showing excellent potential for enhancing the dynamic performance and disturbance rejection capability of the voice coil motor actuator system.

Online monitoring of gas-solid two-phase flow using projected CG method in ECT image reconstruction

Electrical capacitance tomography （ECT） is a promising technique for multi-phase flow measurement due to its high speed, low cost and non-intrusive sensing. Image reconstruction for ECT is an inverse problem of finding the permittivity distribution of an object by measuring the electrical capacitances between sets of electrodes placed around its periphery. The conjugate gradient （CG） method is a popular image reconstruction method for ECT, in spite of its low convergence rate. In this paper, an advanced version of the CG method, the projected CG method, is used for image reconstruction of an ECT system. The solution space is projected into the Kryiov subspace and the inverse problem is solved by the CG method in a low-dimensional specific subspace. Both static and dynamic experiments were carried out for gas-solid two-phase flows. The flow regimes are identified using the reconstructed images obtained with the projected CG method. The results obtained indicate that the projected CG method improves the quality of reconstructed images and dramatically reduces computation time, as compared to the traditional sensitivity, Landweber, and CG methods. Furthermore, the projected CG method was also used to estimate the important parameters of the pneumatic conveying process, such as the volume concentration, flow velocity and mass flow rate of the solid phase. Therefore, the projected CG method is considered suitable for online gas-solid two-phase flow measurement,