In order to design a low-cost pneumatic force servo system with large output forces,a scheme of a booster cylinder controlled by high speed solenoid valves is proposed.A nonlinear model of the system is established,in...In order to design a low-cost pneumatic force servo system with large output forces,a scheme of a booster cylinder controlled by high speed solenoid valves is proposed.A nonlinear model of the system is established,in which the hysteresis of high speed solenoid valve is considered.In order to deal with parameter uncertainty and disturbances of noise and friction,a feed-forward control method based on a disturbance observer is proposed.A practical pneumatic force servo system is used to testify the feasibility of the proposed controller.The experimental results show that pneumatic force servo system based on the proposed controller has high force tracking accuracy and quick response.展开更多
Rotary pneumatic actuators that are made out of linear one are always best suited for exoskeleton joint actuation due to its inherent power to weight ratio. This work is a modified version of knee actuation system tha...Rotary pneumatic actuators that are made out of linear one are always best suited for exoskeleton joint actuation due to its inherent power to weight ratio. This work is a modified version of knee actuation system that has already been developed and major modifications are made in order to make it more suitable for human wearing and also to reduce its bulkiness and complexity. The considered actuator system is a rotary actuator where a pulley converts the linear motion of the standard pneumatic piston into the rotary motion. To prove the capability of the actuator, its performance characteristics such as torque and power produced are compared to the required torque and power at the knee joint of the exoskeleton in swing phase and are found to be excellent. The two-way analysis of variance（ANOVA）is performed to find the effect of the throat area valve on knee angle. The ANOVA shows the significant effect of the throat area variation on the knee angle flexion made by the proposed actuator. A relationship between the throat area of flow control valve, that is connected to the exit port of the direction control valve, and angular displacement of the knee joint has been formulated. This relationship can be used to design a control system to regulate the mass flow rate of air at the exit and hence the angular velocity of the knee joint can be controlled.展开更多
For a pneumatic actuator,precise positioning is difficult to obtain because of the compressibility of air and the static friction and Coulomb friction.This paper develops a nonlinear friction compensation scheme for p...For a pneumatic actuator,precise positioning is difficult to obtain because of the compressibility of air and the static friction and Coulomb friction.This paper develops a nonlinear friction compensation scheme for precise positioning of a pneumatic system.This Scheme is tested by simulation and experiment and is shown to be effective.展开更多
A control algorithm for a 3-RPS parallel platform driven by pneumatic cylinders is discussed. All cylinders are controlled by proportional directional valves while the kinematic and dynamic properties of the system ar...A control algorithm for a 3-RPS parallel platform driven by pneumatic cylinders is discussed. All cylinders are controlled by proportional directional valves while the kinematic and dynamic properties of the system are modeled. The method of adaptive robust control is applied to the controller using a back-stepping approach and online parameter estimation. To compensate for the uncertainty and the influence caused by estimations, a fast dynamic compensator is integrated in the controller design. To prevent any influence caused by the load applied to the moving platform changing in a practical working situation, the identification of parameters is taken as the initialization of unknown parameters in the controller, which can improve the adaptability of the algorithm. Using these methods, the response rate of the parameter estimation and control performance were improved significantly.The adverse effects of load and restriction forces were eliminated by the initialization and online estimation.Experiments under different situations illustrated the effectiveness of the adaptive robust controller with parameter initialization, approaching average tracking errors of less than 1%.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51375045)the State Key Laboratory Program of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems of China(GZKF-201214)
文摘In order to design a low-cost pneumatic force servo system with large output forces,a scheme of a booster cylinder controlled by high speed solenoid valves is proposed.A nonlinear model of the system is established,in which the hysteresis of high speed solenoid valve is considered.In order to deal with parameter uncertainty and disturbances of noise and friction,a feed-forward control method based on a disturbance observer is proposed.A practical pneumatic force servo system is used to testify the feasibility of the proposed controller.The experimental results show that pneumatic force servo system based on the proposed controller has high force tracking accuracy and quick response.
基金supported by the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP),India (NITC/TEQIP-II/R & d/2014)
文摘Rotary pneumatic actuators that are made out of linear one are always best suited for exoskeleton joint actuation due to its inherent power to weight ratio. This work is a modified version of knee actuation system that has already been developed and major modifications are made in order to make it more suitable for human wearing and also to reduce its bulkiness and complexity. The considered actuator system is a rotary actuator where a pulley converts the linear motion of the standard pneumatic piston into the rotary motion. To prove the capability of the actuator, its performance characteristics such as torque and power produced are compared to the required torque and power at the knee joint of the exoskeleton in swing phase and are found to be excellent. The two-way analysis of variance（ANOVA）is performed to find the effect of the throat area valve on knee angle. The ANOVA shows the significant effect of the throat area variation on the knee angle flexion made by the proposed actuator. A relationship between the throat area of flow control valve, that is connected to the exit port of the direction control valve, and angular displacement of the knee joint has been formulated. This relationship can be used to design a control system to regulate the mass flow rate of air at the exit and hence the angular velocity of the knee joint can be controlled.
文摘For a pneumatic actuator,precise positioning is difficult to obtain because of the compressibility of air and the static friction and Coulomb friction.This paper develops a nonlinear friction compensation scheme for precise positioning of a pneumatic system.This Scheme is tested by simulation and experiment and is shown to be effective.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51375430)
文摘A control algorithm for a 3-RPS parallel platform driven by pneumatic cylinders is discussed. All cylinders are controlled by proportional directional valves while the kinematic and dynamic properties of the system are modeled. The method of adaptive robust control is applied to the controller using a back-stepping approach and online parameter estimation. To compensate for the uncertainty and the influence caused by estimations, a fast dynamic compensator is integrated in the controller design. To prevent any influence caused by the load applied to the moving platform changing in a practical working situation, the identification of parameters is taken as the initialization of unknown parameters in the controller, which can improve the adaptability of the algorithm. Using these methods, the response rate of the parameter estimation and control performance were improved significantly.The adverse effects of load and restriction forces were eliminated by the initialization and online estimation.Experiments under different situations illustrated the effectiveness of the adaptive robust controller with parameter initialization, approaching average tracking errors of less than 1%.
