Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Faculty
Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
16413
Abstract
The position control system of an electro-hydraulic actuator system (EHAS) is investigated in this paper. The EHAS is developed by taking into consideration the nonlinearities of the system: the friction and the internal leakage. A variable load that simulates a realistic load in robotic excavator is taken as the trajectory reference. A method of control strategy that is implemented by employing a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) whose parameters are optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed. The scaling factors of the fuzzy inference system are tuned to obtain the optimal values which yield the best system performance. The simulation results show that the FLC is able to track the trajectory reference accurately for a range of values of orifice opening. Beyond that range, the orifice opening may introduce chattering, which the FLC alone is not sufficient to overcome. The PSO optimized FLC can reduce the chattering significantly. This result justifies the implementation of the proposed method in position control of EHAS.
DOI
10.1007/s11633-013-0711-3
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Wonohadidjojo, D. M., Kothapalli, G. , & Hassan, M. (2013). Position control of electro-hydraulic actuator system using fuzzy logic controller optimized by particle swarm optimization. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 10(3), 181-193. The final publication is Available at link.springer.com here