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Active Force Control of Electro-Hydraulic Hybrid Load Simulator using Quantitative Feedback Theory  

Yoon, Joo-Hyeon (Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Univ. of Ulsan)
Ahn, Kyoung-Kwan (School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Univ. of Ulsan)
Truong, Dinh Quang (Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Univ. of Ulsan)
Jo, Woo-Geun (Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Univ. of Ulsan)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering / v.26, no.2, 2009 , pp. 45-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Today, reduction of $CO_2$ exhaustion gas for global-warming prevention becomes important issues in all industrial fields. Hydraulic systems have been widely used in industrial applications due to high power density and so on. However hydraulic pump is always being operated by engine or electric motor in the conventional hydraulic system. Therefore most of the conventional hydraulic system is not efficient system. Recently, an electro-hydraulic hybrid system, which combines electric and hydraulic technology in a compact unit, can be adapted to a wide variety of force, speed and torque requirements. In the electro-hydraulic hybrid system, hydraulic pump is operated by electric motor only when hydraulic power is needed. Therefore the electro-hydraulic system can reduce the energy consumption drastically when compared to the conventional hydraulic systems. This paper presents a new kind of hydraulic load simulator which is composed of electro-hydraulic hybrid system. Disturbances in the real working condition make the control performance decrease or go bad. QFT controller is designed to eliminate or reduce the disturbance and improve the control performance of the electro-hydraulic load simulator. Experimental results show that the proposed controller is verified to apply for electro-hydraulic hybrid system with varied external disturbances.
Keywords
Quantitative Feedback Theory; Hydraulic; Load Simulator; Hybrid Actuator; Robust Control;
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