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http://dx.doi.org/10.5307/JBE.2009.34.5.331

Position Control System of a Double-end Rod Hydraulic Cylinder under Variable Flow Rate and Load Conditions  

Kim, Dae-Cheol (R&D center, Tongyang Moolsan Co., LTD.)
Kim, Dong-Hwa (Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Lee, Jae-Kyu (R&D center, Tongyang Moolsan Co., LTD.)
Shin, Beom-Soo (Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of Biosystems Engineering / v.34, no.5, 2009 , pp. 331-341 More about this Journal
Abstract
A double-end rod hydraulic cylinder is widely used with a steering valve for the steering control system in large tractors. For the development of automatic steering controller, the feasibility of using a proportional control valve replacing the conventional manual steering valve to control the position of hydraulic steering cylinder was investigated in terms of the max. overshoot, the steady-state error and the rise time. A simulation model for the electrohydraulic steering system with load using AMESim package was developed to be valid so that the proper control algorithm could be chosen through the computer simulation. It could be concluded that the P-control algorithm was sufficient to control the electrohydraulic steering system, where the control frequency should be no greater than 20 Hz at the P-gain of 5. In particular, the performance of the developed steering controller was satisfactory even at the conditions of varying flow rates and loads.
Keywords
Position control; E/H steering system; Proportional control valve; Steering controller;
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