Electrohydraulic force control design of a hardware-in-the-loop load emulator using a nonlinear QFT technique

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• 作者：Mark Karpenko¹ ; Nariman Sepehri ; ^{nariman@cc.umanitoba.ca}
• 关键词：Hydraulic actuators ; Force control ; Quantitative feedback theory ; Hardware-in-the-loop simulator ; Equivalent time-varying frequency response functions
• 刊名：Control Engineering Practice
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：43_09670661
• 类别：et
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：20
• 期：6
• 页码：598-609
• 文件大小：3251 K

摘要

This paper presents the design of a robust force control system for an electrohydraulic load emulator utilized as part of a hardware-in-the-loop flight simulation experiment. In this application, the force controlled hydraulic actuator is used to artificially recreate in-service loads upon a second hydraulic flight actuator operated in closed-loop position control. Electrohydraulic force control is more difficult than electrohydraulic position tracking because the load dynamics influence the force transfer function in a way that makes it challenging to develop an accurate force tracking system using simple feedback control. Nonlinear quantitative feedback theory (QFT) is applied in this paper to address this issue. First, an effective and robust feedback controller is designed by nonlinear QFT to desensitize the force control loop to nonlinear servovalve flow/pressure effects and typical system uncertainties. A secondary compensator is also designed within the QFT framework to extend the force tracking bandwidth with respect to the load motion. Experiments demonstrate acceptable force tracking performance within the scope of a representative flight-simulation experiment.