Design of a Pressure Observer and its Application to a Low-Cost Pneumatic Control System

Takahiro Kosaki; Manabu Sano

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IJAT Vol.5 No.4 pp. 493-501

doi: 10.20965/ijat.2011.p0493

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Design of a Pressure Observer and its Application to a Low-Cost Pneumatic Control System

Takahiro Kosaki and Manabu Sano

Department of Systems Engineering, Hiroshima City University, 3-4-1 Ozuka-higashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan

Received:

January 21, 2011

Accepted:

March 28, 2011

Published:

July 5, 2011

Keywords:

pneumatic systems, pressure observers, position control, stiffness control

Abstract

The nonlinear pressure observer this paper presents for pneumatic systems and observer-based approaches for controlling position and stiffness eliminate the need for pressure and force sensors. The observer estimates pressure in the pneumatic actuator chamber, acting instead of a sensor in a pressure-feedbackbased system. Conventional single-loop controllers are inadequate for pneumatic actuators because such actuators have high nonlinearities such as air compressibility and friction. Most advanced controllers providing better performance require full-state feedback, and using sensors to acquire data makes pneumatic control systems less cost-competitive than electric control systems. Combining our proposed pressure observer with other observers enables a position and stiffness control system to be designed for a two degree-of-freedom pneumatic manipulator. Force caused in contact between the manipulator and an external object can be obtained without using force sensors. Experimental results show that our observerbased approach reduces cost, enables high estimation performance, and ensures high control accuracy.

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T. Kosaki and M. Sano, “Design of a Pressure Observer and its Application to a Low-Cost Pneumatic Control System,” Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.5 No.4, pp. 493-501, 2011.

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[13] [13] J. L. Shearer, “Study of pneumatic processes in the continuous control of motion with compressed Air-I,” Trans. of the ASME, 78, pp. 233-242, 1956.

[14] [14] J. E. Bobrow and B. W. McDonell, “Modeling, identification, and control of a pneumatically actuated, force controllable robot,” IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, 14-5, pp. 732-742, 1998.

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[16] [16] T. Noritsugu and M. Takaiwa, “Robust positioning control of pneumatic servo system with pressure control loop,” Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2613-2618, 1995.

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