Speed Control of a Hydraulic Pressure Coupling.pdf

976 IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS, VOL. 17, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2012 Speed Control of a Hydraulic Pressure Coupling Drive Using an Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control Triet Hung Ho and Kyoung Kwan Ahn, Member, IEEE Abstract—In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode control condition of the accumulators. It usually varied from the mini- (AFSMC) was proposed for speed control of a hydraulic pressure mum to the maximum pressure and the selection of the values coupling drive. The AFSMC combined a direct adaptive fuzzy from the minimum to maximum pressure is based on a particular scheme and a fuzzy sliding scheme in a new structure to reduce the tracking error and the chattering of the control effort. The input application. nonlinearity of the secondary unit, the input dead zone, was taken In hydraulic pressure coupling systems, each secondary unit into account during the speed controller synthesis and analysis of was considered as a controlled plant in which the control input the stability of the closed-loop system. The stability of a system was was the electric signal into its discontinuous conduction mode proven from Lyapunov’s sense. Experiments were performed with (DCM) and the control output was its speed or position. The different controllers, the AFSMC, the traditional sliding-mode con- trol, and the PID controllers, and under different operating condi- operating pressure and the fluid flow were considered as the tions. Then, the experimental results were brought into compari- power source for secondary units. In addition, the mechanical son to evaluate the effectiveness of the AFSMC controller from the