Predictive Simulation Adaptive Control for Pneumatic Components

Today\´s component manufacturers in the pneumatic and fluid power component industries often deliver components without knowing how and in what environment they will be used. By integrating some level of self-awareness in the components, it would be possible for them to adapt to unknown and possibly changing environments. This could both reduce the number of custom designs and allow the system builder to monitor and use the components up to their absolute limits of performance. In this paper, a control strategy named "Predictive Simulation Adaptive Control", PSAC, is presented and introduced as an integral part of a framework to achieve some level of self-awareness in components. The concept primarily merges simulation techniques, selection schemes and real-time control into a model based approach.