Position control of a pneumatic levitation system

Author

Escano, Juan M. ; Ortega, Manuel G. ; Rubio, Francisco R.

Author_Institution

Depto. Electricidad y Automatica, Centro Tecnologico Altair, Sevilla

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Lastpage

528

Abstract

The position control of a pneumatic levitation system is described in this paper. The control system uses visual feedback to compute the object position, which can be modified by means of an air blower acted by a variable-speed drive. The system is employed as a test bed of control strategies. A performance comparison attained by a classical PID, a robust H_infin control law and a fuzzy controller is carried out, including tracking and disturbance rejection experiments

Keywords

H^infin control; fuzzy control; pneumatic control equipment; pneumatic drives; position control; programmable controllers; robust control; three-term control; PID control; air blower; control strategy; fuzzy controller; pneumatic levitation control system; position control; robust H_infin control law; variable-speed drive; visual feedback; Application software; Control systems; Fuzzy control; Levitation; Position control; Programmable control; Prototypes; Robust control; System testing; Three-term control; Pneumatic levitation; control applications; fuzzy control; robust control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Catania

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9401-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612568

Filename

1612568