Force control of a highly inertial specimen.

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Force control of a highly inertial specimen.

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Saari, Byron John

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2010-05

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Many servo-hydraulic control applications require high bandwidth realtime force tracking. Some specimen dynamics greatly limit the force bandwidth obtainable with standard PID loops. In these cases, the force control bandwidth is much lower than its position control counterpart. When the specimen includes resonant modes in the frequency range of interest, these resonant poles result in complex zeros in the open loop transfer function, which adversely affect the loop shape. These low frequency complex zeros are a consequence of the “highly inertial specimen” characteristics where the frequency of the zeros is inversely proportional to the square root of the mass. This paper presents a servo-hydraulic model to study this problem and design control laws which are implemented on an experimental test bench. An evaluation of a dynamic inversion controller shows a lack in robustness to model uncertainties. Included in this paper is the design of an H-infinity loop shaping controller which exhibits high gain disturbance rejection and robust stability with an order of magnitude improvement in the force reference tracking bandwidth. The controller also includes an inverse model prefilter, which increases the force reference tracking bandwidth higher than the displacement control (without pre-filter) tracking bandwidth.

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Highly inertial specimen

Resonant modes

H-infinity loop

Loops

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Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. May 2010. Major:Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. Advisor: Gary Balas. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 108 pages. Ill. (some col.)

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