Modeling and self-tuning pressure regulator design for pneumatic-pressure–load systems

Abstract This paper presents a dynamic model and a design method for an accurate self-tuning pressure regulator for pneumatic-pressure–load systems that have some special characteristics such as being nonlinear and time-varying. A mathematical model is derived, which consists of a chamber continuity equation, an orifice flow equation and a force balance equation of the spool. Based on a theoretical analysis of the system dynamics, a three-order controlled auto-regressive moving average (CARMA) model is used to describe the practical pressure–load systems. Then a linear quadratic Gaussian self-tuning pressure regulator is designed to realize an adaptive control of pressure in the chamber. Because the system parameters are time-varying and the system states are difficult to detect, the recursive forgetting factor least-squares algorithm and the Kalman filtering method are adopted to estimate the system parameters and the system states. Experimental results show that the proposed self-tuning pressure regulator can be adapted to parameters which vary with such factors as the volume of the chamber and the setting pressure and that better dynamic and static performances can be obtained.

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