The design of hydraulic control systems is a complex and time-consuming task that, at the moment, cannot be automated completely. Nevertheless, important design subtasks like simulation or control concept selection can be efficiently supported by a computer. Prerequisite for a successful support is a well-founded analysis of a hydraulic system’s structure. The paper in hand contributes right he...

The conventional hydraulic valve-controlled systems have high response but low energyefficiency. Hydraulic pump-controlled servo systems have high energy efficiency. However, the conventional pump-controlled systems, which are altered by displacement via variable displacement pumps, have lower response. This paper aims to investigate the force control performance of the high response electro-hy...

Hydraulic systems, as power source and transmission, offer many advantages over electromechanical or purely mechanical counterparts in terms of power density, flexibility and portability. Many hydraulic systems require touching and contacting the physical environments; and many of these systems are directly controlled by human. If hydraulic systems are passive, they would be safer to interact w...

In this paper, we consider the regulation of water level in open-channel hydraulic systems. We consider a LQ control problem for linear symmetric infinitedimensional systems. A state feedback control law is obtained part from the solution of a three-dimensional partial differential Riccati equation. The effectiveness of this control law is demonstrated in simulation when applied to the nonlinea...

A bstractThis paper presents a feedback linearisation approach to the control of electrohydraulicservo systems of a robotic excavator. The control system of the bucket hydraulic cylinder is used as a testbed. Simulation and experimental results are provided. The results obtained demonstrate the advantage of the proposed controller over conventional linearised controllers in dealing with nonline...

Hydraulic systems are widely used in industry because of the advantages of their small size-to-power ratios and their ability to produce very large linear force and torque. There are tendencies for compact electro-hydraulic systems which deliver powerful, linear movement having hydraulic oil circulation only when operating. This paper investigates directly driven hydraulic setup for non-road mo...

Passive systems possess the beneficial properties of ease of human control, and stable interaction with arbitrary passive systems. Motivated by these properties, our research has been directed towards developing passive hydraulic systems. A novel hydraulic element called the passive valve was first developed. The passive valve was used in single degree of freedom passive bilateral teleoperation...