Force Equalization for Active/active Redundant Actuation System Involving Servo-hydraulic and Electro-mechanical Technologies
Author | : Lijian Wang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:867545539 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Force Equalization for Active/active Redundant Actuation System Involving Servo-hydraulic and Electro-mechanical Technologies written by Lijian Wang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the way to more electric aircraft (MEA), more and more power-by-wire (PBW) actuators are involved in the flight control system. For a hybrid redundant actuation system composed by the conventional hydraulically powered actuators and the PBW actuators, one major issue while they operate on active/active mode is the force fighting between channels. As the grave influence of force fighting on accelerating material fatigue and increasing power consumption,it must be addressed with attention. This thesis was aiming at proposing some effective force equalization control strategies for the hybrid actuation system involving one servo-hydraulic actuator (SHA) and one electro-mechanical actuator (EMA). For this objective, the position controllers for SHA and EMA were designed and validated as a first step. Then, a virtual test bench regarding to the realistic behaviors was built in the AMESim simulation environment to accelerate the controller design and enable the robustness study. Following this, 2 static force equalization control strategies were proposed and experimentally validated. The first strategy hat introduced integral force fighting signal to compensate the actuator position control was proved a good candidate solution. In the next part, 3 dynamic force equalization strategies were proposed and assessed on the virtual test bench. Their performance sensitivities to the parameter uncertainties were studied through Monte-Carlo method. The first strategy that introduced velocity and acceleration feed-forwards to force the SHA and EMA having similar pursuit dynamics showed a good force equalization performance as well as good segregation and good robustness. In the end, the work presented in thesis was concluded and perspective was given to the ongoing work.