Servo Control of Pneumatic Systems: Fluid Power
Servo Control of Pneumatic Systems: Fluid Power
Servo Control
of Pneumatic Systems
Transparencies
31977-M0
A
FLUID POWER
SERVO CONTROL
OF PNEUMATIC SYSTEMS
by
the Staff
of
Lab-Volt (Quebec) Ltd
Printed in Canada
December 2004
Figure 1-1. Force control in robotic gripping applications.
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Figure 1-3. Servo Control Valve supplied with your pneumatic trainer.
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Figure 1-5. Circuit used to determine the pressure versus voltage characteristics of the trainer
Servo Control Valve.
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Figure 1-6. Output pressure versus control voltage curve of the Servo Control Valve.
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Figure 2-2. The RAMP GENERATOR section of the PID Controller.
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Figure 2-4. Ramp control of a pneumatic cylinder.
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Figure 3-2. The trainer Signal Conditioners module.
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Figure 3-3. Sensing the position of a cylinder rod.
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Figure 3-4. Positioning the cylinder and position transducer on the work surface.
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Figure 3-5. Open-loop control of cylinder rod position.
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Figure 4-1. Closed-loop control of cylinder rod position.
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Figure 4-3. Diagram of a controller operating in the proportional (P) mode.
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Figure 4-5. Typical example of what happens in the proportional control mode when the setpoint
is changed suddenly.
Figure 4-6. Manual reset consists in adding a bias voltage to the proportional controller output
signal.
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Figure 4-7. Error-versus-controller output relationship for two different gains.
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Figure 4-8. Proportional (P) control of cylinder rod position.
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Figure 5-1. Simplified diagram of a controller operating in the integral (I) mode.
Figure 5-2. Controller output signals with positive, negative and null errors.
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Figure 5-3. Output signal of an integral controller in the open-loop mode when the error changes
suddenly.
Figure 5-4. Effect of increasing the integral gain on the step response of a controlled variable.
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Figure 5-5. Simplified diagram of a controller operating in the proportional-plus-integral (P.I.)
mode.
Figure 5-6. Example of what happens in a proportional-plus-integral control system when the error
changes suddenly.
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Figure 5-7. Response to a step change in setpoint with proportional, integral, and proportional-
plus-integral control modes.
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Figure 5-8. Proportional-plus-integral (P.I.) control of cylinder rod position.
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Figure 6-1. Open-loop speed control system.
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Figure 6-3. Sensing the speed of the trainer Bidirectional Motor.
Figure 6-4. The trainer Proportional Control Valve, Air-Pilot Operated module.
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Figure 6-5. Photoelectric Switch Positioning.
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Figure 6-7. Open-loop speed control system.
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Figure 6-8. Positioning of the proportional control valve pilot
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Figure 7-2. Output signal of a derivative amplifier when the input signal changes gradually.
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Figure 7-3. Output signal of a derivative amplifier for two different derivative gains KD.
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Figure 7-4. Simplified diagram of a controller operating in the proportional-plus-integral-plus-
derivative (P.I.D.) mode.
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Figure 7-5. Example of what happens in a proportional-plus-integral-plus-derivative system when
the error changes suddenly.
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Figure 7-7. Simplified diagram of the parallel configuration.
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Figure 7-8. Proportional-plus-integral-plus-derivative (P.I.D.) control of motor speed.
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Figure 8-1. Closed-loop pressure control system.
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Figure 8-3. Open-loop control of pressure.
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Figure 8-4. Closed-loop pressure control.
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Figure D-1.
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