This article presents the development and control of a novel hybrid controlled vertical climbing robot based on Pneumatic Muscle Actuators (PMAs). PMAs are highly non– linear pneumatic actuators where their elongation is proportional to the internal pressure. The vertical sliding of the robot is based on four PMAs and through the combined and sequential contraction–extension of the pneumatic mu...

Conventional PID controllers have been widely applied in industrial process control for about half a century because of their simple structure and convenience of implementation. The implementation of PID controllers needs proper tuning of proportional gains, integral gains, and derivative gains of the controllers. Among the existing gain tuning techniques, the method proposed by Ziegler and Nic...

PID control systems have been widely employed in industrial processes. Recently, some data-oriented PID control systems have been proposed because it is difficult to adjust a set of suitable PID gains. In this paper, one of data-oriented PID control schemes, which is designed by using the generalized output errors, is proposed. The generalized output is defined from a PID control law. Moreover,...

an adaptive version of growing and pruning rbf neural network has been used to predict the system output and implement linear model-based predictive controller (lmpc) and non-linear model-based predictive controller (nmpc) strategies. a radial-basis neural network with growing and pruning capabilities is introduced to carry out on-line model identification.an unscented kalman filter (ukf) algor...

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is a non-linear, complex time-varying system. The control performance is not satisfactory in the traditional PID control method. Based on the combination of PI and fuzzy control, the controller of fuzzy self-adaptive PI was designed in this paper. The PID parameters can be set with fuzzy algorithmic approach automatically. Experimental results show that...

This paper presents investigations into the development of a linear matrix inequalities (LMI) based robust PID control of a nonlinear Two-Link Flexible Manipulator (TLFM) incorporating payload. A set of linear models of a TLFM is obtained by using system identification method in which the linear model represents the operating ranges of the dynamic system. Thus, the LMI constraints permit to rob...

Control of systems with time delay is difficult as compared to simple process control. Numerous parameters estimation techniques for the control implementation of non-linear systems with time delays are available in literature, but these techniques become cumbersome while tuning the system, due to complex calculation structure and wide ranges for tuning parameters. This paper describes and exam...

Active power filter continues to be a powerful tool to control harmonics in power systems thereby enhancing the power quality. This paper presents a fuzzy tuned PID controller based shunt active filter to diminish the harmonics caused by non linear loads like thyristor bridge rectifiers and imbalanced loads. Here Fuzzy controller provides the tuning of PID, based on firing of thyristor bridge r...

This paper deals with the tuning of controllers for complex nonlinear process like conical tank process. Control of conical tank presents a challenging problem due to its non-linear behaviour and constantly changing cross section area. The non-linear behaviour can be overcome by applying different controlling techniques. The proposed control strategy includes the tuning of PID controller using ...