The Distributed Parameter Model of an Electro-Pneumatic System Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles with PWM-Based Position Control

Lyubov Kotkas (), Anatolij Donskoy, Aleksandr Zharkovskii and Nikita Zhurkin
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Lyubov Kotkas: The World-Class Research Center “Advanced Digital Technologies”, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anatolij Donskoy: The World-Class Research Center “Advanced Digital Technologies”, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Aleksandr Zharkovskii: The World-Class Research Center “Advanced Digital Technologies”, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nikita Zhurkin: The World-Class Research Center “Advanced Digital Technologies”, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 14, 1-20

Abstract: Today, the analysis and synthesis methods of electro-pneumatic systems with position control actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are quite well known. In these methods, pneumatic artificial muscle is considered as an object with lumped parameters. However, the PAM is an object with distributed parameters, where the pressure, density, and mass flow rate of gas are varied along the bladder length. Thus, in the case of certain design parameters of the pneumatic artificial muscle and certain frequencies of the supply pressure, resonant gas oscillations affected by the wave processes in the bladder may occur. Thereby, in the PWM-driven PAM-actuated system, certain operation frequencies of the control pneumatic valve can cause oscillations of gas in the bladder and in the connected pipeline. These processes could lead to vibrations of the executive device. To solve this practical problem, a distributed parameter model of the PAM that takes into account the pressure fluctuations in the bladder and in the pipeline was elaborated. Also, in this work, a new method in which the wave processes are described by ordinary differential equations instead of partial differential equations was proposed.

Keywords: electro-pneumatic system; pneumatic artificial muscle; distributed parameter model; position control; PWM; resonant gas oscillations; wave processes; supply pipeline; ordinary differential equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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