Control of Linear Electric Actuator with Hybrid Fuzzy PID Controller

Abstract

In this study, the actuator, which converts circular motion to linear motion, is controlled with a smart hybrid controller. The model includes the analysis of electrical and mechanical parts. The controller, on the other hand, has a design methodology that cleverly blends classical PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) and fuzzy controllers. In this design methodology, classical PID and fuzzy controller have an error parameter dependent blending mechanism. In order to compare the performance of the hybrid controller, the coefficients of the classical PI and PID controllers were obtained by tuning and the coefficients with the best response were used. For performance comparison of conventional controllers and hybrid controllers; rise time, settling time, maximum overshoot and common performance indices values are used. The hybrid controller showed higher performance in terms of maximum overshoot, settling time, rising time and performance indices. The potential benefits of using a hybrid controller for the control of linear electric actuators were demonstrated by the fact that it performed better than conventional PID controllers on the majority of evaluation criteria.