Cascade control strategy on servo pneumatic system with fuzzy self-adaptive system

Servo pneumatic position control has gained considerable attention due to its superiority in improving the precision of automation and mechatronic systems. This paper presents the proposed cascaded fuzzy self-adaptive with proportional, integral, and derivative (CFSAPID) control strategy in providing an accurate rod-piston displacement as desired input with stable pressure in chambers. Unlike the conventional cascade strategy, the control law of proposed CFSAPID was designed based on the Mamdani-type fuzzy approach as a dynamic tuner to each stage in the proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controller that deals with the nonlinearity of servo pneumatics adequately. The bounder sector zone of Mamdani-type fuzzy was determined based on position and velocity states on servo pneumatic rod–piston, and the parameter was constructed to obtain the optimum gain parameters of PID in each stage. The proposed CFSAPID was verified using a pneumatic proportional valve with a double-acting cylinder dynamic model plant. Simulation and analyses were emphasized on steady-state error, difference in pressures of pneumatic cylinder’s chambers, hysteresis effect, tuning parameters convergence, performance criteria, and performance indices. The results show that the proposed CFSAPID controller was able to withstand the load disturbances, at variable input trajectory with a stable pressure in chambers at almost minimum hysteresis effect compared to the FSAPID and single PID controllers