Ys. Jeon et al., Optimization of the control parameters of a pneumatic servo cylinder driveusing genetic algorithms, CON ENG PR, 6(7), 1998, pp. 847-853
Genetic algorithms are applied here to optimize the control gains of a thre
e-loop controller for a pneumatic servo cylinder drive. The three-loop cont
roller has position, velocity, and acceleration feedback gain, all of which
have formerly been manually tuned. A general procedure for optimizing the
control parameters of fluid power systems by using genetic algorithms is pr
esented. It is shown that, by using minimum information specific to the sys
tem, near-optimal values of the control gains can be obtained within 10 gen
erations. It is also shown that the numerical values of both the optimal ve
locity and the acceleration gain tend to increase as either the load mass o
r reference position increases, when the optimal position gain is fixed at
a constant value. The optimized gains are confirmed by a plot of the fitnes
s distribution defined in this study, which represents the control performa
nce of the system in a given gain space. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Sci
ence Ltd. All rights reserved.