Research ArticleNonlinear robust dual-loop control for electro-hydraulic load simulator

- We propose a nonlinear dual-loop control scheme for motion loading system.
- The controller design become simple and easy of engineering implementation based on the presented method.
- We perform the nonlinear feed-forward compensation to decouple actuator motion disturbance.
- Besides actuator׳s motion disturbance, the friction problem and hard-to-model disturbances are also taken into consideration in this paper.

This paper investigates on the high performance torque control of electro-hydraulic load simulator (EHLS). In order to suppress actuator׳s motion disturbance, a nonlinear robust dual-loop control scheme is developed, which consists of a open-loop nonlinear velocity feed-forward compensator and a closed-loop nonlinear deterministic robust torque controller. The main function of the open-loop compensator is to decouple actuator׳s active motion disturbance, whereas the torque loop controller aims at guaranteeing the dynamics performance of tracking torque reference. Besides actuator׳s motion disturbance, both the nonlinearity characteristics and friction problem of the EHLS system are taken into consideration in this paper. The effectiveness of the developed method are verified through comparative co-simulations and experiments.