Design and Simulation of PD and PID Controller for Hybrid Actuator

Abstract

The development of new and more effective methods of

hybrid actuator is more and more increasingly done to produce

optimal efficiency and performance outputs. In this paper, the

system architecture and control of a new hybrid system which is

the combination of the motion of DC motor and pneumatic motor

transmitting power through a set of gear box to the output shaft is

proposed. The classical controllers of PD and PID controller were

applied to the rotational speed control of the proposed system.

The MATLAB simulation is employed to investigate and evaluate

the system performance when applying PD and PID controllers.

Each type of speed controller was tested at no-load situation.

Simulation results have shown that PD and PID controllers have

given the similarly performance output but they are not good

enough since both the DC motor and pneumatic motor runs at

the different speed.