PID PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION USING PSO TECHNIQUE FOR NONLINEAR ELECTRO HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR

Abstract

Electro-hydraulic actuator (EHA) system inherently suffers from uncertainties, nonlinearities and time- varying in its model parameters which cause the modeling and controller designs are more complicated. Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control scheme has been proposed and the main problem with its application is to tune the parameters to its optimum values. This study will look into an optimization of PID parameters using particle swarm optimization (PSO). Simulation study has been done in Matlab and Simulink.