Hardware Structures for High Precision Pneutronic Systems

Abstract

Pneutronic systems come with a series of advantages that are natural to working with compressed air, such as the large power/weight ratio of pneumatic actuators, easy and affordable installation and maintenance as well as being clean working systems. However, due to working with compressed air, there are a series of issues, such as static and transient nonlinear behavior, mostly due to the high compressibility of air. Thus, the behavior of such systems is hard to control, especially in terms of precision positioning. The paper deals with proposing three hardware configurations of pneutronic positioning systems in order to assure the imposed positioning accuracy in the presence of disturbances and the preservation in time of the obtained position.