PI Control of Proportional Valve-Cylinder Water Hydraulic System

Water hydraulic components have been developed rapidly in recent years. However many problems such as low lubricity and leakage limited the performance of them, especially water proportional valves. A proportional valve- hydraulic cylinder system with tap water as working medium is chosen as object to investigate the performance of water hydraulic system. With regarding to the weaknesses of the selected 4/3 proportional valve including lag, dead zone and nonlinearity, an integral separation PI arithmetic based close-loop controller is developed. Experiments results verified the electro-hydraulic proportional system of fast response speed and high accuracy.