Feedback Linearization Control of a Hydraulic Servo System

This paper suggests a hydraulic servo system with a linear controller using feedback linearization. Feedback linearization technique is applied to overcome the non-linearities of the system. The authors pay attention to simpler realization of the controller for the object system and prepare a controller with an additional compensator to recover the response time due to using the reduced order model. The control object consists of a hydraulic servo-valve, a servo-cylinder with an inertia load. The control performances of the control system with the newly suggested controllers and a conventional controller (designed based on a system model linearized around a specific operation point) are compared, and the excellency of the controllers proposed in this study is confirmed