Accurate positioning of pneumatic artificial muscle at different temperatures using LabVIEW based sliding mode controller

Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are difficult to control because of their highly nonlinear and time varying nature, thus robust control method is needed. Sliding mode control can be favourably used for accurate positioning of PAMs. In this paper the error of sliding mode control based positioning of a Fluidic Muscle at different temperatures is determined. The controller is developed in LabVIEW and the error of the experiments shows 0.01 mm.