Robust Control of a Hydraulically Actuated Manipulator Using Sliding Mode Control

This paper presents an approach to robust control called sliding mode control (SMC) applied to the a hydraulic servo system (HSS), consisting of a servo valve controlled symmetrical cylinder. The motivation for applying sliding mode control to hydraulically actuated systems is its robustness towards structured (parametric) and unstructured (unmodeled dynamics) uncertainties. A third-order model of the actuated system is used to develop a sliding mode control which is implemented and tested on a simulation model. To avoid measurement of velocity and acceleration a simple first-order model is furthermore used to develop a simple sliding mode control (SSMC). The performance of the two controllers are compared and discussed.