This thesis addresses the issues of design and mathematical model identification of an advanced hydraulic system referred to as Electro Hydraulic Actuator (EHA). In the design part, insights into system design methodology are presented and used for the EHA prototype manufacturing. To get better knowledge of the system behavior, extensive open loop tests were performed. Test results are presented in the time and frequency domain, and it was concluded that system behavior is nonlinear. In the modeling part, a nonlinear mathematical model of the EHA is derived. Some of the unknown model parameters had to be identified experimentally by optimization. The last step in the system mathematical modeling was open and closed loop model validation using the experimental data. Proposed nonlinear mathematical model gives good correspondence with experimental data and can be used for system studying or controller design. Performed test show that the EHA system has high positioning accuracy (0.01mm), fairly high bandwidth (23 Hz with 20kg inertial load) and is easy to control. It shows significant benefits when compared to conventional hydraulic systems in the areas of control, efficiency and physical dimensions.

This book is the volume of the proceedings for the 17th Edition of ISER. The goal of ISER (International Symposium on Experimental Robotics) symposia is to provide a single-track forum on the current developments and new directions of experimental robotics. The series has traditionally attracted a wide readership of researchers and practitioners interested to the advances and innovations of robotics technology. The 54 contributions cover a wide range of topics in robotics and are organized in 9 chapters: aerial robots, design and prototyping, field robotics, human‒robot interaction, machine learning, mapping and localization, multi-robots, perception, planning and control. Experimental validation of algorithms, concepts, or techniques is the common thread running through this large research collection. Chapter “A New Conversion Method to Evaluate the Hazard Potential of Collaborative Robots in Free Collisions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Maintaining and enhancing the high standards and excellent features that made the previous editions so popular, this book presents engineering and application information to incorporate, control, predict, and measure the performance of all fluid power components in hydraulic or pneumatic systems. Detailing developments in the ongoing "electronic re

The goal of the present work is to study the internal parameters of an integrated electro-hydraulic actuator (IEHA) for robotic applications, as well as identifying the influence of each parameter on the behaviour of the system, depending on the specified task to accomplish. Compactness of IEHA makes it difficult to measure the internal variables of the system, such as micro-pump's leakage, and internal pressure drop, while it is important to study the effect of configuring the internal variables on the behaviour and energy efficiency of the system, before modifying the latter in future prototypes. Hence, development of a model of the actuator will help us identify the different issues of the system and propose new solutions to improve its dynamic behaviour. The effectiveness of the developed virtual model allows for quick and accurate evaluation of the internal parameters early in the design and development stage. The mechanism and dynamic equations of IEHA are presented. The actuator is simulated firstly by implementing the dynamic models in MATLAB-Simulink environment, and secondly in MATLAB-SimHydraulics. The different parameters and hydraulic phenomena that play a crucial role in the performance of the system are discussed. Optimizing these parameters improves the mechanical energy efficiency, volumetric efficiency, and response time of the overall system. The concept of energy storage and its implementation in the architecture of IEHA is presented. Examples of periodic tasks (jumping, walking) are used to show how a good energy storage strategy could make the actuator autonomous and smaller in terms of necessary hydraulic sources.