Influence of the process design on the control strategy: application in electropneumatic field

This article proposes an example of electropneumatic system where the architecture of the process is modified with respect to both the specifications for position and velocity tracking and a criterion concerning the energy consumption. Experimental results are compared and analyzed using an industrial bench test. For this, a complete model of the system is presented, and two kinds of nonlinear control laws are developed, a monovariable and a multivariable based on the flatness theory.