Integrated energy saving and position tracking controller for the hydraulic lifting servo system

High energy efficiency and tracking accuracy are both vital for hydraulic lifting servo systems. However, the appropriate hardware configuration and its corresponding nonlinear controller is always a problem to be solved. To address this multi-objective task, an integrated energy-saving and position tracking controller is developed. Specifically, to reduce the substantial energy dissipation, a system configuration referring to the structure of the three-position-six-way valve is proposed. To ensure accurate tracking performance, a hybrid observer-based output feedback controller is developed. By doing so, the function of flow regeneration and the property of flow matching are achieved, and the tracking accuracy is guaranteed by using only position signal. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a common Lyapunov function is used to prove the stability of the multi-model system, and case studies are conducted to demonstrate the system performance.