Analysis and optimal sizing of pneumatic drive systems for handling tasks
Energy savings and efficiency are declared aims of today’s politics. A large proportion of energy usage is related to manufacturing with its drive systems technologies. Especially pneumatic drive systems have a large savings potential – mostly often based on the fact that their compressed air consum...
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| Published in: | Mechatronics (Oxford) Vol. 59; pp. 168 - 177 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd
01.05.2019
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| ISSN: | 0957-4158, 1873-4006 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Energy savings and efficiency are declared aims of today’s politics. A large proportion of energy usage is related to manufacturing with its drive systems technologies. Especially pneumatic drive systems have a large savings potential – mostly often based on the fact that their compressed air consumption is a consequence of design, which in practice is usually done by system designers based on their experience. In this paper, we give a detailed system analysis, yielding promising optimization parameters. For the design optimization we then compare gradient-based strategies with a genetic algorithm, showing that the much more efficient gradient-based schemes are suitable for the application to pneumatic drives. Besides the usage of a standard interior-point optimization scheme, a discrete-value optimization approach is derived. The optimization results are applied to a three-drive setup, tested and validated with measurements – emphasizing the importance of optimization of pneumatic drives and the effectiveness of the discrete-value optimization. |
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| ISSN: | 0957-4158 1873-4006 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2019.04.003 |