Review on modeling and controller design in pneumatic actuator control system

Abstract

Pneumatic actuators are highly nonlinear characteristics and uncertainties make it difficult to achieve high performances. The objective of this paper is to present a brief overview of pneumatic actuators based on modeling and control strategies that has beenproposed by various researchers. Before the main discussion, some background information will be presented in a relation to pneumatic actuators. This review concludes with a short summary and discussion of modeling and control approaches of pneumatic actuators. The implication of this paper is for further improving the performance of existing pneumatic actuators.