Self-Tuning DC Servo Motor Design Based on Radial Basis
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Self-Tuning DC Servo Motor Design Based on Radial Basis
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS VOL.4 NO.2 ISSN 2165-8277 (Print) ISSN 2165-8285 (Online) http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jac/jac.html April 2015 Self-Tuning DC Servo Motor Design Based on Radial Basis Function Neural Network Abd-Elmeged mohamed 1, Gaber Elsaady 2, Ashraf Hemeida3, Asmaa Fawzy4* Pal and youssef [15, 16] proposed a simple self-tuning scheme for PI-type fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) for a real time water pressure control system and induction motor speed drive improvement. Zaky [17] proposed a self-tuning PI controller for the speed control of electrical motor drives and its parameters will be updated online depending on the speed error. Kota [18] used PID controller and fuzzy logic controller for control separately excited dc motor. Fuzzy self-tuning PID has better dynamic response curve, shorter response time, small overshoot, and small steady state error compared to the conventional PID controller. Fawaz [19] presented a simulation and hardware implementation of a closed loop control of a separately excited dc motor using a self-tuning PID controller. It gives very acceptable results in the reduction of overshoot, stability time and the steady-state transient response of the controlled plant. Saad [20] proved that the proposed Neural Network (NN) self-tuning PID controller is more efficient to control the robot manipulator to follow the desired trajectory compared to classical tuning method of PID controller. Alfonso [21] introduced a new self-tuning algorithm is developed for determining the Fourier Series Controller coefficients with the aim of reducing the torque ripple in a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM), thus allowing for a smoother operation. This algorithm adjusts the controller parameters based on the component's harmonic distortion in time domain of the compensation signal also [22] used NNPID like controller which is tuned when the controller is operating in an on line mode for high performance permanent magnet synchronous motor PMSM position control. In this paper a new technique is proposed that gives a good control for the dc motor. An online control algorithm is structured using the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). The dc motor parameters are estimated on line and are used to update the weights of the RBFNN. The weight update equations are derived based on the least mean squares principle. The RBFNN virtually models the inverse of the dc motor and thus the output tracks the reference trajectory. This scheme is exposed to several types of disturbances for wide range of operating conditions. The armature resistance and rotor inertia for the dc motor are varied due to the temperature deviation and also, take in account the changing of disturbance torque. The rest of the paper is organized as follow: In section 2 presents the proposed structure. The simulation results are presented in Section 3 and the conclusion is presented in section 4. Abstract—This paper introduces the inverse control design using neural network based self tuning regulator (STR) for control the DC servo motor. The controller is the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) and acts as inverse of the DC servo motor. The dc motor parameters are estimated online using the system identification method where uses the Auto-regressive moving average (ARX) model which depends on the input and output values of the DC servo motor. The difference between the output of the dc motor and the reference signal is used to adjust coefficients of ARX model. These coefficients of ARX are used to update the weights of the RBFNN. The weight update equations are derived based on the least mean squares principle. The speed output tracks the reference trajectory though the self tuning regulator (STR) structure exposed to different types of disturbances for wide range of operating conditions. Then compared its result with the result of using proportional-plus-integral feedback (PI) self tuning regulator. Keywords — STR, RBFNN, ARX, LMS, DC servo motor I. INTRODUCTION A daptive control schemes are used for the control of plants, where the parameters of the plant are not known exactly or slowly time varying. Some reasons for using Adaptive control such as variations in process dynamics and variations in the character of the disturbances [1, 2]. Enzeng and others [3] present a neural network based self tuning PID controller for autonomous underwater vehicle, the control system consists of neural network identifier and neural network controller, and the weights of neural networks are trained by using Davidon least square method, also[4]. Neural network (NN) is a good structure for control the nonlinear plants and has many types [5, 6]. Kumar [7] used neural network for modeling the retention process and as controller. In this paper, we used the RBFNN as a controller. This type is faster one and uses least number of neurons at hidden layer [8, 9]. The inverse control means that the controller (RBFNN) acts the inverse of the plant (dc motor) so the output tracks the reference input [10]. The DC motors have been extensively used in control systems. The main advantages of dc motors are easy speed or position control and wide adjustable range Therefore, DC motors are often used in a variety of industrial applications such as robotic manipulator, where a wide range of motions are required to follow a predetermined speed or position trajectory under variable load [11,12,13]. Sabahi [14] used a new adaptive and nonlinear control based on neural network approaches, this method has been named feedback error learning (FEL) approaches, that classical controller is used for training of neural network feedforward controller. II. PROPOSED STRUCTURE Figure (1) is the proposed structure. Autoregressive with exogenous input (ARX) is used to identify the dc motor and found the model. The model coefficients are updated online depending on dc motor parameters variation. These coefficients are fed the weight update block which trains the controller 1 Engineering faculty, Aswan university, Egypt; 2Engineering faculty, Assiut university, Egypt; 3,4Energy engineering faculty, Aswan university, Egypt * Correspondence to (e-mail: rashwan_asmaa@yahoo.com). 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS VOL.4 NO.2 ISSN 2165-8277 (Print) ISSN 2165-8285 (Online) http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jac/jac.html April 2015 whether RBFNN or PI controller using the least mean square LMS algorithm. Fig. 2: A general RBF network C. Single-phase full-converter drive The dc motor dynamic are given by the following equations: di (t ) (6) K w(t ) Ri (t ) L a v (t ) Fig. 1: Proposed self-tuning dc motor regulator structure A. ARX model The process is modeled by an ARX model [23], whose output is given by n m y (t ) ai y (t i) b j x(t j ) i 1 K m ia (t ) J (1) j 1 Or in terms of y (t ) b q operator (2) B. Radial basis functions neural networks A single input single output radial basis function neural network (SISO RBFNN) is shown in Fig. 2. It consists of an input node r (t ) , a hidden layer with n neurons and an output node x(t ) . Each of the input nodes is connected to all the nodes in the hidden layer through unity weights (direct connection). While each of the hidden layer nodes is connected to the output node through some weights w1 ,, wn . n0 (7) 2 D. Parameters estimation for self-tuning of RBFNN/PI The parameters of the DC servo motor model are estimated online and are used to update the coefficients of the controller (weights of the RBFNN / parameters of PI). The weight/coefficient update equations are derived based on a recursive scheme (least mean squares principle). This previous parameters are updated by minimizing the performance index I given by [9] (10) I 12 e2 (t ) (4) th ci is the center of i hidden layer node where i 1,2,, n0 , is the norm matrix and (.) is the nonlinear basis function. Normally this function is taken as a Gaussian function of width . The output x(t ) is a weighted sum of the outputs of the hidden layer, given by x(t ) wi ( r (t ) ci ) dw(t ) bw(t ) dt If the armature circuit of a DC servo motor is connected to the output of a single-phase controlled rectifier, the armature voltage can be varied by varying the delay angle of the converter, α, as [24]: 2Vm (9) Va cos for 0 0 r (t ) cn0 r (t ) c1 d 1 2 a Fig. 3: The block diagram of the dc motor Each neuron finds the distance d of the input and its center and passes the resulting scalar through nonlinearity. So the output of the hidden neuron is given by [8, 20] 2 (3) (d ) exp( 12 d 2 ) exp( 12 r (t ) ci ) 2 dt Where w, va , ia , R, L, b, J , K m and K b the rotor speed, terminal voltage, armature current, armature resistance, armature inductance, damping constant, rotor inertia, torque constant and back emf constant, respectively. Fig. 3 describes the block diagram of the DC servo motor 1 B(q 1 ) d q x(t ) A(q 1 ) a (5) e(t ) r (t ) w(t ) i 1 As we see the radial basis function (RBF) network utilized a radial construction mechanism. This gives the hidden layer parameters of RBF networks a better interpretation than for the multilayer perceptron network MLP, and therefore allows new, faster training methods. (11) Where r (t ) is the reference input signal and w(t ) is the output speed of the DC motor model. The coefficients of the ARX model and the weights of the RBFNN/parameters of the PI are updated in the negative direction of the gradient as, I (12) ( K 1) ( K ) ( K ) W ( K 1) W ( K ) I W ( K ) PI ( K 1) PI ( K ) 2 I PI ( K ) (13) (14) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS VOL.4 NO.2 ISSN 2165-8277 (Print) ISSN 2165-8285 (Online) http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jac/jac.html Where a1 a n b1 bm is the parameter vector, is the weight vector for RBFNN, W w1 w2 wn 0 300 t 400 , where the disturbance torque has the range Td 1.5 for good performance. The previous mentioned disturbances are applied synchronized. Fig. 8 presents the output signal in this case, Fig. 8 when R 10 Ω, at and Td 1 N.m J 0.05 Kg.m2 t 300 at 300 t 400 . The speed of DC servo motor has high noise at the trajectory in the period time where all disturbances occurred together. The proposed PI self-tuning regulator (STR) structure exposed to different disturbances as previous counterpart. Fig. 9 shows the efficient response of the proportional-integral (PI) to the square input and the error signal between the reference and the PI self tuning output without disturbance which the tracking error of RBFNN controller is less than it. Figure 10 shows the effect of the armature resistance fluctuation at maximum value R=15Ω at specified period t 300 , where the resistance has the range 2 R 15 . The output system mimics the trajectory exactly until the armature resistance became 15 Ω. But the error between the response of the system and the reference signal is not smaller than radial basis regulator. Figure 11 shows the effect of variance for the rotor inertia at specified period t 300 . The speed of the dc drive follows the excitation signal but with the tracking error greater than RBFNN tracking error; however, the ARX model parameters value fluctuate sharply and this is not good. Fig. 12 illustrates the efficient output while this disturbance reaches to maximum value Td 1.7 N.m at specified period 300 t 400 , where the disturbance torque has the range Td 1.7 give good DC servo motor speed with small square error. The previous mentioned disturbances are applied synchronized. Fig. 13 presents the output signal in this case, Fig. 13 when R 3 Ω, J 0.03 Kg.m 2 at t 300 and PI k p ki vector for the parameters proportional-integral (PI) and is the learning parameter. The variable K is used to show the iteration number of training. Keeping the regressions of the variables in the system in a regression vector as (t ) w(t 1) w(t n) Va (t d ) Va (t m d ) and finding partial derivatives. I 1 e 2 (t ) (15) 2 (16) e(t ) (r (t ) w(t )) e(t ) 1 n r (t ) a1q an q w(t ) b1q 1 bm q m q dVa (t ) I e(t ) (t ) The final parameter update equation will be, April 2015 (17) (18) ( K 1) ( K ) e(t ) (t ) (19) The partial derivatives for the weights are derived as follows, I (20) e(t ) B(q 1 )q d (t ) W The final weight update equation will be, (21) W ( K 1) W ( K ) e(t ) B(q 1 )q d (t ) But the final coefficients update equation of PI will be, PI ( K 1) PI ( K ) e(t ) B(q 1 )q d (22) (va (t 1) (t s 1)va (t )) t s is the sample time. III. SIMULATION RESULTS Td .3 N.m at 300 t 400 . The PI self tuning controller The proposed self-tuning regulator (STR) structure exposed to different disturbances as dc motor does in life. The dc motor meets to changing in its parameters due to increased temperature. This paper studies these variations where the motor model parameters are estimated online and are used to update the weights of the RBFNN at the same instant. Fig. 4 shows the efficient response of the RBFNN to the square input and the error signal between the reference and the RBFNN output, in the case no disturbance. The changing of temperature has an impact upon the parameters of a dc motor as an armature resistance and rotor inertia. Fig. 5 show the effect of variance for the armature resistance at maximum value R=14.8Ω at specified period t 300 , where the resistance has the range 2 R 14.8 . The output system takes the same trajectory until the armature resistance became 14.9 Ω. Fig. 6 show the effect of variance for the rotor inertia at maximum value J 0.08 Kg.m2 at specified period t 300 the output system has small tracking error but the parameters evolution turn into large values when the rotor inertia increases, so the inertia has the range 0.02 J 0.08 . In the life, we must take account of the disturbance torque. Fig. 7 illustrates the efficient output while this disturbance reach to maximum value Td 1.5 N.m at specified period doesn't work well with this kind of disturbance. In aspect of its small value versus the neural network gives bad result with big magnitude disturbance. a square wave input 2 0 -2 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 300 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 dc motor output rad/sec 2 0 -2 0 50 100 -15 5 150 200 250 the error between the input and the output x 10 0 -5 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 0 50 100 150 200 50 0 -50 250 time(sec) 300 Fig.4 Tracking trajectory for radial basis self tuning dc motor and the error signal 3 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS VOL.4 NO.2 ISSN 2165-8277 (Print) ISSN 2165-8285 (Online) http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jac/jac.html April 2015 square wave input and dc motor output 2 dc motor output and input 10 0 0 -10 -2 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 500 the error between the input and the output -15 2 10 the error between the input and the output x 10 5 0 0 -2 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 torque disturbance 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 350 400 450 500 N.m 0 50 -0.5 -1 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 0 50 100 150 200 0 5000 -50 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 time(sec) 300 350 400 450 500 -5000 250 300 (a) Fig.8 The effect of disturbances synchronized on the speed of radial basis self tuning DC motor system Fig. 5 the effect of variance for the armature resistance at t 300 at using radial basis case R 10 a square wave input square wave input and dc motor output 2 2 0 0 -2 0 50 100 200 250 300 350 400 450 0 50 100 the error between the input and the output x 10 250 300 350 400 450 500 300 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 0 -2 0 50 100 -3 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 6 1 200 dc motor output 0 -1 150 500 2 -3 1 150 rad/sec -2 x 10 350 400 450 1 500 150 200 250 the error between the input and the output x 10 0 -1 0 0 50 100 150 200 0 50 100 150 200 -1 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 50 -2 0 50 100 150 200 250 time(sec) 300 350 400 450 500 0 -50 Fig. 6 the effect of variance for the rotor inertia at t 300 at using radial basis case J 0.09 Kg.m 2 250 time(sec) 300 Fig. 9 Tracking trajectory for PI self tuning dc motor and the error signal a square wave input and DC motor speed output dc motor output and input 2 2 0 -2 0 0 50 100 -15 2 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 the error between the input and the output x 10 -2 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 0 -3 -2 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 1 500 the error between the input and the output x 10 torque disturbance N.m 0 0 -0.5 -1 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 0 50 100 150 200 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 -1 0 50 100 150 200 0 50 100 150 200 50 20 0 -50 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 250 300 0 -20 -40 Fig .7 the effect of variance for the torque disturbance at 300 t 400 at using radial basis case Td 1N.m 250 time(sec) 300 Fig. 10 The effect of variance for the armature resistance at t 300 at using PI case R 10 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS VOL.4 NO.2 ISSN 2165-8277 (Print) ISSN 2165-8285 (Online) http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jac/jac.html April 2015 IV. CONCLUSIONS In this work the RBFNN based STR is implemented for precise speed control of DC servo motor that updates itself online. Recursive least mean squares method is used for training the RBFNN controller or PI controller. The parameters ARX model chooses arbitrary then updates on line using recursive algorithm. From simulation result, the DC servo motor speed mimics the desired speed with smaller tracking error when using RBFNN than using PI. The changing of temperature is affected on the armature resistance and rotor inertia for the DC servo motor; also we take in account the changing of disturbance torque. The proposed STR structure exposed to all pervious disturbances separately and simultaneously. The adaptive RBFNN self-tuning regulator introduces a good solution for control the DC servo motor even if the model meets a different individual disturbances or synchronous disturbances. The RBFNN is a fast neural network compared with others type due to using least mean squares principle as training algorithm. Its structure has two neurons in hidden layer. In future work, can be used genetic algorithm to determine the parameters of the DC servo motor self tuning based on neural network or on PI. square wave input and dc motor output 2 0 -2 0 50 100 -3 1 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 350 400 450 500 the error between the input and the output x 10 0 -1 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 time(sec) parameters evolution 0 50 100 150 200 20 0 -20 -40 250 time(sec) 300 Fig. 11 The effect of variance for the rotor inertia at t 300 at using PI case J 0.06 Kg.m2 dc motor output and input 2 0 -2 0 50 100 -3 1 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 V. REFERENCES 500 [1] K. J. Astrom and B.Wittenmark. Adaptive Control. Addison Wesley, 1995. [2] Won Seok Oh; Kim Sol ; Kyu Min Cho ; Kyungsang Yoo ; Young Tae Kim. Self-tuning speed controller for induction motor drives. 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Designing Of ANN Based Speed Controller For Phase Controlled DC Motor. International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST), Vol. 3 No. 7 July 2011. April 2015 Asmaa Fawzy received B.Sc. of Electrical Engineering from Aswan Faculty of engineering, Aswan University in 2002. M. Sc. of Electrical Engineering from Assiut Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University in 2008 Gaber El-Saady was born in Egypt. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Assiut University University, Egypt, in 1982 and 1988 respectively and Ph.D. from, Assiut University, Egypt, in 1995. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering , Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 2000 Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering , Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 2006. Ashraf Mohamed Hemeida, was born in Elmenia, Egypt. He obtained his B.Sc., and M.Sc. in Electrical Power Engineering From faculty of Engineering, Elminia University, Elmenia, Egypt in 1992 and 1996 respectively. In Nov. 1992, He engaged Higher Institute of Energy, Aswan as Teaching Assistant. From 1998 to 1999 He was a full time Ph.D. student with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Brunswick, Canada. In Sept., 2000 He obtained his Ph.D. From Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut Egypt. From Oct. 2000 till August 2005 He was Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, Higher Institute of Energy, South Valley University, Aswan, Egypt. In Nov. 2005 He obtained Associate Professor rank. Dr. Hemeida is a full professor since July, 2011. His research interest power systems operational and control, artificial intelligence application in power systems, FACTS applications, voltage stability, and Advanced control Techniques in power systems. Professor Hemeida is a member of editorial board of ARPN journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 6