An integrated approach for the realization of the real-time control in electro-hydraulic servo system

In industrial practice, for the designers and researchers of the electro-hydraulic servo system, it is desirable to boost the reliability of controllers, to shorten the design cycle of control algorithms, to simplify the modification of control algorithms during experiments and to shorten training period for operators. In this paper, we present a new, complete and integrated method based on the rapid control prototyping for the real-time digital control applied in electro-hydraulic servo system. The approach uses a collection of tools that include both software (LabVIEW and Matlab) and hardware (a host industrial computer and a target developed digital signal processor controller). An application example of the methodology, synchronous loading test system based on artificial neural networks, completes the discussion about the performance of the designed system.