Fractional Order PID Control of Railway Rescue Crane Leveling System

Aiming at the overshoot problem of electro-hydraulic position servo system used in the process of railway rescue crane hydraulic automatic leveling, and based on its characteristics such as big output power, high control accuracy, quick response speed, et al, this paper established the linear mathematical model of railway rescue crane electro-hydraulic automatic leveling system, besides, the fractional order PID control method was proposed based on the oustaloup digital filter algorithm and the working principle of fractional order PID control method was given, and then the fractional order PID controller was designed. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy, the MATLAB/Simulink simulation software was used. The simulation results show that the fractional order PID controller improved the speed of electro-hydraulic servo system unit step response and the capacity of resisting disturbance compared to traditional integer order PID controller, besides it can ensure the response without overshoot at the same time, so it meets the requirements for rapidity and no overshoot of railway rescue crane hydraulic automatic leveling system very well.