Electronics for electro-hydraulic actuation system

Abstract

The electro-hydraulic actuation system was designed and realized by INOE 2000 - IHP for Regional Air Services - Tuzla Airport. It is used on the Cabin Emergency and Escape Trainer CEET B732 for the Sea Survival School. The closed loop control system controller, that implements the actuation system functionality, was designed as a software application using dedicated PLC software tools. Common PLCs are not usually used in this kind of applications; the authors work consisted on finding ways to use them on electro-hydraulic closed loop actuation system. Addressing emerging applications with general purpose PLC is the novelty of authors work and the experimental results confirm the rightness of this approach.