US3587602A - Flueric lag-lead circuit - Google Patents

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US3587602A
US3587602A US3587602DA US3587602A US 3587602 A US3587602 A US 3587602A US 3587602D A US3587602D A US 3587602DA US 3587602 A US3587602 A US 3587602A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F15—FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL
    • F15C—FLUID-CIRCUIT ELEMENTS PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR COMPUTING OR CONTROL PURPOSES
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    • F15C1/14—Stream-interaction devices; Momentum-exchange devices, e.g. operating by exchange between two orthogonal fluid jets ; Proportional amplifiers
    • F15C1/146—Stream-interaction devices; Momentum-exchange devices, e.g. operating by exchange between two orthogonal fluid jets ; Proportional amplifiers multiple arrangements thereof, forming counting circuits, sliding registers, integration circuits or the like
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/206—Flow affected by fluid contact, energy field or coanda effect [e.g., pure fluid device or system]
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/206—Flow affected by fluid contact, energy field or coanda effect [e.g., pure fluid device or system]
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    • Y10T137/2125—Plural power inputs [e.g., parallel inputs]
    • Y10T137/2142—With variable or selectable source of control-input signal

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  • lag-lead circuit which, when placed in series with the controlled system and its control elements, will insert into the overall system a lead time constant and a somewhat longer lag time constantvlf the controlled system contains a lag having a long time constant, the compensating lag-lead usually must have an even longer lag time constant.
  • time constant is defined by the product of a resistance and capacitance it is readily apparent that a trade off exists between the two.
  • the choices available are to (I) use a large series resistance with a practical size volume or capacitance which concommitantly results in a sacrifice of forward gain of the overall control loop, or (2) size the resistance to maintain the loop gain and use an exceedingly large volume to provide the capacitance required to generate a large lag time constant.
  • a further problem which can arise when a series means for generating the lag-lead function is used and the series resistance of the function generator is maintained at a relatively low level is that the lag-lead circuit can affect the characteristic of the control device which drives it.
  • One method of minimizing the secondary effect on the driving device is to place a resistor between the output of the driver and the input to the lag-lead circuit to effectively isolate the two from each other.
  • a lag-lead circuit in which the time constant is generated in the forward path, an added detriment to the forward gain of the control loop results.
  • a further object of this invention is to provide a lag-lead circuit in which the circuit dynamics can be isolated from the input thereto without adversely affecting the forward gain of the overall control loop in which the circuit is incorporated.
  • the invention is a lag-lead circuit comprising an operational amplifier having input and output means connected thereto and positive feedback means connecting the output means to the input means, the feedback means comprising at least two feedback resistors connected in series and a grounded capacitor connected to a point intermediate the two resistors.
  • FIG. I is a partially fragmented section view of a typical fluid amplifier
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the amplifier shown in FIG. I; I
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing of the flueric lag-lead circuit of this invention.
  • FIG. 4 is an electrical schematic showing the electrical analog of the flueric circuit of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of the circuits shown in FIGS. 3 and 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the attenuation versus frequency characteristics of the lag-lead circuit ofthis invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram of a process or apparatus control system in which the flueric lag-lead circuit of this invention is incorporated.
  • FIG. I a typical single stage fluid amplifier is shown which can be constructed in a well-known manner.
  • the amplifier comprises a base member 10 in which are formed the several passageways and cavities described below and a cover member I2 which is secured to base member 10 by adhesives, screws or other means so as to enclose the passageways and cavities in base member I0 and seal them from each other.
  • Base member 10 includes an inlet port I4 for supplying pressurized motive fluid, a power 'nozzle 16, an interaction chamber 18 at the discharge of power nozzle 16, control ports 26 and 28 disposed slightly downstream of power nozzle I6 and oppositely directed toward the power nozzle centerline, vent ports 24, and receivers 20 and 22.
  • a stream of fluiddischarged from power nozzle 16 will be recovered in equal proportions by receivers 20,22. If, however, a differential pressure exists between ports 26 and 28, the power stream will be deflected so as to provide a larger pressure recovery in one of ports 20, 22 than in the other of the ports, the pressure differential between the receivers 20, 22 being proportional to the pressure differential between the control ports 26 and 28. In this way, a small pressure differential between the control ports 26 and 28 may be amplified into a larger differential pressure between receivers 20 and 22.
  • Devices such as that shown in FIG. 1 may be used alone for such amplification or may be staged in series relationship wherein the pressure differential between the receivers 20, 22 of one stage provides the input to the control ports 26, 28 of a succeeding stage.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of the fluid amplifier shown in FIG. I.
  • the elements of the schematic illustration are numbered to correspond to the same physical elements shown in FIG. 1.
  • the control ports 26 and 28 are shown as resistors to represent the flow resistance of the actual physical control ports, the reason for which will become obvious from the discussion below.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the flueric lag-lead circuit of this invention which incorporates the fluid amplifier 11 described above.
  • the amplifier portion of the lag-lead circuit could comprise a multistage gain block which is constructed by cascading several amplifiers 11 as described above).
  • the circuit additionally comprises input resistors 34 and 36 which are interposed in input conduits 30 and 32, summing junctions 38 and 40 which combine the input fluid flows with the feedback fluid flows from conduits 46 and 54, conduits 42 and 44 which pass the combined input and feedback fluid flows to the control ports 26 and 28 of fluid amplifier 11, output conduits 66 and 68 which are connected to receivers 20 and 22 of fluid amplifier ll, feedback conduits 46 and 54 which were mentioned above, feedback resistors 48 and 52 interposed in conduit 46 and feedback resistors 56 and 60 interposed in conduit 54, capacitances or volumes 50 and S8 interposed in conduit 46 between resistors 48 and 52 and interposed in conduit 54 between resistors 56 and 60 (an equivalent capacitance connection is a deadheaded volume connected by a conduit to a point intermediate resistors 56 and 60), and a trimming resistor 62 which connects output conduit 68 with output'conduit 66. Also shown schematically are resistors 63 and 64, which represent the fluid flow resistance of receivers 20 and 22.
  • Resistors 34. 36. 48. 52, 56, and 60 are preferably laminar flow resistors which have a very nearly linear pressure drop versus flow characteristic. and may each consist of a long thin passageway such as a capillary tube or a small cross section rectangular passage through a block ofmaterial such as plastic or metal. However, orifice-type resistors may also be used.
  • Resistors 34, 36 are sized to have a value dependent upon several factors. among which are the degree to which it is desired to isolate the output of the device which drives the laglead circuit from the dynamics of the circuit itself and the steady stage gain desired.
  • Resistors 48, 56 are sized to have equal resistances which are somewhat large compared to the resistance R of control ports 26, 28 and the resistance R,, of the resistors designated 63, 64.
  • Resistors 52, 60 have resistance values R, which are equal to each other and may be larger or smaller than the resistance R, of resistors 48 and 56.
  • Capacitors 50, 58 have equal capacitances C and can be constructed merely by providing substantial cross-sectional enlargement in conduits 46, 54.
  • Resistance R, of variable resistor 62 may be provided, for example, by a parallel group of laminar flow fixed resistors and means for selectively including or excluding any group or several of these resistors in the parallel circuit.
  • the range of resistance for variable resistor 62 is chosen so that the lag-lead circuit may be matched within limits to the impedance of the load connected to output conduits 66, 68. Considerations required for such matching are developed below.
  • FIG. 4 the analogous electrical circuit for one side of the FIG. 3 flueric circuit is shown (the HO. 3 circuit is a push-pull arrangement and can be analyzed by analysis of only one side).
  • the elements resistances, capacitances, summing points, and leads
  • H0. 4 additionally includes a resistor 74 (denoted R,) to represent the output load on the circuit.
  • the FIG. 4 circuit may be defined functionally by the schematic diagram shown in FIG. 5 wherein the summing point shown corresponds to summing point 38 and wherein G,, G and H are defined by rl ll a b v or, obtaining the Laplace transform of the parameters to place them in operational form;
  • H(S) may be expressed as the product of a steady state term and a transient term wherein the steady state term is the DC gain of the element and the transient term takes the form (l+T,S)/( l+T S).
  • each of the terms G G, and H can be derived by considering the impedance to ground for each ofinput signal e,, error signal e,,, and output signal e
  • the path to ground for e is through resistor 34 and then through the parallel paths comprising resistor 26 on one side and resistors 48. 52 and capacitor 50 on the other side [point is considered ground with respect to e,- for purposes of analysis inasmuch as R, which leads back to interaction chamber 18 (see FIG. 1) and resistance R are in a real fluidic system much smaller than series resistance R,].
  • the path to ground for e comprises amplifier 11, fluid amplifier output resistance R, (resistor 64) and the parallel path comprising resistances R, and R, on one side and the feedback path comprising resistances R,, R,', and capacitance C on the other side.
  • the path to ground for e comprises resistances R,,, R and R, in parallelxwith each other and with the feedback path comprising resistances R,, R, and
  • the Bode plot of FIG. 6 can be constructed wherein the ordinate is frequency (the inverse of the time constant) and the abscissa is AP /AP, in decibels
  • the GH factor can be varied by varying the amplification factor A, as by varying the number of fluid amplifier stages and/or inserting additional resistances in series with resistors 62, 64.
  • FIG. 7 is included to illustrate use of the invention and facilitate explanation of its several advantages.
  • lt is a schematic representation of a feedback system for controlling a process or machine.
  • the letter 1 denotes an input representing the desired value of a controlled variable
  • letter denotes the controlled variable.
  • E denotes the signal representative of the error in the controlled variable.
  • the block labeled G,(S) represents the transfer function of the control hardware and response of the controlled system to corrective action and includes both steady state and transient terms, and the block containing the defined transfer function represents the laglead circuit of this invention.
  • An input steady stage gain labeled K, and a feedback gain H,(S) are also included.
  • the system to be controlled may have a characteristic such that the product [G,(S)] [H,(S)] contains transient terms which will make it necessary to provide a compensating circuit to render closed loop control ofthe system stable at useful low frequency forward gains.
  • a lag-lead network such as that described and claimed herein can provide the necessary compensation in series with the remainder of the system.
  • the lead-lag is utilized to increase the low frequency open loop gain, thus greatly improving the closed loop steady stage accuracy. If the controlled system contains 'a lag having a long time constant, the compensating lag-lead circuit usually has an even longer lag time constant.
  • time constant generating resistance is in a series path with the input, the choices available are to 1) use a large series resistance with a practical size volume or capacitance, which concommitantly results in a sacrifice of forward gain in the control loop, or (2) size the resistance to maintain an acceptable loop gain and use an exceedingly large volume to provide the capacitance required to generate a large lag time constant.
  • Applicant's invention avoids this tradeoff by generating the time constant in a positive feedback path where a large resistance can be used without reducing the steady state gain of the loop in which the lag-lead circuit is inserted and thus allows use of a reasonably sized volume for a capacitor.
  • Analysis has shown that for comparable types and numbers of components, equivalent circuit impedances, the same time constants and ratios between the lead and lag time constants, Applicants invention offers a 480021 capacitance volume advantage.
  • Applicant's circuit can amplify its input signal while providing a very large time constant by means of varying factors G H and l,, (see equations l3 above).
  • variable resistor 62 the purpose and effect of variable resistor 62 will now be developed.
  • the term R /Rrl-R/ is small compared to unity because in a real system R is made considerably larger than R,,.
  • the term R /R may have a value much smaller than unity, which results in a value of G5) which approaches A.
  • R /R could also have a value equal to or larger than unity, which results in G(S) having a value substantially less than A.
  • negative time constant the term R /Rrl-R/ is small compared to unity because in a real system R is made considerably larger than R,,.
  • the term R /R may have a value much smaller than unity, which results in a value of G5) which approaches A.
  • R /R could also have a value equal to or larger than unity, which results in G(S) having a value substantially less than A.
  • T /lG,,H, could result if the circuit is applied to a load which differs very much from the load for which it was designed, resulting in unstable operation of the overall control loop depicted by FIG. 7. Because in practice it is not always possible to accurately predict the load impedance on a circuit, or one may want to use the circuit with a load for which it was not designed, it is desirable to provide means of matching the circuit thereto.
  • Equation (6) When equation (6) is amended to include the effect of resistor 62, it approximates
  • the circuit can thus be designed to operate with R /R at a particular value which represents a safe underestimate of load resistance R and if R, proves to be higher than estimated, the value of G(S) can be tuned to the load by reducing Ry, thereby increasing R /R to a value sufficient to correct for the error in estimating R and maintaining operation of the overall control loop at the design value for G(S).
  • R /R a particular value which represents a safe underestimate of load resistance R and if R, proves to be higher than estimated
  • the value of G(S) can be tuned to the load by reducing Ry, thereby increasing R /R to a value sufficient to correct for the error in estimating R and maintaining operation of the overall control loop at the design value for G(S).
  • a lag-lead circuit comprising: an operational amplifier, said amplifier having inherent internal impedance reflect at its input connection; input means connected to the amplifier input connection; output means connected to the output of said amplifier; and positive feedback means connecting said output means to said input means, said feedback means comprising a grounded capacitor whose ungrounded terminal is connected to said output means through a first resistor and to said input means through a second resistor, said second resistor having a resistance larger than said amplifier internal impedance and thereby isolating the said capacitor from both said input means and said input connection to provide a circuit having both lag and lead terms.
  • said operational amplifier comprises fluid amplifier means having at least one stage of amplification, said internal impedance comprising the resistance to fluid flow of the control ports of the first stage of amplification, said input connection comprising a connection to said control ports; said input means comprise a pair of input conduits, each of which is connected to a said input connection and is adapted for connection to an external fluid source; said output means comprise a pair of conduits; each of which is connected to an output receiver of said fluid amplifier means and is adaptedfor connection to an external load device; and said feedback means comprises a feedback conduit connecting each said output conduit with its corresponding input conduit to provide a positive feedback, each said feedback conduit including a said first and second resistor and a said grounded capacitor connected to a point intermediate said first and second resistors.
  • capacitor toground comprises a deadheaded volume and a conduit connecting said volume to said feedback conduit at a point intermediate said resistors, each said capacitor having the same capacitance.
  • each said capacitor comprises a volume interposed in each feedback conduit between said resistors.
  • said input means includes a fluid input resistor interposed in each said input conduit upstream of the connection between said input conduit and said feedback conduit, the resistors having equal flow resistances.

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