Design of an Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator in Submarine Outboard Steering System

Abstract

With the development of “More Electric Aircraft†MEA, Power-By-Wire actuator has been more and more widely used both in military aircraft or civil aircraft flight control system. Meanwhile, in recent years there have been many experiment and applications of Power-By-Wire actuator on ship and submarine steering system. In this paper, a high performance Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator has been designed in order to meet the requirements of submarine steering performance. Then, AMESim, a complex system modeling and simulation platform of multidisciplinary field, has been used for the actuation system’s simulation modeling and to analyze the response of the system.