Increasingly, governments are passing stringent laws on the use of environmentally damaging substances, and the success of alternative fluids has been short lived as the limitations of each has become evident which will ultimately result in their redundancy. History has shown that water is a more than viable fluid for use in hydraulic machinery, taking the place of oil and competing favourably with other power media. This paper details the development of a MATLAB-based computer simulation of the dynamic operation of a water hydraulic actuation system used in the development of a reduced rule self-organizing fuzzy logic control system.
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