Robust adaptive control of conjugated polymer actuators

Yang Fang; Xiaobo Tan; Gürsel Alici

doi:10.1117/12.715755

5 April 2007 Robust adaptive control of conjugated polymer actuators

Yang Fang, Xiaobo Tan, Gürsel Alici

Proceedings Volume 6524, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2007; 652407 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.715755
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Conjugated polymers are promising actuation materials for bio and micromanipulation systems, biomimetic robots, and biomedical devices. Sophisticated electrochemomechanical dynamics in these materials, however, poses significant challenges in ensuring their consistent, robust performance in applications. In this paper an effective adaptive control strategy is proposed for conjugated polymer actuators. A self-tuning regulator is designed based on a simple actuator model, which is obtained through reduction of an infinite-dimensional physical model and captures the essential actuation dynamics. The control scheme is made robust against unmodeled dynamics and measurement noises with parameter projection, which forces the parameter estimates to stay within physically-meaningful regions. The robust adaptive control method is applied to a trilayer polypyrrole actuator that demonstrates significant time-varying actuation behavior in air due to the solvent evaporation. Experimental results show that, during four-hour continuous operation, the proposed scheme delivers consistent tracking performance with the normalized tracking error decreasing from 11% to 7%, while the error increases from 7% to 28% and to 50% under a PID controller and a fixed model-following controller, respectively. In the mean time the control effort under the robust adaptive control scheme is much less than that under PID, which is important for prolonging the lifetime of the actuator.

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Yang Fang, Xiaobo Tan, and Gürsel Alici "Robust adaptive control of conjugated polymer actuators", Proc. SPIE 6524, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2007, 652407 (5 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.715755

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Actuators

Polymers

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Ferroelectric polymers

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