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Repetitive control of an Artificial Muscle actuator


Abstract:

Electroactive polymers also known as `Artificial Muscles' are promising materials for actuation purposes in diverse application areas such as robotics, aerospace and biom...Show More

Abstract:

Electroactive polymers also known as `Artificial Muscles' are promising materials for actuation purposes in diverse application areas such as robotics, aerospace and biomedical systems. This paper investigates the dynamics of a polypyrrole conducting electroactive polymer actuator which is desired to track repeating reference commands. We propose a plug-in repetitive controller to improve the tracking performance of a conducting polymer actuator. The repetitive controller is implemented in cascade with a PI (proportional-integral) controller. The response of the system with repetitive controller is then compared to that of obtained by the implementation of the stand-alone PI controller. The experimental results show that the repetitive controller gives superior results compared to the PI controller and improves the tracking performance significantly.
Date of Conference: 23-26 June 2013
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 23 September 2013
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Conference Location: Istanbul, Turkey

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