A PI Controller with a Robust Adaptive Law for a Dielectric Electroactive Polymer Actuator

a new type-ii fuzzy logic based controller for non-linear dynamical systems with application to 3-psp parallel robot

abstract type-ii fuzzy logic has shown its superiority over traditional fuzzy logic when dealing with uncertainty. type-ii fuzzy logic controllers are however newer and more promising approaches that have been recently applied to various fields due to their significant contribution especially when the noise (as an important instance of uncertainty) emerges. during the design of type- i fuz...

Electroactive Polymer Actuator design for space applications

In order to achieve a distributed actuation in robotics and automation a novel soft actuator technology is being sought worldwide. One of the candidate technologies is based on Electroactive Polymers (EAP). The research to be done in the field of EAP actuators should cover four issues: material improvement, characterization and modeling, actuator design, and applications simulation. Advances on...

Electroactive Thermoplastic Dielectric Elastomers as a New Generation Polymer Actuators

PI Controller Design for Actuator Preservation

New explicit design relations for setting the controller parameters in PI control of industrial processes are proposed. The objective is to obtain proper transient responses with smooth control actions minimizing the variations of the controller output, hence preserving actuators from untimely attrition. The use of the proposed relations is illustrated by tests on real processes. Copyright c ©2...

A Robust Direct Adaptive Controller

Abstrucr-This paper proposes a new direct adaptive control algorithm which is robust with respect to additive and multiplicative plant unmodeled dynamics. The algorithm is designed based on the reducedorder plant, which is assumed to be minimum phase and of known order and relative degree, but is analyzed with respect to the overall plant which, due to the unmodeled dynamics, may be nonmi...