Journal article
Control of an IPMC soft actuator using adaptive full-order recursive terminal sliding mode
Actuators, Vol.10(2), Article 33
2021
Abstract
The ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) actuator is a kind of soft actuator that can work for underwater applications. However, IPMC actuator control suffers from high nonlinearity due to the existence of inherent creep and hysteresis phenomena. Furthermore, for underwater applications, they are highly exposed to parametric uncertainties and external disturbances due to the inherent characteristics and working environment. Those factors significantly affect the positioning accuracy and reliability of IPMC actuators. Hence, feedback control techniques are vital in the control of IPMC actuators for suppressing the system uncertainty and external disturbance. In this paper, for the first time an adaptive full-order recursive terminal sliding-mode (AFORTSM) controller is proposed for the IPMC actuator to enhance the positioning accuracy and robustness against parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. The proposed controller incorporates an adaptive algorithm with terminal sliding mode method to release the need for any prerequisite bound of the disturbance. In addition, stability analysis proves that it can guarantee the tracking error to converge to zero in finite time in the presence of uncertainty and disturbance. Experiments are carried out on the IPMC actuator to verify the practical effectiveness of the AFORTSM controller in comparison with a conventional nonsingular terminal sliding mode (NTSM) controller in terms of smaller tracking error and faster disturbance rejection.
Details
- Title
- Control of an IPMC soft actuator using adaptive full-order recursive terminal sliding mode
- Authors/Creators
- R.Z. Ekbatani (Author/Creator)K. Shao (Author/Creator)J. Khawwaf (Author/Creator)H. Wang (Author/Creator)J. Zheng (Author/Creator)X. Chen (Author/Creator)M. Nikzad (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Actuators, Vol.10(2), Article 33
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Identifiers
- 991005540805607891
- Copyright
- © 2021 by the authors
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Energy
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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