Tracking control of a piezoceramic actuator
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
12-1-1996
Abstract
The tracking control accuracy of piezoceramic actuators is limited due to their inherent hysteresis nonlinearity. This paper presents a computer-based tracking control approach for a piezoceramic actuator based on incorporating a feedforward loop with a PID (proportional integral derivative) feedback controller. The hysteresis nonlinearity of the piezoceramic actuator is modeled in the feedforward loop by using the classical Preisach model. Experiments were performed on a stacked piezoceramic actuator for tracking sinusoidal waveforms with signal frequencies ranging from 0.1-20 Hz. A comparison was made between a feedforward control scheme, a regular PID feedback control scheme, and a PID feedback control scheme with hysteresis modeling in the feedforward loop. The results show that the tracking control performance is greatly improved by augmenting the feedback loop with a model of hysteresis in the feedforward loop. The maximum error in tracking a sinusoidal waveform is about half that obtained using a regular PID controller. © 1996 IEEE.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Volume
4
Issue
3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Ge, Ping, and Musa Jouaneh. "Tracking control of a piezoceramic actuator." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 4, 3 (1996): 209-216. doi: 10.1109/87.491195.