A Study on Multi-Vehicle Control of Electro Active Polymer Actuator based on Embedded System using Adaptive Fuzzy Controller

Adaptive Fuzzy 제어기를 이용한 Embedded 시스템 기반의 기능성 고분자 구동체의 이중제어에 관한 연구

  • 김태형 (성균관대 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 김훈모 (성균관대 기계공학과)
  • Published : 1997.10.01

Abstract

In case of environment requiring safety such as human body and requiring flexible shape, a conventional mechanical actuator system does not satisfy requirement. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, a research of various smart material such as EAP (Electro Active Polymer), EAC (Electro Active Ceramic) and SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) is in progress. Recently, the highest preferring material among various smart material is EP (Electrostictive Polymer), because it has very fast response time, poerful force and large displacement. The previous researches have been studied properties of polymer and simple control, but present researches are studied a polymer actuator. An EP (Electostrictive Polymer) actuator has properties which change variably as shape and environmental condition. Therefore, in order to coincide with a user's purpose, it is important not only to decide a shape of actuator and mechanical design but also to investigate a efficient controller. In this paper, we constructed the control logic with an adaptive fuvy algorithm which depends on the physical properties of EP that has a dielectric constant depending on time.

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