Challenges and Perspectives in Control of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) Actuators: A Survey

Alvo Aabloo; Juri Belikov; Vadim Kaparin; Ulle Kotta

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007020

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Challenges and Perspectives in Control of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) Actuators: A Survey

Alvo Aabloo,
Juri Belikov,
Vadim Kaparin,
Ulle Kotta

Affiliations

Alvo Aabloo: Intelligent Materials and Systems Laboratory, Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Juri Belikov: ORCiD; Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Vadim Kaparin: ORCiD; Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Ulle Kotta: Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007020
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 121059 – 121073

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Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMC) are electroactive polymers expected to be used as soft actuators in various practical areas like robotics, biomedicine and micro manipulation systems. Though IPMC actuators have many advantages (lightweight, noiseless operation, low operating voltage, possibility of miniaturization), some of their inherent properties (back-relaxation, hysteresis, high sensitivity to ambient conditions, aging) make their precise and reliable control a challenging task. This paper presents a survey of control methods for IPMC actuators. A systematic overview of the techniques, addressing the main challenges in IPMC control, is provided.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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