Modeling of piezoelectric actuator for compensation and controller design

This work proposes a novel method for describing the hysteretic non-linearity of a piezoelectric actuator. The hysteresis behavior of piezoelectric actuators, including the minor loop trajectory and the residual displacement near zero input, are modeled by a set of hysteresis operators, including a gain and an input-dependent lag, as well as the parameter scheduling method. A hysteresis model, using the identified parameters, and containing only the dominant hysteresis operator, is presented herein. Based upon a simplified hysteresis model, tracking is controlled to reduce the non-linear effects in the characteristics of the piezoelectric actuator. A proportional-integral (PI) controller, with inverse model feed-forward, suppresses the tracking error to within ±1% full span range (FSR) of the actuator, noticeably improving the tracking performance of the piezoelectric actuator.