Actuators like piezoelectric, magnetostrictive and shape memory alloy are gaining
importance in applications involving high frequency, high precision and yet compactness is …

Actuators using advance materials like piezoelectric and shape memory alloy are gaining
popularity in applications involving high frequency, high precision and also when there's a …

Smart actuators such as magneto-restrictive actuators, shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators,
and piezoceramic actuators exhibit different hysteresis loops. In this paper, a generalized …

Hysteresis of a piezoelectric actuator is rate dependent. Most hysteresis models are based
on elementary rate independent operators and are not suitable for modeling actuator …

The Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI) model is widely utilized in hysteresis modeling and compensation
of piezoelectric actuators. For systems with rate-independent hysteresis, the inverse PI …

Piezoelectric drive mechanisms consist of piezoelectric materials that actuate the
mechanism at different ranges of frequency, as the piezoelectric actuators are subjected to a …

Hysteresis poses a significant challenge for the modelling and control of smart material-
based actuators. The Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI) operator-based model has been a popular …

Piezoelectric actuators are widely used in micromanipulation and miniature robots due to
their rapid response and high repeatability. The piezoelectric actuators often have undesired …

Hysteresis nonlinearities are inherently exhibited in smart material based actuators. Many
hysteresis models have been proposed in the literature to describe such hysteresis …

Piezoelectric actuators can offer high resolution of displacement and this makes them
suitable for precise driving tasks. However, most piezoelectric actuators are made of …