Modeling and control of ionic polymer metal composite actuators: A review

L Yang, Y Yang, H Wang - European Polymer Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) is a new type of flexible electroactive polymer, which
has the advantages of fast response, large driving displacement, small elastic modulus and …

Review on the use of impedance spectroscopy for IPMC-like devices: application, models, and a new approach to data treatment

R Gonçalves, KA Tozzi, MC Saccardo… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Although efforts to model the electrochemical behavior of ionomeric polymer-metal
composite (IPMC) devices through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) have …

Challenges and perspectives in control of ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) actuators: a survey

A Aabloo, J Belikov, V Kaparin, Ü Kotta - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Nonlinear identification of IPMC actuators based on ANFIS–NARX paradigm

M Annabestani, N Naghavi - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) is a new smart material that bends in
response to a relatively low applied voltage. Due to its special properties such as low …

Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomer-based artificial muscle

ED Wilson, T Assaf, MJ Pearson… - Journal of The …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Electroactive polymer actuators are important for soft robotics, but can be difficult to control
because of compliance, creep and nonlinearities. Because biological control mechanisms …

Nonautoregressive nonlinear identification of IPMC in large deformation situations using generalized Volterra-based approach

M Annabestani, N Naghavi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are special smart materials that are biocompatible
and can be used in biomedical and industrial applications. Using previous samples of a …

Non-uniform deformation and curvature identification of ionic polymer metal composite actuators

M Annabestani, N Naghavi - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Modeling and identification of dynamic behavior of ionic polymer metal composites as a
widely used smart material is an inevitable work. In this article, unlike other conventional …

Fundamentals of ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs)

M Shahinpoor - 2015 - books.rsc.org
Ionic polymers such as polyelectrolytes in a nano-composite form with a conductive phase
such as a metal, a synthetic metal or a conductive polymer of carbon, graphite or graphene …

Fabrication of ionic polymer metal composite for bio-actuation application: Sputtering and electroless plating methods

MSS Mousavi, A Alaei, M Hasani… - Materials Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, Ionic polymer metal composites were fabricated for bio-actuation applications
using chemical electroless plating (CEP) and physical sputtering (PS) methods. To use …

A 3D analytical ion transport model for ionic polymer metal composite actuators in large bending deformations

M Annabestani, N Naghavi, M Maymandi-Nejad - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are a kind of soft electroactive polymer composites.
An IPMC strip commonly has a thin polymer membrane coated with a noble metal as …