抄録
An electro-conjugate fluid (ECF) is a kind of dielectric fluid which generates a powerful flow when subjected to high DC voltage. The ECF is a promising micro fluid power source (an ECF pump) for actuators including artificial muscles, bellows actuators etc. For today control of these actuators has not been investigated well. In almost all ECF researches, ECF actuators have been controlled only by ON/OFF control except the research reporting PD control for ECF artificial muscle. In the research the gains of controller are determined just by experiment. Thus a control system designed by the control model has yet been developed for ECF actuators. In this research we propose the control model of the ECF pump. By using this model, we develop a bellows actuator control system for ECF pump to realize good response.
