Modeling of hysteresis characteristics of the piezoelectric actuator using the bouc-wen model

Abstract

This paper discloses the development of the improved Bouc-Wen model which captures the behavior of the rate dependent hysteresis of a piezoelectric actuator. The basic form of the Bouc-Wen model only exhibits symmetric hysteresis loop for a sinusoidal input with no DC offset, whereas the real world bi-morph type actuator occasionally exhibits asymmetric loop for the same stimuli. The present works also proposes the integration of the FIR filter to the model to capture phase lag caused by the structural oscillation of the actuator. Comparison of the modeling accuracy has been given with our recent work of adaptive Preisach model. The result shows that accuracy of the two models are almost the same but the intrinsic difference lies in the number of parameters to be determined to form a computable model: the proposed model has only 25 parameters whereas the adaptive Preisach model includes 5050 discretized distribution function values to establish a single model.