Hysteresis linearization control of a novel hybrid vibration isolator

The undesired hysteresis exists widely in smart-material actuators, which significantly reduces the accuracy and response speed of the actuators. In this paper, the static experiment of our previously developed hybrid vibration isolator (HVI) employing piezoelectric actuator is implemented to choose appropriate preload of the HVI. The preload-dependent hysteresis of the HVI is also proved in the static experiment. To achieve the hysteresis linearization control of the HVI, two linearization methods named the feedforward linearization and feedforward compensation and PI feedback hybrid linearization control are presented, respectively, which are based on the Bouc-Wen model and corresponding parameter identification model. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed linearization controllers for the HVI, the experiments are implemented. The experiment results demonstrate that both linearization controllers for the HVI can linearize the hysteresis characteristics and improve the HVI control accuracy. In addition, the feedforward compensation and PI feedback hybrid linear controller can achieve higher linearity than feedforward compensation controller.