Control of conducting polymer actuators without physical feedback: Simulated feedback control approach with particle swarm optimization

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Xiang, Xingcan ^a   Mutlu, Rahim ^a   Alici, Gursel ^a   Li, Weihua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

actuators; intelligent materials; particle swarm optimization; PID control; sensorless control; simulated feedback control; system identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894254015     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/3/035014     Document Type: Article

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