Modeling and control of conducting polymer based tri-layer transducer

In this paper, a model to describe the electrochemomechanical behavior of conducting polymer (CP) based tri-layer transducer is proposed. This model will be used for simulation, control and estimation purposes. Energetic Macroscopic Representation (EMR) has been investigated in order to provide a displacement estimator and an inversion-based control for position feedback of the CP based actuator (CPBA). This work is illustrated with experimental and simulation results.