Abstract
Piezoelectric Stack Actuators (PEAs) have been widely used in high-precision positioning system because of its fast response. However, under different excitation voltages and external loads with dynamic frequencies, the width and inclination of PEAs hysteresis curves verified correspondingly, and exhibit asymmetry phenomenon. The main contribution of this paper is to present a two-input asymmetric dynamic cross-coupled hysteresis (TADCH) model to describe the complex nonlinear hysteresis of PEAs in dynamic excitation and loading engineering applications. Moreover, we also develop the corresponding identification method of TADCH model. Finally, several experiments are carried out to verify the accuracy of the proposed model.
Introduction
Piezoelectric driving micro/nans-positioning systems, for instance, Nanocomposite [1], motion control [2], manipulators [3], and scanning probe microscopy [4], piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) always perform unsatisfactorily because of the complicated hysteresis phenomenon. Some models [5] based on physical physical microscopic mechanisms are proposed to eliminate or suppress nonlinear hysteretic behaviour. However, those methods cannot describe the piezoelectric mechanism well.
Experimental results demonstrate that the width of PEAs hysteresis loops widens with the increase of excitation frequency due to the existence of viscous effects. To solve this problem, rate dependent hysteresis models, such as the classical Preisach model (CPM) [6] and its modified model [7], and the improved Prandtl ishlinskii model (PI) [8], have been studied. The rate dependent, so-called dynamic models, are indeed more accurate than static ones [9]. Besides, the input-output curve of PEAs shows obviously rate and amplitude dependence due to the influence of external loads, which is called dynamic cross-coupled hysteresis. Several mathematical models, for describing the cross-coupled hysteresis nonlinearity of magnetostrictive actuators, were proposed. Among them, the most representative is the static coupled hysteresis model based on CPM.
Recently, based on CPM, lots of researches have been done on the formulas of static coupled hysteresis model [10]. Davino [11], developed a load-related model for magnetostrictive drive by employed the CPM model and the memory-less bivariate function. Also, for low-speed load applications, Zhang [12] proposed a weighted superposition model based on PI operator, which is called single side dead zone operator. However, there are few methods to describe the dynamic cross-coupled hysteresis characteristics of PEAs. The hysteresis representation, based on an intelligent algorithm, is also one of the main research branches at present. In reference [13], a double inputs dynamic model is established to describe the unknown cross-coupled effect of PEAs by using a multilayer neural network. However, this kind of model is not easy to integrate with the existing adaptive technologies, and it is difficult to realize the compensation of nonlinear system with unknown parameters.
Moreover, experiments also prove that the hysteresis loops of PEAs are not symmetric. Janaideh [14] proposed an improved PI model for characterizing hysteresis with saturated and asymmetric attributes in magnetostrictive actuators or shape memory alloys actuators by applying the two nonlinear envelope functions. By introducing an asymmetric backlash operator, an improved PI model [15] was presented. In literature [16], two asymmetric operators are used to describe the increase and the decrease of hysteretic curves separately. In addition, the Coleman–Hodgdon model [17] and the Bouc-Wen model [18] are often used to simulate the asymmetric hysteresis behaviour in PEAs.
The main motivation of this paper is the limited evaluation performance of the effect of dynamic load on PEAs hysteresis [19]. The purpose is to provide a two-input asymmetric dynamic cross-coupled hysteresis model (TADCH) to describe the complex hysteresis in dynamic excitation and loading applications and to develop the corresponding parameter identification processes.
Modelling of hysteresis nonlinearity
Prandtl–Ishlinskii model
The unilateral play operator F
r
[u](t): C
m
[0, T] → C
m
[0, T], for any input u (t) ∈ C
m
[0, T], is expressed as
The PI model parameterized by the threshold r, is a superposition of F
r
[u](⋅), and its formula is written as follows
An asymmetric unilateral play operator
The mathematical expression of two-input asymmetric dynamic cross-coupled hysteresis model, based on (3)–(5), is proposed for characterizing complex hysteresis of PEAs
Discretization of TADCH model
For inputs u (t) and l (t), we set h is the sample time, and then the discretized input sequences are u (k), l (k)k= 1,2, …,K = T∕h, with h = t (k) − t (k −1). Based on Eq. (6), the discretization form of TADCH model is presented as
Herein, the discretized
In Eq. (9), it demonstrates that the numerical realization of TADCH model is difficult, which mainly in the estimations of I (⋅) and D (⋅), h[u](t), the weight functions p
k
,
Several groups of voltage u (t) with different frequency are applied to PEAs respectively, and without load applied at this time. Therefore, G[l](⋅) in Eq. (9) is 0. In the first two terms of Eq. (9), the estimating parameters
We adopt the “first step” excitation voltage conditions in this step. Meanwhile, a series of constant load l
s
is applied to PEAs, for s = 1, …, S. In the case of applied loads or not, the displacement variation can be calculated by the following formula
From Eq. (9), the expression of displacement variation is written as
In the third step,
Experiment and analysis
Test platform
To test the prediction and compensation performance of TADCH model, the platform and corresponding data acquisition system are setup (as shown in Fig. 1), which include the control system and data acquisition board (DAB). Herein, the DAB possesses a multi-channel sampling/holding board for recording multiple analogue signals simultaneously. Furthermore, a non-contact capacitance sensor, with a resolution of 5 nm (2 Hz), 50 nm (8 kHz), and a maximum range of 0.5 mm, is adopted for measuring the output deformation of the test actuator. Herein, the selected actuator is the multilateral executing agency (wtyd08055) of the 26th Research Institute of China Electronic Technology Corporation. In Z direction, the selected load generator can produce a load signal with the range of 0n to 200N and the frequency range of 0 to 100 Hz. The load sensor adopts the one with high rigidity (1 kn/M), the accuracy of 0.6N (0.03%), and the measurement range of 0–2000 N.

Test platform.
Prediction performance verification
Based on the established platform, we aim to verify the validation of TADCH model by comparison with PI model. Given the proposed three-step parameter identification strategy, the parameters
As shown in Fig. 2(a), it is found that TAHCD model is slightly better than PI in describing asymmetric characteristics under the condition of small excitation voltage frequency, and without external load applied. Furthermore, there is little difference between TAHCD model and PI model to predict the amplitude, slope, and width of loops. In Fig. 2(b), with the increase of dynamic excitation frequency and amplitude, the accuracy of PI model decreases significantly. The prediction error of TAHCD model is smaller than the PI model, especially with the introduction of parameters b i , i = 0, …,3, the functions G[l](⋅), and G∗[u](⋅).

Comparison results. (a) u (t) = 50sin(2πft), frequency of 1 Hz, and applied 0 N; (b). u (t) = 50sin(2πft), frequency of 100 Hz, and applied s (t) = 75sin(2πft) frequency of 1 Hz.

Feedforward compensation control. (a). Linearity analysis; (b). Tracking error.
Based on the similar process within the literature 19, the discretization of the inverse TADCH model can be derived correspondingly. In this section, a typical tracking experiment, by employing the TADCH inverse model, is developed for verifying the validity of the feedforward compensation strategy. The desired trajectory is defined as the amplitude attenuation triangle wave signal with a frequency of 100 Hz. Without losing its generality, a sinusoidal load with the frequency of 1 Hz is selected following the prediction experiments 4.2.1. As shown in Fig. 3(a)–(b) present the comparison results between the expected trajectory and the measured ones. In Fig. 3(a), the input-output hysteresis curves are approximately linear, and the ratio of hysteresis width to the maximum output is less than 1%. Besides, as can be seen from Fig. 3(b), the maximum absolute tracking error can be controlled within 120 nm. Experiments show that the introduction of inverse compensation controller based on TADCH model essentially suppresses the effect of hysteresis on PEAs.
Conclusions
By introducing the double dynamic threshold functions, the asymmetric anti-hyperbolic envelope functions, and the continuous cross-coupled density functions, we propose a two-input dynamic asymmetric cross-coupled hysteresis model. In addition, based on the nonlinear least square method and several sets of input-output data under specific excitations, a parameter identification strategy for TADCH model is also developed. Experimental results demonstrate that the TADCH model, compared with the PI model, has an excellent performance in describing the asymmetric cross-coupled hysteresis, under the condition of high frequency and high amplitude double excitations. At the same time, the TADCH model and its inverse based feedforward compensation control error can be limited in the hundreds of milliseconds for actual engineering requirements.
Footnotes
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial supports from the NSFC (Natural Science Foundation of China, Nos. 11802118, 51705241), the NSFJP (National Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, No. BK20170808).
Conflict of interest
All authors (the name of author) declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.
