Hysteresis model for piezoceramic materials

This paper addresses the modeling of nonlinear constitutive relations and hysteresis inherent to piezoceramic materials at moderate to high drive levels. Such models are necessary to realize the full potential of the materials in high performance control applications, and a necessary pre-requisite is the development of techniques which permit control implementation. The approach employed here is based on the quantification of reversible and irreversible domain wall motion in response to applied electric fields. A comparison with experimental data illustrates that because the resulting ODE model is physic-based, it can be employed for both characterization and prediction of polarization levels throughout the range of actuator operation. Finally, the ODE formulation is amenable to inversion with facilitates the development of an inverse compensator for linear control design.