Dynamic modeling and disturbance rejection compensation for hysteresis nonlinearity of high voltage piezoelectric stack actuators

Abstract High voltage piezoelectric stack actuators (HVPSA) are widely used in the field of active vibration control of engineering structures due to their strong load capacity, fast response rate, and high mechanical output efficiency. However, their inherent hysteresis will have a direct impact on the stability and control efficiency of the piezoelectric active control system. To compensate the hysteresis nonlinearity of HVPSA, a high-precision dynamic hybrid method based on linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) is proposed. Starting from the hysteresis analysis of piezoelectric actuators, an exponential function butterfly-shape hysteresis operator is constructed and combined with the asymmetric Bouc–Wen model to present a novel hybrid static hysteresis model. In order to implement rate-dependent hysteresis modeling, the Hammerstein rate-dependent hysteresis model of HVPSA is further established, and its inverse model is built for feedforward compensation. Subsequently, the LADRC is used to adjust the driving voltage in real time to form the hysteresis closed-loop compensator of HVPSA. The experimental results show that the Hammerstein rate-dependent hysteresis model established has satisfactory modeling accuracy in the working voltage range and frequency band under consideration. Furthermore, compared with the traditional inverse model feedforward compensation strategy, the proposed hybrid compensation method based on LADRC improves the compensation efficiency by more than 11% and reduces the hysteresis nonlinearity of HVPSA to less than 3%, with strong anti-disturbance ability.