PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI, cilt.22, sa.8, ss.629-635, 2016 (ESCI)
In this paper, vision based displacement control of a tri-layer conjugated electro-active polymer actuator has been performed in micrometer resolution. Sliding mode control with different reaching laws which is robust to unmodeled uncertainties has been used as the control method. A microscope has been used to observe position of the free end point of the actuator and a vision based system has been employed for feedback signal. Experimental results show that the conjugated electro-active polymer actuators can be successfully controlled in micrometer resolution and can be used in applications which includes micromanipulation like cell injection.