Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Elahinia, Mohammad
Author's Email Address	elahinia@vt.edu
URN	etd-08092004-112739
Title	Effect of System Dynamics on Shape Memory Alloy Behavior and Control
Degree	PhD
Department	Mechanical Engineering
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Professor Mehdi Ahmadian Committee Chair Professor Ali H. Nayfeh Committee Member Professor Daniel J. Inman Committee Member Professor Donald J. Leo Committee Member Professor Edmund G. Henneke, II Committee Member Professor William T. Baumann Committee Member
Keywords	Model-based Control Control Complex Thermomechanical Loadings Shape Memory Alloy Modeling
Date of Defense	2004-08-05
Availability	mixed
Abstract While the existing thermomechanical constitutive models can predict the behavior of SMA-actuated systems in most cases, in this study, we have shown that there are certain situations in which these models are not able to predict the behavior of SMAs. To this end, a rotary SMA-actuated robotic arm is modeled using the existing constitutive models. The model is verified against the experimental results to document that under certain conditions, the model is not able to predict the behavior of the SMA-actuated manipulator. Such cases most often occur when the temperature and stress of the SMA wire change simultaneously. The constitutive model discrepancy is also studied experimentally using a dead-weight that is actuated by an SMA wire. Subsequently, an enhanced phenomenological model is developed. The enhanced model is able to predict the behavior of SMAs under complex thermomechanical loadings. For the SMA-actuated robotic arm, several control methods are designed through simulations. A position-based PID controller is designed first, and it is found that this controller cannot perform well for all the desired angular positions(set-points). A Variable Structure Control (VSC) based on the angular position and velocity is presented that has a relatively better erformance for all the set-points. To improve the erformance of the VSC, in terms of the steady state error, an Extended Kalman Filter is designed and used to modify the VSC design. The modified VSC is based on the angular position and angular velocity of the actuator and the estimated temperature of the SMA wire. Furthermore, a Sliding Mode Controller is designed based on the stress of the SMA wire. Finally, a model-based Backstepping Controller is designed for the SMA-actuated arm. This model-bsed controller allows designing the controller parameters based on the parameters of the system. Additionally, the stability of the controller is studied. Using the Lyapunov stability analysis, it is shown that the model-based Backstepping Controller is able to asymptotically stabilize the system.
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