Dielectric Electro Active Polymer Incremental Actuator Driven by Multiple High-Voltage Bi-directional DC-DC Converters

Prasanth Thummala; Zhe Zhang; Michael A. E. Andersen; Sarban Rahimullah

doi:10.1109/ECCE.2013.6647209

Dielectric Electro Active Polymer Incremental Actuator Driven by Multiple High-Voltage Bi-directional DC-DC Converters

Prasanth Thummala
, Zhe Zhang
, Michael A. E. Andersen
, Sarban Rahimullah

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This paper presents driving circuit for a recently invented dielectric electro active polymer (DEAP) incremental actuator. The basic operation of such an actuator is bioinspired from the movement of an inchworm. The actuator consists of three electrically isolated, and mechanically connected capacitive sub-actuators. It needs to be driven by three high voltage (~2.5 kV) DC-DC converters, to achieve the linear incremental motion. The topology used for this application is a bi-directional flyback DC-DC converter. The control of the incremental actuator involves, implementation of digital controller used for controlling charge and discharge sequences of the individual sub-actuators, and monitoring and adjustment of the output voltages of three high voltage DC-DC converters to provide over-voltage protection capability. Three power stages of the proposed converter were experimentally tested. The experimental results and efficiency measurements are shown.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2013
Pages	3837-3844
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-0336-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2013.6647209
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	IEEE ECCE USA 2013 - Denver, Colorado, United States Duration: 15 Sept 2013 → 19 Sept 2013 http://www.ecce2013.org/

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Conference	IEEE ECCE USA 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver, Colorado
Period	15/09/2013 → 19/09/2013
Internet address	http://www.ecce2013.org/

Keywords

Power
Energy and Industry Applications
Actuars
Bidirectional control
Discharges (electric)
Grippers
Topology
Voltage control
Voltage measurement

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Thummala, P, Zhang, Z, Andersen, MAE & Rahimullah, S 2013, Dielectric Electro Active Polymer Incremental Actuator Driven by Multiple High-Voltage Bi-directional DC-DC Converters. in Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.. IEEE, pp. 3837-3844, IEEE ECCE USA 2013, Denver, Colorado, United States, 15/09/2013. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2013.6647209

Dielectric Electro Active Polymer Incremental Actuator Driven by Multiple High-Voltage Bi-directional DC-DC Converters. / Thummala, Prasanth; Zhang, Zhe; Andersen, Michael A. E. et al.
Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.. IEEE, 2013. p. 3837-3844.

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Dielectric Electro Active Polymer Incremental Actuator Driven by Multiple High-Voltage Bi-directional DC-DC Converters

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