Design of a Charge Drive for Reducing Hysteresis in a Piezoelectric Bimorph Actuator

This paper describes the design of a charge drive for reducing the hysteresis exhibited by a piezoelectric bimorph bender. Existing charge drive circuits cannot be directly applied to bimorph benders since they share a common electrode. In this paper, a new charge drive circuit and electrical configuration are implemented that allows commonly available piezoelectric bimorphs to be linearized. This circuit consists of four major components, including, a high voltage amplifier, a differential amplifier, a piezoelectric load, and a PI feedback controller. An isolation amplifier was used to achieve a differential amplifier with a high common-mode rejection ratio. The charge drive was tested by driving a series poled three layer bimorph bender. The experiment showed a significant improvement to the hysteresis of the bender when compared to a typical voltage drive. This paper has identified an alternative Feedback method to improve the ac hysteresis performance of a piezoelectric bender by using a charge drive.

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