Nonlinear Feedback Control to Enhance Stable Performance of Micromachined Electrostatic Parallel Plate Actuators

MEMS parallel plate actuators on elastic suspensions are open loop stable over one third of their rest gap distance. To increase the range of stable motion, a nonlinear feedback controller is proposed in this paper. Verification and error analysis are performed using MATLAB Simulink.

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