Caponetto, Riccardo; Dongola, Giovanni; Fortuna, Luigi; Gallo, Antonio; Graziani, Salvatore IPMC actuators non integer order models. (English) Zbl 1207.82058 Baleanu, Dumitru (ed.) et al., New trends in nanotechnology and fractional calculus applications. Selected papers based on the presentations at the workshop new trends in science and technology (NTST 08), and the workshop fractional differentiation and its applications (FDA 09), Ankara, Türkei, November 2008. Dordrecht: Springer (ISBN 978-90-481-3292-8/hbk; 978-90-481-3293-5/ebook). 263-272 (2010). Summary: A new model for Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMC) actuators, based on non-integer order models is proposed. IPMCs are very interesting polymer because of their capability to transform electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice-versa, making them particularly attractive for possible applications in different fields, such as robotics, aerospace, biomedicine, etc. An experimental setup has been realized to study the IPMCs behavior and an algorithm has been developed in Matlab environment in order to identify a fractional order model of IPMC actuators.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1196.65021]. Cited in 34 Documents MSC: 82D60 Statistical mechanics of polymers 82-05 Experimental work for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics Keywords:ionic polymer metal composites Software:Matlab PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. Caponetto} et al., in: New trends in nanotechnology and fractional calculus applications. Selected papers based on the presentations at the workshop new trends in science and technology (NTST 08), and the workshop fractional differentiation and its applications (FDA 09), Ankara, Türkei, November 2008. Dordrecht: Springer. 263--272 (2010; Zbl 1207.82058) Full Text: DOI