An innovative integration of actuating and sensing ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) gripper is proposed and fabricated in this paper. The IPMC gripper is composed of a stationary copper finger and an IPMC finger attached to a force sensor. In order to make IPMC gripper useful in bio-manipulation application, control strategy is a critical factor to resist nonlinear characteristic of IPMC. Hammerstein model of IPMC output displacement is constructed with static nonlinear portion and dynamic linear portion. We utilize creep operator superposition and auto-regression (ARX) models to represent static nonlinear and dynamic linear portions respectively by modeling methods based on data. Then a novel control scheme is proposed and designed using inverse creep compensator for static nonlinear portion and uncertainty state feedback robust control based on state observer for dynamic linear portion. When IPMC reaches a constant displacement to grasp a miniature object, the grasping force may not be provided enough to complete grasping task. Finally, hybrid control of force and position strategy for IPMC gripper is conducted and realized on physical experimental platform. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of control system to guarantee stable manipulation.
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