Inverse rate-dependent Prandtl-Ishlinskii operators and applications

In the past years, we observed an increased interest in rate-dependent hysteresis models to characterize complex time-dependent nonlinearities in smart actuators. A natural way to include rate-dependence to the Prandtl-Ishlinskii model is to consider it as a linear combination of play operators whose thresholds are functions of time. In this work, we propose the extension of the class of rate-dependent Prandtl-Ishlinskii operators to the case of a whole continuum of play operators with time-dependent thresholds. We prove the existence of an analytical inversion formula, and illustrate its applicability in the study of error bounds for inverse compensation.