Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-based actuators are versatile actuators with a high power-to-weight ratio. These actuators are ideal for applications such as smart wings and smart rotors. However, SMA-based actuators are generally difficult to control, due to a low bandwidth and a hysteretic and non-linear response. The general control framework, or Phase Transformation Approach, focuses on fundamental properties of the SMA material. By using some of the fundamental properties to construct four control laws, the general control framework ensures that is effective for all SMA-based actuators. The control principles were tested and showed that the proposed control framework was effective. However, the parametrization of the control framework was not straightforward. It seemed to have a strong dependency on the amplitude and frequency of the reference signal, also due to the still non-linear response. The individual control principles were effective at achieving what they were designed for but their hierarchy within the general control framework has to be rearranged.