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Machines, Volume 11, Issue 3

2023 March - 96 articles

Cover Story: Soft robots hold the promise of creating robotic systems that are cheaper, safer and more flexible than traditional robots. Artificial muscles belong to the most important components of soft robots, and among them, dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) represent the technology that comes closest to the capabilities of a natural muscle. With the recent commercial availability of stacked DEAs, real-world applications are within reach. To develop these applications, it is important to analyze the DEA deformation due to a stimulus in a known environment and under different loading conditions. This requires appropriate test benches, whose components are precisely specified in order to make the research field of dielectric elastomer actuators and soft robots more accessible. View this paper
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Articles (96)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,379 Views
34 Pages

Study on Design Constraints of Conjugated Straight-Line Internal Gear Pair

  • Yundong Liang,
  • Zongbin Chen,
  • Yantao Zhang and
  • Jian Liao

22 March 2023

In order to solve the problem that the design constraints of the conjugated straight-line internal gear pair are unclear, the designing and checking of gear pairs requires repeated trial and error. By analogy with the design of the involute gear pair...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,304 Views
13 Pages

Verification of a Newly Developed Mobile Robot’s Actuator Parameters

  • Ján Semjon,
  • Rudolf Jánoš,
  • Marek Sukop,
  • Peter Tuleja,
  • Peter Marcinko and
  • Marek Nowakowski

22 March 2023

This paper addresses the issue of the verification and comparison of the selected properties of a newly developed electric actuator. This actuator is intended to act as the drive of a walking robot designed for robotic football. Its envisioned placem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,574 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2023

The calibration of kinematic parameters has been widely used to improve the pose (position and orientation) accuracy of the robot arm. Intelligent measuring equipment with high accuracy is usually provided for the industrial manipulator. Unfortunatel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,354 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2023

The automotive industry demands high quality at very low prices. To this end, it is necessary to constantly innovate, making processes increasingly competitive, while continuing to ensure high levels of quality. Model diversification has forced the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,262 Views
13 Pages

Calculation of the Heat Flux from a Ball Screw Nut to the Nut Raceway

  • Tzu-Chien Kuo,
  • An-Shik Yang,
  • Yih-Chyun Hwang and
  • Wen-Hsin Hsieh

21 March 2023

In the field of precision machining, temperature fluctuation tends to cause the most significant machining errors. In particular, heat, which is generated in the nut of the ball screw feed system during movement, can deform the screw shaft significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,433 Views
23 Pages

21 March 2023

In the short/vertical take-off and landing aircraft propulsion system, the vertical take-off/landing and rapid flight are switched through the engagement and disconnection of the dry friction clutch. The smooth and rapid connection of the friction cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,373 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2023

To investigate the formation mechanism of the white layer on the machined surface during high-speed milling of nickel-based superalloy GH4169, several cutting parameters were selected for milling experiments. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,130 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2023

Cascaded control structures are prevalent in industrial systems with many disturbances to obtain stable control but are cumbersome and challenging to tune. In this work, we propose cascaded constrained residual reinforcement learning (RL), an intuiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,556 Views
13 Pages

Proposal of Hybrid Discontinuous PWM Technique for Five-Phase Inverters under Open-Phase Fault Operation

  • Markel Fernandez,
  • Endika Robles,
  • Iker Aretxabaleta,
  • Iñigo Kortabarria and
  • José Luis Martín

20 March 2023

One of the most common issues in inverters are open-circuit faults (OPF). In this scenario, a proper fault-tolerant technique must be used to improve the motor performance. Although basic fault-tolerant modulation techniques are normally preferred, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,539 Views
26 Pages

20 March 2023

This paper presents a comparison among path tracking controllers on low-friction roads for autonomous vehicles. There are two goals in this paper. The first is to check the performance of path tracking controllers on low-friction roads, and the secon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,519 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2023

A four-blade-passage numerical model was developed for a two-stage axial-flow compressor with an inlet guide vane (IGV) for the purpose of studying the steady and dynamic characteristics of the compressor approaching its stability limit. The flow-fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,024 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic Service Mechanism of Double-Row Spherical Roller Bearings Due to Self-Aligning Behavior

  • Yu Xing,
  • Yifei Zhang,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Daoyun Qiao,
  • Yuxia Pei and
  • Yuan Xiao

19 March 2023

Spherical roller bearings (SRBs) are widely used under self-aligning operating conditions, such as rotor bending or an angular misalignment between inner and outer rings due to their self-aligning function. However, the characterization of SRBs&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,718 Views
23 Pages

New Two-BWT Blade Aerodynamic Design and CFD Simulation

  • Guo Li,
  • Juchuan Dai,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Chengming Zuo

19 March 2023

Due to reduced manufacturing, transportation, and installation costs, the two-blade wind turbines (Two-BWT) are a viable option for offshore wind farms. So far, there is no mature design model for offshore Two-BWT. This paper proposes an aerodynamic...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,321 Views
8 Pages

A New Self-Reconfiguration Wave-like Crawling Robot: Design, Analysis, and Experiments

  • Haosheng Sun,
  • Qingxiang Wu,
  • Xuebing Wang,
  • Tong Yang and
  • Ning Sun

19 March 2023

Traditional mobile robots with fixed structures lack the ability to cope with complex terrains and tasks. Reconfigurable modular mobile robots have received considerable attention as they can automatically reassemble according to the changing environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,065 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Tool Edge Geometry and Cutting Conditions on the Performance Indicators in Dry Turning AISI 1045 Steel

  • Adel T. Abbas,
  • Magdy M. El Rayes,
  • Abdulhamid A. Al-Abduljabbar,
  • Adham E. Ragab,
  • Faycal Benyahia and
  • Ahmed Elkaseer

18 March 2023

This article presents an experimental investigation and statistical analysis of the effects of cutting conditions on the machining performance of AISI 1045 steel using a wiper-shaped insert. Experimental findings are used to compare the machining per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,725 Views
14 Pages

Grasping of Solid Industrial Objects Using 3D Registration

  • Monica Sileo,
  • Domenico Daniele Bloisi and
  • Francesco Pierri

17 March 2023

Robots allow industrial manufacturers to speed up production and to increase the product’s quality. This paper deals with the grasping of partially known industrial objects in an unstructured environment. The proposed approach consists of two m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,817 Views
16 Pages

17 March 2023

Modern industrial machine applications often contain data collection functions through automation systems or external sensors. Yet, while the different data collection mechanisms might be effortless to construct, it is advised to have a well-balanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,325 Views
25 Pages

17 March 2023

This article uses dimensional analysis to formulate the tool life in the turning process of metal cutting for small-lot production by considering the impacts of the most important parameters. The estimation of tool life specifies process efficiency,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,252 Views
15 Pages

Thrust Vector Controller Comparison for a Finless Rocket

  • Laura Sopegno,
  • Patrizia Livreri,
  • Margareta Stefanovic and
  • Kimon P. Valavanis

17 March 2023

The paper focuses on comparing applicability, tuning, and performance of different controllers implemented and tested on a finless rocket during its boost phase. The objective was to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each controller, such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,788 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2023

This article addresses a digital twin-based real-time analysis (DTRA) to meditate the power system vulnerability whenever cascading failures and blackouts occur for any reason, and thus, to improve the resiliency. In addition to this, a water-power p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,062 Views
14 Pages

Explainable Machine Learning Approach for Hepatitis C Diagnosis Using SFS Feature Selection

  • Ali Mohd Ali,
  • Mohammad R. Hassan,
  • Faisal Aburub,
  • Mohammad Alauthman,
  • Amjad Aldweesh,
  • Ahmad Al-Qerem,
  • Issam Jebreen and
  • Ahmad Nabot

16 March 2023

Hepatitis C is a significant public health concern, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. Early diagnosis and effective treatment are essential to prevent the disease’s progression to chronic liver disease. Machine learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,941 Views
14 Pages

Novel Partitioned Stator Flux-Switching Permanent Magnet Linear Machine: Design, Analysis, and Optimization

  • Saira Tariq,
  • Faisal Khan,
  • Basharat Ullah,
  • Niaz Muhammad and
  • Baheej Alghamdi

16 March 2023

Over the past few decades, flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machines have gained more attention. A novel flux-switching permanent magnet linear machine with a partitioned stator (FSPMLM-PS), which has the advantages of high thrust force density...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,993 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2023

The positioning accuracy and machining performance of the five-axis machine tool are significantly impacted by the dynamic characteristics of the rotary system of the two-axis rotary table machine. In this study, first, the stiffness of the joint bea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,051 Views
14 Pages

Detection for Disc Cutter Wear of TBM Using Magnetic Force

  • Jialin Han,
  • Hongjiang Xiang,
  • Qiuyue Feng,
  • Jiangbo He,
  • Rong Li and
  • Wensheng Zhao

15 March 2023

To replace the worn-out cutter of tunnel boring machines timely, it is crucial to inspect the cutter’s wear. In this work, a novel detection method based on magnetic force is proposed to overcome the drawback of nonlinearity in current detectin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,927 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2023

Solid rocket motors (SRMs) are widely used as propulsion devices in the aerospace industry. The SRM nozzle and combustion chamber are connected with a plugged-in structure, which makes it difficult to use the existing technology to investigate the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,201 Views
39 Pages

Monitoring the Current Provided by a Hall Sensor Integrated in a Drive Wheel Module of a Mobile Robot

  • George Constantin,
  • Iosif-Adrian Maroșan,
  • Mihai Crenganiș,
  • Corina Botez,
  • Claudia-Emilia Gîrjob,
  • Cristina-Maria Biriș,
  • Anca-Lucia Chicea and
  • Alexandru Bârsan

15 March 2023

This article describes a method for the real-time monitoring of the current consumed by a Dynamixel MX 64 AT servomotor used in the actuation system of modular mobile robotic platforms having differential locomotion and conventional wheels. The data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,267 Views
32 Pages

A Coyote Optimization-Based Residual Attention Echo State Reactive Controller for Improving Power Quality in Grid-PV Systems

  • Rathinam Marimuthu Sekar,
  • Sankar Murugesan,
  • Ghanta Devadasu and
  • Surender Reddy Salkuti

14 March 2023

Improving the power quality and reactive injection capability of grid-PV systems represent the most demanding and crucial tasks in power systems. In the conventional works, many types of converters and regulating approaches have been designed for thi...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,037 Views
3 Pages

Editorial: Social Manufacturing on Industrial Internet

  • Pingyu Jiang,
  • Gang Xiong,
  • Timo R. Nyberg,
  • Zhen Shen,
  • Maolin Yang and
  • Guangyu Xiong

14 March 2023

The fast development of the industrial internet is boosting the evolution of the manufacturing industry to a new stage of socialization, servitization, universal interaction and connection, and platformization [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,190 Views
15 Pages

13 March 2023

Commercial vehicles generally drive at a higher speed on structured expressways, and their higher center of mass leads to a lower rollover threshold and a greater rollover risk while steering. Therefore, the design of a lateral trajectory-tracking co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,205 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2023

Since the inception of electric discharge machining (EDM), it has facilitated the production industries, for instance, die & mold, automotive, aerospace, etc., by providing an effective solution for machining hard-to-cut materials and intricate g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,247 Views
15 Pages

A Portable Real-Time Test Bench for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

  • Lukas Sohlbach,
  • Sushil Bhatta,
  • Fernando Perez-Peña and
  • Karsten Schmidt

13 March 2023

Recently, a significant amount of research has been devoted to soft robots. Artificial muscles belong to the most important components of soft robots. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) represent the technology that comes closest to the capabiliti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,523 Views
35 Pages

12 March 2023

The aim of this contribution is to propose the architecture for a layered design of the production system. This proposal uses the IEC 62443 norm, including the Defense-in-Depth strategy and proven technical principles applicable in a Smart Factory wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,480 Views
26 Pages

11 March 2023

The separate control method of flippers and the movement of the mass center makes the active articulated tracked robot unable to realize higher-level motion and difficult to adapt to rough and complex obstacle terrain. In this paper, a new design met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,578 Views
30 Pages

11 March 2023

Pest birds are a salient problem in agriculture all around the world due to the damage they can cause to commercial or high-value crops. Recent advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have motivated the use of drones in pest bird deterrence,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,790 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of Linear Regression and Artificial Neural Network Models for the Dimensional Control of the Welded Stamped Steel Arms

  • Milan Kadnár,
  • Peter Káčer,
  • Marta Harničárová,
  • Jan Valíček,
  • František Tóth,
  • Marián Bujna,
  • Milena Kušnerová,
  • Rastislav Mikuš and
  • Marian Boržan

10 March 2023

The production of parts by pressing and subsequent welding is commonly used in the automotive industry. The disadvantage of this method of production is that inaccuracies arising during pressing significantly affect the final dimension of the part. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,387 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of a Novel 3R Parallel Compliant Mechanism

  • Lanqing Pan,
  • James W. Zhang,
  • Dan Zhang and
  • Hongyan Tang

10 March 2023

This paper presents and investigates a new three-rotation (3R) parallel compliant mechanism that uses compliant rods to achieve three rotations. The mechanism is designed for use in pointing devices or as a spatial parallel manipulator. The mobility...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,395 Views
20 Pages

Observer-Based Controller Using Line Integral Lyapunov Fuzzy Function for TS Fuzzy Systems: Application to Induction Motors

  • Rabiaa Houili,
  • Mohamed Yacine Hammoudi,
  • Mohamed Benbouzid and
  • Abdennacer Titaouine

10 March 2023

This paper deals with the stabilization problem of a nonlinear system described by a Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy (TSF) model with unmeasurable premise variables via a robust controller. Applying the sector nonlinearity techniques, the nonlinear system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,202 Views
12 Pages

10 March 2023

The reliability and stability of the seal at the fuel-supply end of a rocket-engine turbopump are important factors in determining safety. Conventional single-stage floating rings used for the isolation-sealing of cryogenic media are highly susceptib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,679 Views
25 Pages

Frame Angular Velocity Control Design of SGCMG for Unmanned Two-Wheeled Motorcycle

  • Bao Chen,
  • Xiang Fei,
  • Yiming Fan,
  • Yuanhong Dan and
  • Zehao Huang

9 March 2023

In contrast to driverless cars and other three-wheeled and four-wheeled motorcycle vehicles, driverless two-wheeled motorcycles have the problem of maintaining balance. In this paper, we propose the design of an SGCMG frame angular velocity controlle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,727 Views
18 Pages

Yaw Rate Prediction and Tilting Feedforward Synchronous Control of Narrow Tilting Vehicle Based on RNN

  • Ruolin Gao,
  • Haitao Li,
  • Ya Wang,
  • Shaobing Xu,
  • Wenjun Wei,
  • Xiao Zhang and
  • Na Li

9 March 2023

The synchronous control of yaw motion and tilting motion is an important problem related to the lateral stability and energy consumption of narrow tilting vehicles. This paper proposes a method for the tilting control of narrow tilting vehicles: tilt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,776 Views
13 Pages

Determination of Anthropometric Lengths of Body Segments Using Machine Vision Systems

  • Juan C. Arellano-González,
  • Hugo I. Medellín-Castillo,
  • Raúl I. Hernández-Molinar,
  • Héctor Plascencia-Mora and
  • Alejandro González-de Alba

9 March 2023

Anthropometric measurements are essential in various fields, such as sports, the automotive industry, clothing, health care, biomechanics, ergonomics, and gait analysis. However, the data collection process for these measurements is costly and time-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,406 Views
12 Pages

Development of a Rotary Damper Integrated with Magnetorheological Bearings toward Extremely High Torque–Volume Ratio

  • Shengfeng Zhu,
  • Ning Gong,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Shiwu Zhang,
  • Xinglong Gong,
  • Weihua Li and
  • Shuaishuai Sun

9 March 2023

Magnetorheological (MR) technology has provided effective solutions to many engineering bottleneck problems due to its controllable nature. However, designing a rotary MR damper with a high torque–volume ratio is always challenging, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,019 Views
20 Pages

Developing and Testing of the Principle Prototype for Efficient Micro-Damage Fine Stripping of Asphalt on the Surface of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement

  • Long Zhou,
  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Jizhe Zhang,
  • Bin Zou,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Wenwu Zhang,
  • Xin Lv,
  • De’an Meng,
  • Xueliang Hu and
  • Lei Li
  • + 1 author

8 March 2023

In the current recycling process of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), due to the serious damage of aggregate gradation and the large amount of aged asphalt still wrapped around the surface of the treated aggregate, the low recycling rate and poor per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,692 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2023

This study proposes a sensor data process and motion control method for a mobile platform essential for transporting finished products or subsidiary materials in a smart factory. We developed a system that recognizes a fiducial marker printed on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,815 Views
21 Pages

Processing Strategies for Dieless Forming of Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composites

  • Jan-Erik Rath,
  • Robert Graupner and
  • Thorsten Schüppstuhl

8 March 2023

The demand for lightweight materials, such as fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP), is constantly growing. However, current FRP production mostly relies on expensive molds representing the final part geometry, which is not economical for prototyping or hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,073 Views
16 Pages

7 March 2023

In order to accurately analyze the temperature distribution of a high-speed magnetic suspension amorphous motor, a multi-physical coupling method, including flow field, electromagnetic field and temperature field, is proposed. The electromagnetic los...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,561 Views
23 Pages

7 March 2023

The adjoint thermodynamic and heat exchange processes in the new class piston compressor with regenerative heat exchange are considered in the paper. The implicit tridiagonal matrix algorithm is implemented to study the unsteady thermal conductivity...

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