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Actuators, Volume 12, Issue 10

October 2023 - 31 articles

Cover Story: Independent metering is a well-known strategy for making proportional hydraulic cylinder drives more efficient and more flexible because each port of the actuator is controlled individually by independent two-way proportional valves. In this paper, the concept is realized as an open-loop control for a hydraulic cylinder drive, which, in combination with a human operator, constitutes a so-called cybernetic proportional system. The piston velocity commanded by the operator is controlled by the compensation of the static characteristics of the proportional seat-type valves. Basic simulations show the benefits and also the problems of open-loop independent metering. Furthermore, the measurements on one actuator of a real excavator regarding controllability and energy consumption are presented. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,115 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2023

A gas turbine cooling system is a typical multivariable, strongly coupled, nonlinear system; however, the randomness and large disturbances make it difficult to control the variables precisely. In order to solve the problem of precise process control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,593 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2023

In the field-weakening region, the traditional field-weakening method for induction motor drives based on model predictive control (MPC) is to take a no-load operation as the premise and adjust the flux reference in the cost function proportional to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,748 Views
20 Pages

Electromechanical Actuator-Based Solution for a Scissor Lift

  • Łukasz Stawiński,
  • Viacheslav Zakharov,
  • Andrzej Kosucki and
  • Tatiana Minav

21 October 2023

Electrification and hybridization in non-road mobile machinery have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Normally, these green solutions concentrate on drivetrains, slowly penetrating to the implements or, as they are commonly known, wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,209 Views
18 Pages

A Soft Actor-Critic Approach for a Blind Walking Hexapod Robot with Obstacle Avoidance

  • Lei Wang,
  • Ruiwen Li,
  • Ziwei Huangfu,
  • Yishan Feng and
  • Yiyang Chen

21 October 2023

This paper investigates a path planning approach for the walking and obstacle avoidance of a blind hexapod robot in various field conditions. Hexapod robots often perform field tasks in unstructured environments, and their external sensors are affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,585 Views
16 Pages

Motion Analysis of Wire Rope Maintenance Device

  • Wei Wang,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Xudong Huang,
  • Jinlong Cao and
  • Weilun Zhang

19 October 2023

This work outlines a design for a wire rope maintenance device that is based on commonly used, low-dropping point lubricating grease for wire rope lubrication and operates along the strand’s twist direction. Unlike similar existing devices, thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,641 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2023

Point machines are the actuators for railway switching and crossing systems that guide trains from one track to another. Hence, the safe and reliable behavior of point machines are pivotal for rail transportation. Recently, scholars and researchers h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,780 Views
23 Pages

17 October 2023

With the evolution of the aerospace industry, structures have become larger and more complex. These structures exhibit significant characteristics such as extensive flexibility, low natural frequencies, numerous modes, and minimal structural damping....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,906 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2023

Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems often suffer from unscheduled maintenance or abnormal shutdown due to the fault of their interior sensor system. Traditional fault diagnosis methods for HVAC sensor systems primarily focus on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,266 Views
21 Pages

Parameter Optimization of Vibration Reduction Structure for Low-Speed, Multi-Acting Cam Ring Motor

  • Gaocheng An,
  • Wenkang Wang,
  • Hongquan Dong,
  • Baoyu Liu,
  • Wei Song and
  • Zhenhua Hu

16 October 2023

To address the issue of serious torque pulsation and optimize the output characteristics of multi-acting cam ring motors at low speed, a sensitivity analysis was conducted on the parameters of the triangular groove at the valve plate. Firstly, a math...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,666 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2023

This article proposes a servo control strategy for compensating matched and mismatched perturbations in flexible ball screw feed systems to improve their tracking performance. The perturbations that satisfy or dissatisfy the matching conditions inclu...

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Actuators - ISSN 2076-0825