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Actuators, Volume 13, Issue 10

2024 October - 47 articles

Cover Story: A slender, soft robot was designed and tested in a swimming experiment in a still-water tank. The robot employs soft pneumatic muscles activated with a rhythmic input. The system was modeled as a fully coupled fluid–solid interaction (FSI) system. The experiments show successful swimming, and the proposed mode analysis algorithm allowed the modeling and explanation of the fluctuation. The results disclose the presence of traveling waves related to anguilliform waves obtained via the superposition of two main modes. The similarities of the results with natural anguilliform locomotion are discussed. It is concluded that soft robot undulation is ruled by dynamic modes induced by robot–environment interactions. View this paper
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Articles (47)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,518 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2024

With the development of technology, the working processes of rolling equipment have become more and more complex, and the traditional rolling model encounters difficulties in meeting current demands for accuracy. To reduce the thickness error of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,809 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2024

The increasing demand for innovative grippers and actuators for the automation sector encourages the development of new and innovative functional principles. Intelligent materials are particularly suitable for this purpose based on their high energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,425 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2024

In order to obtain information regarding changes in the air cushion flow field and load-bearing characteristics of a single row hole air cushion belt conveyor, a structural model of the air cushion of the belt conveyor was established, with the singl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active Flow Control: Recent Advances in Fundamentals and Applications — Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,701 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2024

Aiming at the problems of low trajectory tracking accuracy, serious chattering and poor robust performance of ball screw feed systems in traditional sliding mode control (SMC), in this paper, a global nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (G...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,656 Views
23 Pages

Three-Dimensional Outdoor Object Detection in Quadrupedal Robots for Surveillance Navigations

  • Muhammad Hassan Tanveer,
  • Zainab Fatima,
  • Hira Mariam,
  • Tanazzah Rehman and
  • Razvan Cristian Voicu

16 October 2024

Quadrupedal robots are confronted with the intricate challenge of navigating dynamic environments fraught with diverse and unpredictable scenarios. Effectively identifying and responding to obstacles is paramount for ensuring safe and reliable naviga...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,190 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2024

Under extended-phase-shift (ESP) control, the current stress of the dual active bridge converter (DAB) is relatively high, which reduces the efficiency of the converter. To solve this problem, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm based on mi...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,821 Views
15 Pages

ADRC Control of Ultra-High-Speed Electric Air Compressor Considering Excitation Observation

  • Jiaming Zhou,
  • Yingzheng Li,
  • Jinming Zhang,
  • Fengyan Yi and ,
  • Chunxiao Feng,
  • Caizhi Zhang,
  • Bo Deng,
  • Honglei Qi,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Shuo Wang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

16 October 2024

With the increasing power of fuel cells, ultra-high-speed electric air compressors (UHSEACs) have been widely used. However, due to the ultra-high speeds involved, UHSEACs face problems such as long speed adjustment times and large speed fluctuations...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,540 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2024

This study investigates the effects of humanoid robot appearance, emotional expression, and interaction skills on the uncanny valley phenomenon among university students using the social humanoid robot (SHR) Ameca. Two fundamental studies were conduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Robots: Design, Control and Application—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,037 Views
15 Pages

A Pneumatic Fingerless Soft Gripper for Envelope Gripping

  • Shuman Xu,
  • Hongmei Du,
  • Shangsheng Zhang,
  • Ruicheng Lei and ,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Yulian Li and
  • Zengzhi Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 October 2024

In grasping operations, when facing unstructured environments, the use of soft-body grippers can be a good solution to the problem of grasping objects that are inconvenient to grasp due to their fragility and irregularity. However, as the soft-body g...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,015 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2024

Nonlinear disturbances, such as friction, backlash, and base vibration, are the main factors restricting the further improvement of the dynamic performance of the Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing (ATP) system. However, the modeling and compensation...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,849 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2024

Undoubtedly, wind turbines are currently one of the most significant contributors to clean energy. Therefore, it is crucial to enhance the capability of wind turbines, which in turn leads to an increase in their dimensions. Nevertheless, only advance...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,708 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2024

Thickness and shape are two significant indices in the tandem hot strip rolling process. Excessive thickness correction can cause rolling force imbalance, leading to deteriorated shape conditions. Aiming at this problem, we propose a new monitor auto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Design of Linear/Nonlinear Control System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,243 Views
20 Pages

Intelligent Grinding System for Medium/Thick Plate Welding Seams in Construction Machinery Using 3D Laser Measurement and Deep Learning

  • Qifeng Liu,
  • Rencheng Zheng,
  • Pengchao Li,
  • Chao Liu and ,
  • Deyuan Mi,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Wenli Xie
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2024

With the rapid development of the construction machinery industry, thick plate welds are increasingly needing efficient, accurate, and intelligent processing. This study proposes an intelligent grinding system using 3D line laser measurement and deep...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,285 Views
25 Pages

Remaining Useful Life Prediction Method Based on Dual-Path Interaction Network with Multiscale Feature Fusion and Dynamic Weight Adaptation

  • Zhe Lu,
  • Bing Li,
  • Changyu Fu,
  • Junbao Wu and ,
  • Liang Xu,
  • Siye Jia and
  • Hao Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 October 2024

In fields such as manufacturing and aerospace, remaining useful life (RUL) prediction estimates the failure time of high-value assets like industrial equipment and aircraft engines by analyzing time series data collected from various sensors, enablin...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,627 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2024

Magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) hold significant potential in fulfilling the requirements of vascular interventional robots, enabling safe access to difficult-to-reach areas with enhanced active maneuverability, shape morphing capabilities, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,326 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2024

This paper presents an innovative approach to high-temperature health monitoring of aircraft structures utilizing an ultrasonic guided wave transmission and reception system integrated with a zirconia heat buffer layer. Aiming to address the challeng...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,421 Views
17 Pages

Knowledge Graph Completion for High-Speed Railway Turnout Switch Machine Maintenance Based on the Multi-Level KBGC Model

  • Haixiang Lin,
  • Jijin Bao,
  • Nana Hu,
  • Zhengxiang Zhao and ,
  • Wansheng Bai and
  • Dong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 October 2024

The incompleteness of the existing knowledge graphs in the railway domain creates information gaps, impacting their quality and effectiveness in the operation and maintenance of high-speed railway turnout switch machines. To address this, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,091 Views
16 Pages

Numerical and Experimental Study of a Wearable Exo-Glove for Telerehabilitation Application Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuators

  • Mohammad Sadeghi,
  • Alireza Abbasimoshaei,
  • Jose Pedro Kitajima Borges and
  • Thorsten Alexander Kern

11 October 2024

Hand paralysis, caused by conditions such as spinal cord injuries, strokes, and arthritis, significantly hinders daily activities. Wearable exo-gloves and telerehabilitation offer effective hand training solutions to aid the recovery process. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,458 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2024

The influence of key design parameters on the constant force characteristics of long-stroke moving-iron proportional solenoid actuators (MPSAs) has been explored by a method combining finite element modelling and correlation analysis. First, the fini...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Theory and Application of Magnetic Actuators—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,793 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2024

Four-wheel independent drive and four-wheel independent steering (4WID-4WIS) vehicles provide increased redundancy in fault-tolerant control (FTC) schemes, enhancing heterogeneous fault-tolerant capabilities. This paper addresses the challenge of mai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and Isolation, Fault Tolerant Control for Autonomous and Transport Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,197 Views
20 Pages

7 October 2024

Bio-inspired robots with elongated anatomy, like eels, are studied to discover anguilliform swimming principles and improve the robots’ locomotion accordingly. Soft continuum robots replicate animal–environment physics better than noncomp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,511 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2024

For several decades, Moore’s law has driven the semiconductor industry, with computational power and production costs as the main drivers. Such drivers have enabled several technological innovations in the mechatronics and dynamics architecture...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Piezoelectric/Ultrasonic Sensors and Actuators-2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,923 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2024

This article addresses the common issues of insufficient computing power and path congestion for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in real-world production environments, as well as the shortcomings of traditional path-planning algorithms that mainly c...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,685 Views
21 Pages

Nonlinear Flux Linkage Observer with Model Reference Adaptive System for Improved Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Control

  • Shaopeng Zhu,
  • Kaida Hu,
  • Jian Lin,
  • Yongqing Liu and ,
  • Huipeng Chen,
  • Weiyang Wang and
  • Jian Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 October 2024

This paper addresses performance degradation in nonlinear flux linkage algorithms, arising from estimation errors in rotor flux linkage due to fluctuations in current and temperature. We introduce a parameter-adaptive flux linkage model using MRAS, w...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,453 Views
29 Pages

Dynamics Modeling and Motion Evaluation of a Near-Ground Tethered Balloon Cable System under Severe Wind Environments

  • Zhenhua Lai,
  • Mao Tang,
  • Xiaojin Hu,
  • Xin Shu and ,
  • Weicheng Huang and
  • Yongjun Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 October 2024

Weather survival poses a significant challenge for the utilization of tethered balloons. The dynamic modeling of tethered balloon systems presents challenges due to the flexible nature of the cables and the intricate nature of gust forces. The presen...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,577 Views
18 Pages

Wind Turbine Bearing Failure Diagnosis Using Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Residual Neural Networks with Block Attention

  • Yuanqing Luo,
  • Yuhang Yang,
  • Shuang Kang,
  • Xueyong Tian and ,
  • Shiyue Liu and
  • Feng Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 October 2024

Wind turbine rolling bearings are crucial components for ensuring the reliability and stability of wind power systems. Their failure can lead to significant economic losses and equipment downtime. Therefore, the accurate diagnosis of bearing faults i...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,786 Views
15 Pages

Dissimilar Resistance Welding of NiTi Microwires for High-Performance SMA Bundle Actuators

  • Dominik Scholtes,
  • Ralf-Kilian Zäh,
  • Benedikt Faupel,
  • Stefan Seelecke and
  • Paul Motzki

5 October 2024

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are becoming a more important factor in actuation technology. Due to their unique features, they have the potential to save weight and installation space as well as reduce energy consumption. The system integration of the g...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,781 Views
16 Pages

4 October 2024

This paper proposes a path planning and tracking control algorithm for multi-autonomous mobile robot (multi-AMR) systems that addresses the challenges posed by AMRs with a kinematic model. The proposed path planning algorithm is divided into two laye...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater/Ground Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,105 Views
16 Pages

4 October 2024

The flux switching permanent magnet (FSPM) motor is a stator permanent magnet motor. The typical FSPM motor is doubly salient, which generates torque ripple and affects the rotation smoothness. In this paper, the influence of salient pole geometric s...

(This article belongs to the Section High Torque/Power Density Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,618 Views
18 Pages

Data-Driven Control Method Based on Koopman Operator for Suspension System of Maglev Train

  • Peichen Han,
  • Junqi Xu,
  • Lijun Rong,
  • Wen Wang and ,
  • Yougang Sun and
  • Guobin Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 October 2024

The suspension system of the Electromagnetic Suspension (EMS) maglev train is crucial for ensuring safe operation. This article focuses on data-driven modeling and control optimization of the suspension system. By the Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Theory and Application of Magnetic Actuators—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,828 Views
10 Pages

Efficient Long-Lasting Energy Generation Using a Linear-to-Rotary Conversion Triboelectric Nanogenerator

  • Jaehee Shin,
  • Sungho Ji,
  • Jiyoung Yoon,
  • Duck Hwan Kim and
  • Jinhyoung Park

3 October 2024

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are a viable energy-harvesting technology that can harness kinetic energy from various environmental sources. TENGs primarily utilize linear and rotational motion as their kinetic energy sources. In the contact/se...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,089 Views
19 Pages

3 October 2024

In order to improve the observation accuracy of rotor positions in the sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motors and to simplify the parameter adjustment process, this paper proposes an improved finite-time adaptive super-twisting sli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,232 Views
25 Pages

3 October 2024

This paper presents a static output feedback controller for a semi-active suspension system that provides improved ride comfort under various road roughness conditions. Previous studies on feedback control for semi-active suspension systems have prim...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,191 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2024

In the domain of bionic walking control for biped robots, optimizing the parameters of the central pattern generator (CPG) presents a formidable challenge due to its high-dimensional and nonlinear characteristics. The traditional particle swarm optim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuators in Robotic Control—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,839 Views
25 Pages

2 October 2024

Aimed at the stability problem of quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight attitudes under random airflow disturbance conditions, a robust H-infinity-based dual cascade Model Predictive Control (MPC) attitude control method is proposed. Model P...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,655 Views
13 Pages

2 October 2024

Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) are extensively used for scanning and positioning in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) due to their high precision, simple construction, and fast response. However, there are significant challenges for instrument designer...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,786 Views
28 Pages

2 October 2024

Active repair systems employing piezoelectric (PZT) patches have emerged as promising solutions for mitigating crack propagation and enhancing structural integrity in various engineering applications. However, the existing literature predominantly fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,907 Views
21 Pages

Research on Coordinated Control of Vehicle Inertial Suspension Using the Dynamic Surface Control Theory

  • Yanhui Zhao,
  • Fu Du,
  • Hujiang Wang,
  • Xuelin Wang and ,
  • Xiaofeng Yang,
  • Dongyin Shi,
  • Vancuong Bui and
  • Tianyi Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 October 2024

In the process of driving, the steering, braking, and driving conditions and different road conditions affect the vibration characteristics of the vehicle in the vertical, roll, and pitch directions. These factors greatly impact the riding comfort of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Control for Chassis Devices in Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,625 Views
15 Pages

Fixed-Time Congestion Control for a Class of Uncertain Multi-Bottleneck TCP/AWM Networks

  • Yanxin Li,
  • Jiqing Chen,
  • Shangkun Liu,
  • Weimin Zheng and
  • Runan Guo

1 October 2024

As network technology continues to advance, network congestion has become an inevitable aspect of network communication. Considering the external interference, unmodeled uncertainty and the interaction between nodes, a multi-bottleneck TCP/AWM networ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing, Control and Actuation in Networked Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,160 Views
20 Pages

A Mechanical Fault Diagnosis Method for UCG-Type On-Load Tap Changers in Converter Transformers Based on Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Yanhui Shi,
  • Yanjun Ruan,
  • Liangchuang Li,
  • Bo Zhang and ,
  • Kaiwen Yuan,
  • Zhao Luo,
  • Yichao Huang,
  • Mao Xia,
  • Siqi Li and
  • Sizhao Lu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

1 October 2024

The On-Load Tap Changer (OLTC) is the only movable mechanical component in a converter transformer. To ensure the reliable operation of the OLTC and to promptly detect mechanical faults in OLTCs to prevent them from developing into electrical faults,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,879 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2024

Large-scale explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robotic manipulators can replace manual EOD tasks, offering higher efficiency and better safety. This study focuses on the control strategies and response speeds of EOD robotic manipulators. Using Adams t...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,068 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2024

To address the demand for low noise and high stealthiness in ships and other vessels, this paper innovatively proposes an inertial magnetic levitation actuator based on non-uniform-sized Halbach permanent magnet arrays. To improve control accuracy, i...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,507 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2024

This paper analyzes the performance of an interplanetary CubeSat equipped with a hybrid propulsion system (HPS), which combines two different types of thrusters in the same deep space vehicle, in a heliocentric transfer between two assigned (Kepleria...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Aerospace Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,348 Views
15 Pages

Programmable Hydrogel-Based Soft Robotics via Encoded Building Block Design

  • Sirawit Pruksawan,
  • Zhan Au Chua,
  • Yi Ting Chong and
  • FuKe Wang

1 October 2024

Hydrogels have revolutionized the field of soft robotics with their ability to provide dynamic and programmable responses to different stimuli, enabling the fabrication of highly adaptable and flexible robots. This continual development holds signifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,772 Views
16 Pages

1 October 2024

This paper presents a data-driven model-free adaptive containment control (MFACC) scheme for uncertain rehabilitation exoskeleton robots, where the robotic exoskeleton dynamics are uncertain with saturation constraints. To handle uncertainties of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,208 Views
16 Pages

Evaluating Stacked Dielectric Elastomer Actuators as Soft Motor Units for Forming Artificial Muscles in Biomimetic Rehabilitation Robots

  • Vahid Mohammadi,
  • Sahel Mohammadi Ghalehney,
  • Mohammad Tajdani,
  • Samuel C. K. Lee and
  • Ahad Behboodi

29 September 2024

The recent commercial availability of stacked dielectric elastomer actuators (SDEAs) has unlocked new opportunities for their application as “artificial skeletal muscles” in rehabilitation robots and powered exoskeletons. Composed of mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rehabilitation Robots and Assistive Devices: A Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Dr. Rory A. Cooper)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,594 Views
32 Pages

24 September 2024

A dynamic LC trajectory planning algorithm based on the modified driving risk field is proposed to address the issue of dynamic changes during the lane-changing (LC) process. First, a modified driving risk field (MDRF) model is constructed for LC sce...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
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