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Actuators, Volume 14, Issue 1

January 2025 - 41 articles

Cover Story: The inspection of underwater structures is often hampered by harsh environmental conditions, limited access, high costs, and inherent safety issues. This paper focuses on an underwater rover to implement automated imaging techniques. There has been little work on image-based techniques for detecting and quantifying the extent of structural damage, particularly in submerged marine structures. This work seeks to address this knowledge gap through the development and performance evaluation of underwater photogrammetry. Experimental photogrammetry tests were carried out on an anchor, and their results were compared, both in and out of the sea environment, to validate the model presented. The results obtained so far confirm the validity of the approach and encourage future development for underwater inspections. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,459 Views
24 Pages

20 January 2025

The vibration of a ship’s propulsion shaft system directly affects the ship’s lifespan, and many studies have designed vibration absorbers only for one of the natural frequencies of a ship’s propulsion shaft system without consideri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,349 Views
17 Pages

Optimization Study of Pneumatic–Electric Combined Braking Strategy for 30,000-ton Heavy-Haul Trains

  • Mingtao Zhang,
  • Congjin Shi,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Guoyun Liu,
  • Zhiwei Wang and
  • Weihua Zhang

20 January 2025

The normalized operation of 30,000-ton heavy-haul trains is of significant importance for enhancing the transportation capacity of heavy-haul railways. However, with the increase in train formation size, traditional braking strategies result in exces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,365 Views
27 Pages

18 January 2025

Transfer learning has garnered significant interest in the field of bearing fault diagnosis under varying operational conditions due to its robust generalization capabilities. However, real-world diagnostic scenarios frequently encounter data imbalan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,445 Views
17 Pages

Speed Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Based on Variable Fractional-Order Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller

  • Liping Chen,
  • Haoyu Liu,
  • Ze Cao,
  • António M. Lopes,
  • Lisheng Yin,
  • Guoquan Liu and
  • Yangquan Chen

18 January 2025

A variable fractional-order (VFO) fuzzy sliding mode controller is designed to control the speed of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). First, a VFO sliding mode surface is established. Then, a VFO fuzzy sliding mode controller is designed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,048 Views
24 Pages

Intelligent Robust Control of Roadheader Based on Disturbance Observer

  • Shuo Wang,
  • Dongjie Wang,
  • Aixiang Ma,
  • Xihao Yan and
  • Sihai Zhao

17 January 2025

The formation of a coal mine roadway cross-section is a primary task of the boom-type roadheader. This paper proposes an intelligent robust control scheme for the cutting head trajectory of a coal mine tunneling robot, which is susceptible to unknown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,028 Views
21 Pages

17 January 2025

In complex real-world traffic environments, the task of automatic lane changing becomes extremely challenging for vehicle control systems. Traditional control methods often lack the flexibility and intelligence to accurately capture and respond to dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,114 Views
19 Pages

A New Dual Steering System in a Compact Tractor

  • Giorgio Paolo Massarotti,
  • German Filippini,
  • Gustavo Raush Alviach,
  • Pedro Javier Gamez-Montero and
  • Esteban Codina Macia

17 January 2025

To achieve optimal controllability in a dual steering tractor (a four-wheel, iso-diametric tractor equipped with a dual-hydraulic steering system), this study proposes a coordinated approach that combines experimental testing (using a special agricul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,213 Views
20 Pages

Development of a Small-Working-Volume Plunger Hydraulic Pump with Improved Performance Characteristics

  • Alexey N. Beskopylny,
  • Denis Medvedev,
  • Vyacheslav Grishchenko and
  • Evgeniy Ivliev

16 January 2025

Current trends in the development of technology are linked inextricably to the increasing level of automation in technological processes and production systems. In this regard, the development of systems for supplying working fluids with adjustable p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,642 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Modeling and Structure Optimization for Magnetic Levitation Planar Machine Using PCB Coils

  • Han Zhang,
  • Jiawen He,
  • Xianze Xu,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Manman Xu and
  • Fengqiu Xu

16 January 2025

Magnetically levitated (ML) systems that incorporate PCB coils represent a growing trend in precision machining, valued for their controllable current flow and high fill factor. The size of modern power devices is decreasing to enhance power density,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,992 Views
36 Pages

15 January 2025

The operational environments of engineering systems are becoming increasingly complex and require automatic control systems to be more intelligent. Cognitive control extends the domain of intelligent control, whereby cognitive science theories are ap...

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