Actuators, Volume 14, Issue 8

Control valves in nuclear systems operate under high-pressure differentials generating intense transient fluid forces that induce destructive structural vibrations, risking resonance and the valve stem fracture. In this study, computational fluid dyn...

For transmission systems with regular order excitation, the order vibration will be conducted to each component of the system and affect the stability and service life of the system. A method with a regular non-circular active pulley is proposed in t...

Accurate segmentation of densely stacked and weakly textured objects remains a core challenge in robotic depalletizing for industrial applications. To address this, we propose MaskNet, an instance segmentation network tailored for RGB-D input, design...

This study proposes the Weight-Incorporating A* (WIA*) algorithm for mobile robot path planning. The WIA* algorithm integrates three weight factors into the Conventional A* cost function: an Obstacle Collision (OC) weight factor for collision avoidan...

Shaded-pole induction motors are the most frequently used single-phase electric motors in low power applications. Their main advantages are reliability, robustness, low level of noise and vibration, relatively simple manufacturing technology and cost...

This paper studies the adaptive practical tracking control (PTC) problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems (UNSs) with nontriangular structured uncertain terms and unknown parameters, where the boundary of nontriangular structured uncertain...

In this paper, the effective bulk modulus of pump-controlled hydraulic cylinders is studied in the context of linear time-invariant modeling and control. Using an experimental test-rig, the minimum expected value of the effective bulk modulus is iden...

Robots are increasingly emerging as effective platforms to overcome a wide range of challenges in agriculture. Beyond functioning as standalone systems, agricultural robots are proving valuable as collaborative platforms, capable of supporting and in...

The control of following motion under mesoscale gap flow fields has important applications. The flexible characteristics of the plant, wideband time-varying disturbances caused by the flow field, and requirements of high precision and low overshoot m...

To improve the ability of line-commutated converters (LCCs) to resist commutation failure (CF) when a fault occurs on the AC side, a novel sub-module-based LCC topology actively resistant to CF is proposed in this paper. The control strategy and the...