Actuators, Volume 14, Issue 9

Increasing global food production to address challenges from population growth, labor shortages, and climate change necessitates a significant enhancement of agricultural sustainability. Autonomous agricultural machinery, a recognized application of...

In recent years, pneumatic proportional valves have become increasingly prevalent in ventilators, particularly proportional solenoid valves. However, these traditional valves face challenges, including a slow response, being prone to overheating from...

The huge growth in the utilisation of six-axis robots in various technological applications in production calls for a detailed focus on the process of preparing Numerical Control (NC) programmes for effective robot control. Considerable attention is...

This paper addresses the cruise range maximization problem for hypersonic drones by proposing a combined aerodynamic force/thrust vector trajectory optimization method. A novel continuous linear parameterization strategy for trajectory optimization i...

Since the successful implementation of microfluidic technology in biomedical applications, research on micropumps—the central component of these systems—has gained significant momentum. Benefiting from advancements in pump materials and c...

This study explores a novel approach of using large language models (LLMs) in the real-time Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) control of a physical system, the Quanser QUBE-Servo 2. We investigated whether LLMs, used with an Artifici...

Reliable fault diagnosis of rotating machines under extreme conditions—strong speed, load variation, intense noise, and severe class imbalance—remains a critical industrial challenge. We develop an ultra-light yet robust framework to accu...

This primary study aims to optimize network resource utilization efficiency in marine control systems. A novel event-triggering condition is proposed to significantly reduce communication traffic, where the error norm is squared while the input norm...

Gallium-based room-temperature liquid metal is a promising multifunctional material for microfluidics and precision machining due to its high mobility and deformability. However, precise motion control of gallium-based liquid metal droplets, especial...

This paper investigates the attitude control problems of spacecraft subject to external disturbances and compound actuator faults, including both additive and multiplicative components. To address these problems, an improved learning observer (ILO) i...