Advanced High-Precision Control Systems in Industrial Applications
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1742
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Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous advancement of industrial automation and high-end equipment manufacturing technologies, advanced high-precision control systems have become the core foundation for improving industrial production accuracy, operational efficiency and equipment reliability. As the core "brain and nerve center" of modern industrial equipment, these systems are widely used in a full spectrum of industrial scenarios, including precision machining equipment, CNC machine tools, industrial robotic systems, aerospace manufacturing, new energy equipment, intelligent logistics systems, and high-end testing and inspection facilities. High-precision control systems not only directly determine the operation quality and production efficiency of industrial equipment, but also drive the high-end and intelligent upgrading of the industrial sector, playing an irreplaceable role in core industrial links such as precision component processing, mechanical assembly, multi-equipment collaborative operations, and high-accuracy closed-loop control. Efficient motion planning, dynamic performance optimization and advanced control strategies are essential prerequisites to ensure the efficient, stable and reliable operation of the system under complex and variable industrial conditions.
High-precision control performance is particularly critical in multi-equipment and multi-axis collaborative industrial operations. Such systems usually consist of multiple control units and actuators, where each unit realizes independent high-precision closed-loop control while coordinating with others to complete the overall industrial task. Accurate position, velocity and torque control form the fundamental guarantee for the processing and assembly quality of complex industrial workpieces. To achieve ultra-high-precision operations in industrial scenarios, the system must not only realize accurate control of a single unit, but also maintain high-level coordination and synchronization between multiple units, so as to avoid cumulative positioning errors, out-of-sync deviations and system instability. Effective disturbance suppression, vibration control and intelligent control strategies can further enhance the stability and reliability of the system, especially under harsh working conditions such as high-speed operation, flexible load changes and extreme industrial environments.
In practical industrial applications, high-precision control systems face multiple technical challenges, including non-ideal interconnection characteristics of equipment networks, complex and time-varying on-site working conditions, harsh environmental disturbances, and stringent requirements for long-term operation safety and reliability of industrial equipment, all of which may adversely affect the response speed, control accuracy and robustness of the system. The rapid development of industrial embodied intelligence, environmental perception and industrial Internet of Things technologies enables the control system to acquire real-time structured industrial scene information, equipment operation status and task constraints, providing intelligent decision-making support for high-precision industrial operations, and significantly improving the autonomy, adaptability and reliability of the system in complex industrial environments.
With the breakthrough development of artificial intelligence, big data and large model technologies, advanced high-precision control systems are endowed with stronger capabilities in high-level task planning, autonomous decision-making and dynamic optimization. Data-driven control strategy optimization, action generation and task planning methods enable the system to realize autonomous decision-making and precise operations in multi-task, multi-objective and strongly coupled complex industrial environments, promoting the upgrading of industrial control systems from traditional closed-loop control to intelligent and autonomous advanced control architectures. These emerging technologies, deeply integrated with traditional core technologies including high-precision motion control, multi-system collaboration, disturbance suppression and robustness enhancement, collectively form the technical cornerstone of the new generation of industrial-grade advanced high-precision control systems.
The aim of this Special Issue of Actuators is to present state-of-the-art investigations into advanced high-precision control systems and explore theoretical innovations, technological breakthroughs, and engineering application practices across various industrial fields. We invite researchers and engineering practitioners from academia and industry to submit original and high-quality research articles, as well as comprehensive review articles. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- High-precision position, velocity and torque control technology and dynamic response optimization for industrial systems;
- High-performance disturbance rejection, vibration suppression and stability enhancement for industrial precision control systems;
- Motor drive technology and system collaborative control algorithms for industrial equipment;
- Multi-axis/multi-equipment cooperative control, synchronous control and error compensation technology in industrial applications;
- Robustness and reliability enhancement of high-precision control systems in complex industrial environments;
- Fault diagnosis, health monitoring and fault-tolerant control of industrial precision control systems;
- Application and optimization of intelligent control algorithms in industrial high-precision control systems;
- Real-time monitoring and adaptive adjustment of high-precision control systems for industrial scenarios;
- Novel advanced control theories, methods and technologies for industrial precision control;
- Trajectory planning and dynamic optimization of industrial robotic arms and intelligent equipment;
- Vibration suppression and intelligent control of industrial robotic manipulators;
- Environmental perception and scene understanding for industrial embodied intelligent systems;
- Large-model-driven action generation and task planning for industrial control systems;
- Innovation of engineering practice and applications of high-precision control systems in various industrial fields.
Dr. Yaoming Zhuang
Prof. Dr. Chengdong Wu
Dr. Jingyu Ru
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-precision control systems and actuators
- control systems and actuators dedicated to industrial applications
- multi-axis cooperative control and actuators
- intelligent control and actuators
- industrial robotics and actuators
- control systems and actuators dedicated to Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
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