New Control Schemes for Actuators—3rd Edition
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Control Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent control; advanced control; robust control; adaptive control; wind turbine systems; PV systems; wireless control schemes; wireless sensor networks; smart sensors and actuators
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Interests: advanced control of electric machines; power electronics; renewable energy; intelligent control; neural network control; fuzzy logic control; linear system control
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Interests: sliding mode control; robust control; model predictive control; adaptive control; three-phase machine control; nonlinear system control; linear system control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to participate in the third edition of this Special Issue, entitled “New Control Schemes for Actuators—3rd Edition”.
An actuator is a device that moves or controls a mechanism. It turns a control signal into a mechanical action, such as an electric motor. Actuators may be based on hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, thermal, or mechanical means and may be powered by an electric current, hydraulic fluid, or pneumatic pressure. However, control algorithms are increasingly executed over a microcontroller or digital signal processor in order to drive these actuators.
Therefore, control systems implemented by software are key to increasing the reliability and performance of these actuators. The limitations of traditional control techniques for real control problems have motivated the invention of new control schemes to improve performance.
Therefore, due to the nonlinear dynamics and uncertainties usually present in actuators, the reliability and performance of these systems can be enhanced by employing advanced control schemes and/or using artificial intelligence.
This Special Issue of Actuators addresses the challenges in control design and implementation for actuators in order to increase the reliability and performance of these systems. Original submissions focusing on new control techniques and their practical implementation are welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Adaptive control schemes;
- Robust control schemes;
- Artificial Intelligence applied to control systems;
- Sliding-mode-based control schemes;
- Fuzzy-logic-based control schemes;
- Neural-network-based control schemes;
- Observer-based control schemes;
- The practical implementation of advanced control schemes;
- Wireless sensors in control schemes.
Prof. Dr. Oscar Barambones
Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Cortajarena
Prof. Dr. Patxi Alkorta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent control
- real-time implementation
- nonlinear control
- robust control
- observer-based control
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