Innovations in Hydrostatic Pumps, Motors, and Fluid Power Systems: Design, Control, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Fluid power remains a critical technology in construction, agriculture, marine, aerospace, and industrial automation. At the core of these systems, hydrostatic pumps and motors provide compact, high-torque, and precise actuation, but there are now stringent demands on efficiency, noise, durability, and intelligent operation that must be met.

This Special Issue of Actuators, “Innovations in Hydrostatic Pumps, Motors, and Fluid Power Systems: Design, Control, and Applications”, seeks cutting-edge contributions that advance the design, modeling, and control of modern hydrostatic pump/motor and fluid power systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Design and Optimization: Highly efficient pump/motor architectures, novel volumetric displacement mechanisms, and noise reduction techniques.
• Advanced Control: Model-based and data-driven control, adaptive control, and integration of AI/Machine Learning for system optimization and fault diagnosis.
• System Integration and Applications: Electro-hydrostatic actuators (EHA), energy-efficient and electrified fluid power, energy recovery, and applications in mobile machinery, robotics, marine/offshore, and renewable energy systems.

We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit their latest findings on how these innovations are shaping the next generation of high-performance, precision, and energy-conscious fluid power technology.

Prof. Dr. Kyoung Kwan Ahn
Dr. Ji-Seong Jang
Dr. Sangwon Ji
Dr. Kyeong-Ju Kong
Guest Editors

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