Design and Real Time Implementation of Intelligent Control Schemes for Actuators
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 753
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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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Dear Colleagues,
An actuator is a device that moves or controls certain mechanisms by turning a control signal into mechanical action, such as an electric motor. Actuators may be based on hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, thermal, or mechanical means and powered by electric current, hydraulic fluid, or pneumatic pressure. However, control algorithms are being increasingly executed over microcontrollers or digital signal processors to drive these actuators. Therefore, a key element in increasing the reliability and improving the performance of these actuators is the control system that should be implemented through software. The limitations of traditional techniques to cope with real control problems have motivated the invention of new schemes to improve control 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 on actuators is aimed at addressing the challenges in control design and implementation in order to increase the reliability of these actuator systems. Original submissions focusing on novel control techniques and the practical implementation of these new control schemes, which would be useful for increasing our knowledge of the promising applications of actuator systems, based on one or more of the following topics, are welcome in this Special Issue. The Issue will include (but is not limited to) the following: Adaptive control schemes; artificial intelligence applied to control systems; fuzzy-logic-based control schemes; neural-network-based control schemes; observer-based control schemes; optimization-based control design.
Prof. Dr. Oscar Barambones
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adaptive control
- robust control
- artificial intelligence
- fuzzy logic
- neural networks
- real time control
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