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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,056 Views
16 Pages

To realize the stable tracking control of the optoelectronic stabilized platform system under nonlinear friction and external disturbance, an active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) with friction compensation is proposed to improve the target...

  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2026

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for a six-degree-of-freedom (DoF) anthropomorphic manipulator operating under actuator faults and complex friction dynamics. The proposed framework integrates a backstepping control methodol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,450 Views
23 Pages

Prostate cancer has one of the highest incidences of male malignant tumors worldwide. Its treatment involves the robotic implantation of radioactive seeds in the perineum, a safe and effective procedure for early, low-risk prostate cancer. In order t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,068 Views
27 Pages

1 September 2025

This paper presents an enhanced pseudo-rigid body model (PRBM) integrated with the LuGre friction law to analyze the dynamic behavior of flexure-hinge-based piezoelectric stick–slip actuators (PSSAs). The PRBM captures flexure compliance throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,517 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2023

Electrode roll-forming refers to rolling a battery electrode into a preset thickness through the electro-hydraulic servo pump-controlled hydraulic roll gap thickness automatic control system (known to as pump-controlled AGC). Compared with the motor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,245 Views
38 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Dynamic Modeling of Ball Joint Friction for Real-Time Applications

  • Kai Pfitzer,
  • Lucas Rath,
  • Sebastian Kolmeder,
  • Burkhard Corves and
  • Günther Prokop

1 October 2025

Ball joints are components of the vehicle axle, and their friction characteristics must be considered when evaluating vibration behavior and ride comfort in driving simulator-based simulations. To model the three-dimensional friction behavior of ball...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,942 Views
19 Pages

12 October 2024

To address the issues of low positional accuracy and significant torque pulsation caused by gear backlash and nonlinear friction in the mechanical transmission mechanism of aeronautical flap electromechanical actuators, we propose a model predictive...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,783 Views
12 Pages

17 May 2021

This paper shows the design and modeling of an end effector with a bidirectional telescopic mechanism to allow a surgical assistant robot to hold and handle surgical instruments. It also presents a force-free control algorithm for the direct teaching...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,770 Views
13 Pages

4 February 2023

In Micromachines, like any mechanical system, friction compensation is an important topic for control design application. In real applications, a nonlinear control scheme has proven to be an efficient method to mitigate the effects of friction. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,286 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2024

This paper focuses on the finite-time tracking control problem of shield tunneling systems in the presence of constraints on the states and control input. By modeling the system based on the LuGre friction model, an effective method of tracking contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,027 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2023

Friction is an inherent nonlinear disturbance that can lead to creeping, jitter, and decreased tracking precision in an electro-hydraulic servo system. In this paper, the LuGre friction model is used to describe the dynamic and static characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,639 Views
19 Pages

A dynamic load simulator, which can reproduce on-ground aerodynamic hinge moment of control surface, is an essential rig for the performance and stability test of an aircraft actuation system. In this paper, an observer-based backstepping adaptive co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,804 Views
29 Pages

15 January 2025

This paper focuses on the theoretical and analytical modeling of a novel seismic isolator termed the Passive Friction Mechanical Metamaterial Seismic Isolator (PFSMBI) system, which is designed for seismic hazard mitigation in multi-story buildings....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,106 Views
13 Pages

2 November 2019

The rolling mill with hydraulic system is widely used in the production of strip steel. For the problem of vertical vibration of the rolling mill, the effects of different equivalent damping coefficient, leakage coefficient, and proportional coeffici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,705 Views
15 Pages

1 August 2020

This paper deals with an experimental study on the modeling and identification of the hysterical behavior of inerters. Unlike existing methods that can only consider a constant inertance to capture a static model of the device, we develop three diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,252 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2023

Friction has long been an important issue in multibody dynamics. Static friction models apply appropriate regularization techniques to convert the stick inequality and the non-smooth stick–slip transition of Coulomb’s approach into a cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,241 Views
30 Pages

10 December 2023

The energy consumption of the electric test vehicle on the roller dynamometer test bench is thoroughly investigated in this work. Initially, we extensively examined the relevant testing approaches on chassis dynamometer test benches. Then, we present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,903 Views
26 Pages

Accuracy Optimization of Robotic Machining Using Grey-Box Modeling and Simulation Planning Assistance

  • Minh Trinh,
  • Michael Königs,
  • Lukas Gründel,
  • Marcel Beier,
  • Oliver Petrovic and
  • Christian Brecher

The aim of this paper is to develop an approach to increase the accuracy of industrial robots for machining processes. During machining tasks, process forces displace the end effector of the robot. A simulation of the various process influences is th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
328 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2025

The dead-zone input and hydraulic cylinder friction of the pump-controlled automatic gauge control (AGC) system introduce significant challenges to the high-precision rolling of lithium battery pole pieces. To address these nonlinearities, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,633 Views
18 Pages

Although many friction models have been developed by various researchers over the years, a general model does not exist yet. In this article, we present the work that was developed to identify and propose an empirical model that represents the behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,885 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of Hydrothermal Aging on the Dynamic Friction Model of Rubber Seals

  • Jian Wu,
  • Hang Luo,
  • Haohao Li,
  • Benlong Su,
  • Youshan Wang and
  • Zhe Li

4 January 2020

Cylinder has become an indispensable and important pneumatic actuator in the development of green production technology. The sealing performance of the cylinder directly affects its safety and reliability. Under the service environment of the cylinde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,808 Views
18 Pages

Pre-Compensation Strategy for Tracking Error and Contour Error by Using Friction and Cross-Coupled Control

  • Minghao Liu,
  • Yongmin Zhu,
  • Hongliang Xu,
  • Weirui Liu,
  • Hui Yang and
  • Xingjun Gao

26 August 2024

This paper focuses on improving the tracking accuracy for servo systems and increasing the contouring performance of precision machining. The dynamic friction during precision machining is analyzed using the LuGre model. The dynamic and static parame...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,240 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2020

Increasing requirements for the safety of human-robot interaction and the cost-effectiveness of collision detection rapidly promote the development of collision detection technology without torque sensors. To address nonlinear disturbance factors in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,258 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2021

Both the dynamic characteristics and structural nonlinearities of an actuator will affect the flutter boundary of a fin–actuator system. The actuator models used in past research are not universal, the accuracy is difficult to guarantee, and the cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,728 Views
21 Pages

Modeling, Identification, and Compensation Control of Friction for a Novel Dual-Drive Hydrostatic Lead Screw Micro-Feed System

  • Yandong Liu,
  • Xianying Feng,
  • Peigang Li,
  • Yanfei Li,
  • Zhe Su,
  • Haiyang Liu,
  • Ziteng Lu and
  • Ming Yao

9 October 2022

This paper investigates the transmission performance of a novel dual-drive hydrostatic lead screw micro-nano feed system (DDHLS) that can obtain extremely low speed. Firstly, the oil film liquid friction of hydrostatic transmission is modelled, and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,088 Views
16 Pages

A Precise Modeling Method for PMSM Servo System of Spacecraft

  • Hang Xu,
  • Zhe Song,
  • Xi Xiao,
  • Yu Mo,
  • Weihong Zhou and
  • Pengfei Wu

30 January 2024

Permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo system is the control and execution mechanism of spacecraft, and its precise modeling is of great practical significance for improving the performance of the spacecraft. A comprehensive model considerin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,179 Views
22 Pages

Adaptive Controller Based on Spatial Disturbance Observer in a Microgravity Environment

  • Chunguang Fan,
  • Zongwu Xie,
  • Yiwei Liu,
  • Chongyang Li and
  • Hong Liu

1 November 2019

In this paper, a new controller for an operating manipulator work in the space microgravity environment is proposed. First, on the basis of the load variation caused by microgravity, a sliding mode control method is used to model the gravity term, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,686 Views
16 Pages

27 July 2022

In the field of transportation, the accurate estimation of tire–road peak friction coefficient (TRPFC) is very important to improve vehicle safety performance and the efficiency of road maintenance. The existing estimation algorithms rarely con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,573 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2022

A compound scheme, based on an improved active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) and nonlinear compensation, is developed for the electromechanical actuator (EMA) system in this paper. First, considering the influences of backlash, friction on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,421 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2022

In this study, to further improve the dynamic performance and steady-state accuracy of the electromagnetic linear actuator (EMLA) for the direct-drive system, the adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode controller (ANTSMC) based on an improved di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,629 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Friction-Slip Model Based on Contact Theory

  • Hui Wang,
  • Jiwen Cui,
  • Jianwei Wu and
  • Jiubin Tan

19 October 2022

In ultra-precision positioning equipment, the positioning accuracy is affected by the friction characteristics, especially the pre-slip stage. At present, the research on friction mainly includes contact theory and the dynamic friction process. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,043 Views
18 Pages

In this paper, a novel nonlinear model and high-precision lifting motion control method of a hydraulic manipulator driven by a proportional valve are presented, with consideration of severe system nonlinearities, various uncertainties as well as valv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,452 Views
16 Pages

3 March 2021

Road-rail vehicles built on traditional vehicle chassis can only switch operation modes at particular areas such as level crossings, thus limiting the working scope and efficiency of routine railway inspection and maintenance. This paper proposes a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,538 Views
13 Pages

Refined Modeling Method and Analysis of an Electromagnetic Direct-Drive Hydrostatic Actuation System

  • Jiayu Lu,
  • Chaofan Gu,
  • Yanjun Zhao,
  • Cao Tan,
  • Yingtao Lu and
  • Changzhong Fu

30 September 2022

The hydrostatic actuation system based on linear actuators improves the complex piston force and long transmission path of the traditional electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA). However, new nonlinear factors in the linear actuator and direct-driven pis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,760 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2022

This work details research on the formation mechanism of wheel polygonalization in high-speed trains and its effect factors by numerical modeling in order to prevent the increasingly prevalent problem of wheel polygonal wear. The lateral self-excited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,708 Views
14 Pages

A Compact Impact Rotary Motor Based on a Piezoelectric Tube Actuator with Helical Interdigitated Electrodes

  • Liling Han,
  • Huining Zhao,
  • Haojie Xia,
  • Chengliang Pan,
  • Yizhou Jiang,
  • Weishi Li and
  • Liandong Yu

7 July 2018

This paper presents a novel impact rotary motor based on a piezoelectric tube actuator with helical interdigitated electrodes which has a compact structure and high resolution. The assembled prototype motor has a maximum diameter of 15 mm and a lengt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,523 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2023

Slipping detection and avoidance are key issues in dexterous robotic manipulation. The capability of robots to grasp and manipulate objects of common use can be greatly enhanced by endowing these robots with force/tactile sensors on their fingertips....

  • Article
  • Open Access
813 Views
26 Pages

FSN-PID Algorithm for EMA Multi-Nonlinear System and Wind Tunnel Experiments Verification

  • Hongqiao Yin,
  • Jun Guan,
  • Guilin Jiang,
  • Yucheng Zheng,
  • Wenjun Yi and
  • Jia Jia

11 August 2025

In order to improve mathematical model accuracy of electromechanical actuator (EMA) and solve the problems of low-frequency response and large overshoot for nonlinear systems by using traditional proportional integral derivative (PID) algorithm, a fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,438 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2021

The electromagnetic linear actuator is used as the core drive unit to achieve high precision and high response in the direct-drive actuation system. In order to improve the response performance and control accuracy of the linear drive unit, an improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,641 Views
37 Pages

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) is a type of magnetic soft material consisting of ferromagnetic particles embedded in a polymeric matrix. MRE-based devices have characteristics of adjustable stiffness and damping properties, and highly nonlinear a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,736 Views
29 Pages

Synthetic Optimization of Trafficability and Roll Stability for Off-Road Vehicles Based on Wheel-Hub Drive Motors and Semi-Active Suspension

  • Xiang Fu,
  • Jiaqi Wan,
  • Daoyuan Liu,
  • Song Huang,
  • Sen Wu,
  • Zexuan Liu,
  • Jijie Wang,
  • Qianfeng Ruan and
  • Tianqi Yang

15 June 2024

Considering the requirements pertaining to the trafficability of off-road vehicles on rough roads, and since their roll stability deteriorates rapidly when turning violently or passing slant roads due to a high center of gravity (CG), an efficient an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,789 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2024

The surgical robots currently used in cardiac surgery are equipped with a remote center of motion (RCM) mechanism that enables the required spherical workspace. The dynamics model of the surgical robot’s RCM mechanism presented in this work inc...