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6 Citations
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24 May 2021

Image denoising, a classic ill-posed problem, aims to recover a latent image from a noisy measurement. Over the past few decades, a considerable number of denoising methods have been studied extensively. Among these methods, supervised deep convoluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,245 Views
18 Pages

Practical Adaptive Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Servo Motors

  • Kamran Ali,
  • Zhenwei Cao,
  • Kamal Rsetam and
  • Zhihong Man

22 November 2023

Position control of servo motor systems is a challenging task because of inevitable factors such as uncertainties, nonlinearities, parametric variations, and external perturbations. In this article, to alleviate the above issues, a practical adaptive...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,714 Views
18 Pages

28 May 2024

In response to the trajectory tracking control problem of manipulators under measurement disturbances, a novel multi-input multi-output discrete integral terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Initially, this scheme establishes a dynamic m...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,135 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2020

In this study, the design of an adaptive terminal sliding mode controller for the stabilization of port Hamiltonian chaotic systems with hidden attractors is proposed. This study begins with the design methodology of a chaotic oscillator with a hidde...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,556 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2023

An adaptive backstepping terminal sliding mode control (ABTSMC) method based on a multiple−layer fuzzy neural network is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems with parameter variations and external disturbances in this study. The proposed n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,910 Views
13 Pages

Barrier-Function-Based Adaptive Fast-Terminal Sliding-Mode Control for a PMSM Speed-Regulation System

  • Xin Che,
  • Zelong Ma,
  • Xinda Qi,
  • Wenxian Li,
  • Haipeng Niu and
  • Changxiang Yan

Barrier-function-based adaptive fast-terminal sliding-mode control approaches have been devised to enhance the precision of speed regulation of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs). Firstly, the speed loop utilizes fast-terminal sliding-mode c...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,926 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2022

In order to improve the efficiency of human–robot interaction (HRI), it is necessary to carry out research on precise control of the manipulator. In this paper, an adaptive non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed for...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,917 Views
21 Pages

27 January 2023

Aimed at resolving the trajectory tracking control problem of aerial manipulation, this paper presents an aerial manipulation system that consists of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a two-degree-of-freedom manipulator. The system adopte...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,269 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2023

This article aims to develop a new Adaptive Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Nonsingular Dual Terminal Sliding Mode Control, designed for tracking the position of robot manipulators under disturbances and uncertainties. Compared with existing P...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,324 Views
26 Pages

10 October 2024

Differential evolution is capable of searching for the optimum for different types of optimization problems with a few inputs, which has gained worldwide popularity. In this paper, we propose a parameters adaptation scheme based on the stagnation rat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,892 Views
19 Pages

To realize high-performance control for the inertially stabilized platform, a compound control method based on the adaptive linear extended state observer and global fast terminal sliding mode control is proposed. For estimating the unknown disturban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,899 Views
24 Pages

18 January 2025

We address the problems in the trajectory tracking control of a multi-joint robotic arm, including uncertainty in the internal modeling of its significant external unknown time-varying disturbances. With the control objective of tracking the desired...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,453 Views
20 Pages

Barrier Function Adaptive Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Approach for Quad-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Khalid A. Alattas,
  • Omid Mofid,
  • Abdullah K. Alanazi,
  • Hala M. Abo-Dief,
  • Andrzej Bartoszewicz,
  • Mohsen Bakouri and
  • Saleh Mobayen

25 January 2022

This paper proposes a barrier function adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode controller for a six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) quad-rotor in the existence of matched disturbances. For this reason, a linear sliding surface according to the tracking...

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1,467 Views
26 Pages

27 July 2023

This paper proposes a multi-terminal adaptive collaborative operation method for solving the problem of unstable internal force tracking in the clamping and handling of unknown objects by multi-terminal robots. In the proposed method, the internal co...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,671 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2022

Determining where to stack the containers at the storage yard of a container terminal is an important problem because that decision critically affects the efficiency of container handling in the yard and, eventually, the efficiency of the vessel oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,564 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2022

This paper proposes an adaptive barrier function terminal sliding mode control method for partial seizure based on the Pinsky–Rinzel model. A terminal sliding mode control technique is designed to achieve the convergence of trajectories to the...

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  • Open Access
562 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2025

Time-varying lumped disturbance and measurement noise are primary obstacles that restrict the control performance of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. To tackle these obstacles, an adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode (ANTSM) al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,864 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, an adaptive terminal sliding-mode control (ATSMC) method is proposed for the synchronization of uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems with disturbances. According to the sliding-mode control theory, a non-singular sliding surface...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,235 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2019

To solve the problems of DC voltage control and power allocation in the hybrid multi-terminal high voltage direct current system effectively, a DC voltage adaptive droop control strategy based on DC voltage-current characteristics is proposed. Based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,164 Views
22 Pages

Adaptive Backstepping Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Hydro-Turbine Governor Design

  • Yu-Chen Lin,
  • Valentina Emilia Balas,
  • Marius Mircea Balas and
  • Jian-Zhang Peng

25 December 2019

To investigate a typical large-scale nonlinear hydropower system (HS) with a stochastic water flow, a novel nonlinear adaptive control scheme, which is created by the combination of a backstepping strategy, nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode surf...

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  • Open Access
473 Views
29 Pages

18 December 2025

Quadrotor UAVs benefit from control strategies that can deliver rapid convergence and strong robustness in order to fully exploit their high agility. Finite-time control based on terminal sliding modes has been recognized as an effective alternative...

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  • Open Access
698 Views
29 Pages

24 October 2025

Cross-docking has emerged as a critical logistics strategy to reduce lead times, lower inventory levels, and enhance supply chain responsiveness. However, in high-throughput terminals, efficient coordination of inbound and outbound trailers remains a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,455 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2025

This study proposes an adaptive non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC)-based direct yaw moment control (DYC) strategy to enhance driving stability in four-wheel independent drive (4WID) electric vehicles. Unlike conventional SMC, th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,138 Views
16 Pages

22 June 2025

In this paper, the load frequency control (LFC) of multi-area power systems incorporating photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems (ESSs) is studied. First, the model of the LFC system encompassing PV and ESS is established. Then, a novel LFC sch...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,605 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2024

This work proposes an adaptive rapid terminal SMC (sliding mode control) approach based on the FFTSO (fast finite-time state observer) for overhead crane trajectory tracking and anti-swing control in the presence of external disturbances and paramete...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,162 Views
17 Pages

5 April 2024

In the actual implementation of autonomous vehicle controller and related applications, it is difficult to obtain all the actual parameters of the vehicle. Considering factors such as uneven pavement and different pavement conditions, it is difficult...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,683 Views
31 Pages

An adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with extended state observer (ESO) is proposed for the trajectory tracking of an underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS), where the system is subjected to the lumped disturbances...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,774 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2023

The regulation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is a challenge due to their complex biological and chemical characteristics and their accurate mathematical model is generally not accessible because of the limitation of available measurements. T...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,845 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2023

This paper presents a novel adaptive fast-terminal neuro-sliding mode control (AFTN-SMC) for a two-link robot manipulator with unknown dynamics and external disturbances. The proposed controller is chattering-free and adaptive to the time-varying sys...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,187 Views
15 Pages

29 August 2023

The prerequisite for the normal operation of a flexible high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system is the maintenance of the stability of the direct current (DC)-side voltage, and droop control has a good dynamic regulation capability. In...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
766 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Gain-Based Double-Loop Full-Order Terminal Sliding Mode Control of a Surface-Mounted PMSM System

  • Minghao Zhou,
  • Xueran Fei,
  • Wei Xu,
  • William Cai,
  • Ying Xie and
  • Zizhen Qiu

19 April 2025

This article proposes a new adaptive gain, full-order terminal sliding mode control algorithm for the speed regulation of a surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM) control system. To deal with the mismatched uncertainties in the do...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,826 Views
23 Pages

Aiming at the problem of the large tracking error of the desired curve for the automatic train operation (ATO) control strategy, an ATO control algorithm based on RBF neural network adaptive terminal sliding mode fault-tolerant control (ATSM-FTC-RBFN...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,989 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2025

Sliding Mode Control (SMC) has gained significant attention due to its simplicity, robustness, and rapid response in ensuring system stability, particularly with the Lyapunov approach. Despite its advantages, SMC faces challenges such as chattering n...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
931 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2025

This study proposes a novel fuzzy disturbance observer (FDO)-augmented adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (NTSMC) framework for multi-joint robotic manipulators, addressing critical challenges in trajectory tracking precision and dist...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,798 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Shape Memory Alloy Actuated System

  • Xiaoguang Li,
  • Wenzhuo Zhi,
  • Enming Shi,
  • Xiaoliang Fan,
  • Ming Zhao and
  • Bi Zhang

19 September 2024

Due to its high power-to-weight ratio, low weight, and silent operation, shape memory alloy (SMA) is widely used as a muscle-like soft actuator in intelligent bionic robot systems. However, hysteresis nonlinearity and multi-valued mapping behavior ca...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,182 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Maximum Power Point Tracking of a WECS-PMSG

  • Muhammad Maaruf,
  • Md Shafiullah,
  • Ali T. Al-Awami and
  • Fahad S. Al-Ismail

3 December 2021

This paper investigates maximum power extraction from a wind-energy-conversion system (WECS) with a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) operating in standalone mode. This was achieved by designing a robust adaptive nonsingular fast terminal...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,412 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2022

Due to the high center of gravity of distributed drive electric buses, it is crucial to enhance their stability and sliding mode control (SMC) is an effective method to enhance vehicle yaw stability. However, the traditional SMC needs to know the upp...

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  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,836 Views
17 Pages

10 December 2018

In this study, a robust control strategy is suggested for industrial robotic manipulators. First, to minimize the effects of disturbances and dynamic uncertainties, while achieving faster response times and removing the singularity problem, a nonsing...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,447 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Investigation of Thermal Performance with Adaptive Terminal Devices for Cold Aisle Containment in Data Centers

  • Hongyin Chen,
  • Dezhi Li,
  • Songcen Wang,
  • Tianheng Chen,
  • Ming Zhong,
  • Yi Ding,
  • Ye Li and
  • Xianxu Huo

17 January 2023

The energy consumption of data center cooling systems accounts for a large proportion of total energy consumption. The optimization of airflow organization is one of the most important methods to improve the energy efficiency of cooling systems. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,012 Views
22 Pages

31 August 2023

In this paper, an adaptive neural network global fractional order fast terminal sliding mode model-free intelligent PID control strategy (termed as TDE-ANNGFOFTSMC-MFIPIDC) is proposed for the hypersonic vehicle ground thermal environment simulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,975 Views
27 Pages

8 July 2024

Compared with traditional control methods, moving mass control (MMC) enhances the aerodynamic efficiency and stealth performance of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (FWUAVs), thereby facilitating their broader application in military and civilian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,093 Views
14 Pages

In container sea–rail combined transport, the railway yard in an automated container terminal (RYACT) is the link in the whole logistics transportation process, and its operation and scheduling efficiency directly affect the efficiency of logis...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,859 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2020

In order to improve the performance in the practical engineering applications including so called low-speed video tracking and large-angle swing scanning imaging at the same time for a three-axis universal inertially stabilized platform (UISP), we pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,617 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, a novel fractional-order global fast terminal sliding mode control (FGFTSMC) strategy based on an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural network is proposed to improve the performance of a medium density fiberboard (MDF) continuou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,787 Views
15 Pages

Synchronization of a Non-Equilibrium Four-Dimensional Chaotic System Using a Disturbance-Observer-Based Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control Method

  • Shaojie Wang,
  • Amin Yousefpour,
  • Abdullahi Yusuf,
  • Hadi Jahanshahi,
  • Raúl Alcaraz,
  • Shaobo He and
  • Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco

27 February 2020

In this paper, dynamical behavior and synchronization of a non-equilibrium four-dimensional chaotic system are studied. The system only includes one constant term and has hidden attractors. Some dynamical features of the governing system, such as inv...

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270 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2025

Most control strategies for magnetic bearings are typically formulated upon the linearized suspension force model, and the nonlinear characteristics are neglected or regarded as the disturbance and variation in parameters of the control system. The c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,067 Views
25 Pages

30 April 2022

This paper presents a strategy for a thermal-structural test with quartz lamp heaters (TSTQLH), combined with an ultra-local model, a closed-loop controller, a linear extended state observer (LESO), and an auxiliary controller. The TSTQLH is a real t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,935 Views
22 Pages

8 May 2019

There are various uncertain factors such as parameter perturbation and external disturbance during the steering process of a permanent magnet slip clutch electronically controlled hydraulic power steering system (P-ECHPS) of medium and heavy duty veh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,344 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2022

To improve the sensorless control performance of electrical drive systems, a nonsingular terminal sliding mode observer (NTSMO) and adaptive observer are proposed to solve the chattering and phase delay problems. Firstly, by defining a new nonsingula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,829 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2020

In recent years, China’s terminal clean power replacement construction has experienced rapid development, and China’s installed photovoltaic and wind energy capacity has soared to become the highest in the world. Precise and effective pre...

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