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Supervised Learning Accuracy Versus Closed-Loop Control Performance in Neural Behavioral Cloning of an Integral Sliding-Mode Controller for an Induction Motor Drive

  • Said Bencherifi,
  • Azzeddine Dekhane,
  • Mohamed Faouzi Rachedi,
  • Habib Benbouhenni and ,
  • Riyadh Bouddou and
  • Jun-Jiat Tiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based control is gaining increasing attention in electrical-machine drives as a means of approximating nonlinear control laws through data-driven learning. Neural behavioral cloning provides a practical framework for repr...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,375 Views
21 Pages

Experimental Investigation into Closed-Loop Control for HTPB-Based Hybrid Rocket Motors

  • Guang Tan,
  • Hui Tian,
  • Zhongshuo Wang,
  • Zihao Guo and ,
  • Jingfei Gao,
  • Yuanjun Zhang and
  • Guobiao Cai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Space exploration greatly facilitates the development of advanced propulsion systems. Extensive research has shown that hybrid rocket motors have bright prospects for use in variable-thrust propulsion systems. However, the variable-thrust precision c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Rocket Engines)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,040 Views
17 Pages

Detection of Broken Bars in Induction Motors Operating with Closed-Loop Speed Control

  • Francesca Muzio,
  • Lorenzo Mantione,
  • Tomas Garcia-Calva,
  • Lucia Frosini and
  • Daniel Morinigo-Sotelo

21 September 2024

Rotor bar breakage in induction motors is often detected by analysing the signatures in the stator current. However, due to the alteration of the current spectrum, traditional methods may fail when inverter-fed motors operate with closed-loop control...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)
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  • Open Access
403 Views
32 Pages

A Flux-Vector Direct Torque Control Strategy Based on d,q-Axis Flux Closed-Loop Regulation for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives

  • Jinghong Liu,
  • Wentao Zhang,
  • Guanghui Zhang,
  • Zipeng Chen and ,
  • Eduardo Galvan,
  • Juan M. Carrasco,
  • Pengcheng Zhu and
  • Sergio Vazquez
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 September 2026

In space-vector-modulation-based flux-linkage-loop-free direct torque control (SVM-FLLF-DTC) for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives, the open-loop d-axis voltage control causes an inherent magnetization effect, and the conventional sing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Advances in Electric Motors, Drives and Power Converters Technologies)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,015 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2022

The demand for the high-performance and low-cost position control actuators in many applications promotes the development of three-phase hybrid stepper motors. The torque ripple, loss, and pullout torque of the motor are the key factors to be conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electrical Machine Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,797 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2022

This article explores the throttling aspect of the hybrid rocket motor through experiments using a lab-scale motor. The lab-scale motor utilizes a wax-Al based fuel and compressed air as the oxidizer. The oxidizer flow rate was modulated using a PID...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerospace Combustion Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,795 Views
14 Pages

1 November 2018

Owing to the benefits of programmable and parallel processing of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), they have been widely used for the realization of digital controllers and motor drive systems. Furthermore, they can be used to integrate several...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Speed Motors and Drives: Design, Challenges and Applications)
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  • Open Access
510 Views
35 Pages

From Open-Loop EEG Decoder Development to Real-Time Closed-Loop Control of the RehAnkle Ankle Exoskeleton: A Controller-Level Validation Study

  • Yash Bhambhani,
  • Mario Ortiz,
  • Eduardo Iáñez,
  • Jazmin A. Diaz and ,
  • Javier O. Roa Romero and
  • José M. Azorín
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 August 2026

EEG-based motor imagery (MI) decoding is commonly evaluated in open loop, but strong offline performance does not necessarily translate into stable real-time control once decoder outputs drive a physical device. This issue is especially relevant for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies of Human–Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,643 Views
13 Pages

Compound Control on Constant Synchronous Output of Double Pump-Double Valve-Controlled Motor System

  • Chenhui Zhu,
  • Hongmei Zhang,
  • Wanzhang Wang,
  • Kang Li and ,
  • Zheng Zhou and
  • Hao He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2022

In this paper, a control method featuring double closed-loop compound robust is proposed to deal with the underperformances of double pump-double valve-controlled motors under external interference, such as poor stability of output speed, low control...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Process Control in Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
33 Pages

Closed-Loop Learning-Based PID Tuning for DC Motor Actuators Using Experimental Data

  • Jorge A. Lizarraga,
  • Luis F. Luque-Vega,
  • Javier Ruiz-Leon,
  • Rocío Carrasco-Navarro and ,
  • Marcela E. Mata-Romero,
  • Jesús Antonio Nava-Pintor,
  • Fabián García-Vázquez,
  • Luis O. Solís-Sánchez and
  • Héctor A. Guerrero-Osuna
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

7 August 2026

This paper addresses experimental PID tuning for DC motor actuators when an accurate plant model is unavailable or impractical to obtain. Controller tuning is formulated as a constrained closed-loop optimization process in which each PID gain set is...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,302 Views
15 Pages

Closed-Loop Adaptive High-Starting Torque Scalar Control Scheme for Induction Motor Variable Speed Drives

  • Juan Carlos Travieso-Torres,
  • Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud,
  • Matías Díaz,
  • Camilo Contreras-Jara and
  • Francisco Hernández

10 May 2022

This article proposes a closed-loop (CL) high-starting torque (HST) scalar control scheme (SCS) for induction motors (IM). It endows the recently proposed HST-SCS with high-output torque capability beyond starting after using an outer speed control l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Control of Electrical Motor Drives II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2026

This paper presents an inverse-design method for disturbance observers of single-input single-output (SISO) plants of relative degree one, based on closed-loop transfer function matching. Given a designer-specified target closed-loop transfer functio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: Design, Control, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,238 Views
15 Pages

Stepper motors are employed in a wide range of consumer and industrial applications. Their use is simple: a digital device generates pulse-bursts and a direction bit towards a power driver that produces the 2-phase currents feeding the motor windings...

(This article belongs to the Section Microelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,427 Views
15 Pages

Open-Circuit Fault Mitigation for Inverter-Driven Induction Motor Based on Closed-Loop Volt-per-Hertz

  • Mohammad Alathamneh,
  • Haneen Ghanayem,
  • R. M. Nelms and
  • Ibrahim M. Allafi

23 March 2025

Presented in this paper is a mitigation technique for an open-circuit fault (OCF) in a closed-loop Volt-per-Hertz controlled three-phase induction motor. Conventional proportional–integral (PI) controllers have been found inadequate for maintai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Electrified Transportation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,474 Views
31 Pages

29 August 2025

In order to solve the problem that it is difficult to take into account the performance constraints between the core functions of insulation, current flow and arc extinguishing of high-voltage vacuum circuit breakers at the same time, this paper prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flexible and Secure Operation of Multi-Scenario Integrated Energy System Coupled with Electricity and Hydrogen)
  • Article
  • Open Access
779 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2026

Rice-milling quality is conventionally inspected post-process, leaving operators unable to correct breakage as it occurs. We present and quantitatively validate a cloud-mediated closed-loop architecture that couples a YOLO26 machine-vision pipeline t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,569 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2025

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a key problem in the design of electric vehicle motor drive systems. Based on the system composition and conducted EMI mechanism, an equivalent circuit model including a motor, inverter, cable, and battery is est...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,120 Views
17 Pages

18 May 2016

At present, because of their advantages of simple structure, low cost, low power consumption and high efficiency, single winding bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motors (SBPMSMs) have become one of the research hotspots in the bearingless tec...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,619 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2023

In the field-weakening region, the traditional field-weakening method for induction motor drives based on model predictive control (MPC) is to take a no-load operation as the premise and adjust the flux reference in the cost function proportional to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Intelligent Control in Actuators Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,129 Views
13 Pages

Double-Closed-Loop Model Predictive Control Based on a Linear Induction Motor

  • Shuhang Ma,
  • Jinghong Zhao,
  • Yiyong Xiong,
  • Guangpu Ran and
  • Xing Yao

17 July 2024

The conventional PI control, which has been extensively employed in the high-performance control of linear induction motors, has the benefit of a straightforward concept, quick dynamic response, and simple control. Nevertheless, the linear induction...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,653 Views
17 Pages

9 August 2024

In response to the zooming delay issue during the transition from a wide-area search to high-resolution target identification in high-magnification zoom lenses, we propose a drive technology based on voice coil motors. The linear motion of the motor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optoelectronic Devices and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
406 Views
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Transient Model and Load Voltage Identification Control of Buck–WPT Systems for Wireless-Powered Buses to Achieve Stable Output Voltage Under Wide-Load-Range Conditions

  • Longyang Wang,
  • Weibin Shao,
  • Jiahao Luo,
  • Tiankuo Yang and ,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xiaokang Yin,
  • Xinan Yuan,
  • Xiao Li and
  • Zhenquan Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Magnetically coupled resonant wireless power transfer technology provides a contactless power supply solution for permanent magnet synchronous motors in urban electric buses. By utilizing road-embedded transmitting coils, energy can be harvested in r...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle and Transportation Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,958 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Architecture of a Six Degrees of Freedom Parallel Platform

  • Qiuxiang Gu,
  • Jiawei Tian,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Mingzhe Liu and ,
  • Borui Gu,
  • Zhengtong Yin,
  • Lirong Yin and
  • Wenfeng Zheng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

With the rapid development of the manufacturing industry, industrial automation equipment represented by computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools has put forward higher and higher requirements for the machining accuracy of parts. Compared with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future AI and Robotics: Visual- and Spatial-Based Perception Enhancement and Reasoning)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,522 Views
19 Pages

27 December 2023

Torque control accuracy is a significant index of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) and affects the safety of many applications greatly. Due to the strong nonlinearity of the motor as well as the disturbance of non-ideal factors such as tem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optimization and Control Strategies of Electric Vehicles and Green Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,470 Views
14 Pages

Motorized Treadmill and Optical Recording System for Gait Analysis of Grasshoppers

  • Leslie Barreto,
  • Ahnsei Shon,
  • Derrick Knox,
  • Hojun Song and ,
  • Hangue Park and
  • Jeonghee Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 September 2021

(1) Background: Insects, which serve as model systems for many disciplines with their unique advantages, have not been extensively studied in gait research because of the lack of appropriate tools and insect models to properly study the insect gaits....

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,949 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2021

This paper presents an improved voltage flux-weakening strategy of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) in a high-speed operation. The speed control performance using voltage flux-weakening control is not affected by the motor parameters, so i...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,861 Views
15 Pages

7 August 2022

This study presents a variable incremental controller for flux-weakening control in the high-speed operation area of a permanent-magnetic synchronous motor (PMSM). In general, voltage-based flux-weakening control utilizes a reference voltage and a PI...

(This article belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,778 Views
24 Pages

Design of a Multi-Mode Hybrid Micro-Gripper for Surface Mount Technology Component Assembly

  • Gianmauro Fontana,
  • Nicola Iacono,
  • Simone Pio Negri and
  • Gabriele Papadia

21 July 2023

In the last few decades, industrial sectors such as smart manufacturing and aerospace have rapidly developed, contributing to the increase in production of more complex electronic boards based on SMT (Surface Mount Technology). The assembly phases in...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,414 Views
17 Pages

5 October 2022

Nowadays, position sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor drives are gaining popularity quite rapidly, and have become almost standard in many applications such as compressors, high speed pumps, etc. All of these drives involve estimators to c...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,240 Views
21 Pages

8 December 2021

This paper aims to search for a high-performance low-cost standalone photovoltaic water pumping system (PVWPS) based on a three-phase induction motor (IM). In order to control the IM, a fuzzy direct torque control (FDTC) is proposed in this paper for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,162 Views
15 Pages

A 4 mm Micro Servo Control System in Fiber Positioner

  • Shaoxiong Guo,
  • Yan Yang and
  • Chao Zhai

17 December 2023

As multi-object spectrographs (MOSs) continue to evolve, a notable trend has emerged—the increasing accommodation of fiber positioners on ever-more compact focal planes. This progression has seen the traditional stepper motors being supplanted...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,076 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2021

This paper presents an intelligent permanent magnet synchronous motor-based servo drive system used in automated piano tuning applications. The permanent magnet synchronous motor-based drives are able to improve the accuracy of the piano tuning proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
4,204 Views
15 Pages

FI-NPI: Exploring Optimal Control in Parallel Platform Systems

  • Ruiyang Wang,
  • Qiuxiang Gu,
  • Siyu Lu,
  • Jiawei Tian and ,
  • Zhengtong Yin,
  • Lirong Yin and
  • Wenfeng Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Typically, the current and speed loop closure of servo motor of the parallel platform is accomplished with incremental PI regulation. The control method has strong robustness, but the parameter tuning process is cumbersome, and it is difficult to ach...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,733 Views
17 Pages

10 May 2018

This paper presents a robust current tracking controller for permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) with a performance recovery property for electric power steering (EPS) applications. The contributions of this work are twofold. First, a disturb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,690 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2023

The stabilization of a permanent magnet synchronous motor using digital controllers requires the design of both the feedback law and an appropriate sampling frequency. Moreover, the design approach must be robust against existing uncertainties, such...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,457 Views
14 Pages

Research on Educational Robot System Based on Vision Processing

  • Jianwei Zhao,
  • Yutian Gu,
  • Qifeng Hou and
  • Zhiwei Zhang

16 January 2023

Aimed at the poor recognition effect of current educational robots on objects with complex shapes and colors and the single design of related experiments, this paper proposes a robot teaching instrument. The robot adopts a servo motor with an encoder...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Educational Systems: Hardware and Software Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,274 Views
19 Pages

15 June 2022

Limited-angle torque motor (LATM) is a critical component to precisely drive the valve angle of an engine’s fuel metering apparatus and accurately measure the fuel flow, and research on it is of great significance. Thus, the LATM of a certain k...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advance in Piezoelectric Actuators and Motors)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,547 Views
18 Pages

17 May 2021

One common technique employed in control system design to minimize system model complexity is model order reduction. However, controllers designed by using a reduced-order model have the potential to cause the closed-loop system to become unstable wh...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,675 Views
21 Pages

Design of a Research Laboratory Drive System for a Synchronous Reluctance Motor for Vector Control and Performance Analysis

  • Hamidreza Heidari,
  • Anton Rassõlkin,
  • Ants Kallaste,
  • Toomas Vaimann and ,
  • Ekaterina Andriushchenko and
  • Anouar Belahcen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Motor-drive systems have the most significant share in industrial energy consumption, which requires a deep study in every aspect of the field. This paper presents a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) drive system based on Plecs RT box 1. The syste...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Innovation Papers)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,051 Views
17 Pages

FPGA-Based Controller for a Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive Based on a Four-Level Active-Clamped DC-AC Converter

  • Joan Nicolas-Apruzzese,
  • Emili Lupon,
  • Sergio Busquets-Monge,
  • Alfonso Conesa and ,
  • Josep Bordonau and
  • Gabriel García-Rojas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 October 2018

This paper proposes a closed-loop control implementation fully-embedded into an FPGA for a permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive based on a four-level active-clamped converter. The proposed FPGA controller comprises a field-oriented control...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multilevel Converters: Analysis, Modulation, Topologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,880 Views
18 Pages

A Real-Time SOSM Super-Twisting Technique for a Compound DC Motor Velocity Controller

  • Onofre A. Morfin,
  • Carlos E. Castañeda,
  • Antonio Valderrabano-Gonzalez,
  • Miguel Hernandez-Gonzalez and
  • Fredy A. Valenzuela

29 August 2017

In this paper, a real-time robust closed-loop control scheme for controlling the velocity of a Direct Current (DC) motor in a compound connection is proposed. This scheme is based on the state-feedback linearization technique combined with a second-o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,888 Views
15 Pages

5 January 2023

To realize permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) in the full speed domain without speed sensor operation, a hybrid control method combining I/F startup and extended Kalman filter (EKF) is proposed in this paper. This method employs I/F startup to...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,546 Views
14 Pages

Development of an IoT Electrostimulator with Closed-Loop Control

  • Túlio Fernandes De Almeida,
  • Luiz Henrique Bertucci Borges and
  • André Felipe Oliveira de Azevedo Dantas

7 May 2022

The most used approach in the motor rehabilitation of spinal cord injury is functional electrical stimulation. However, current devices do not provide real-time feedback, work in the closed-loop, and became remotely operable. In this scenario, this p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Sensors in Biomechanics, Health Disease and Rehabilitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
888 Views
14 Pages

24 February 2026

The proportional integral derivative (PI) controller remains the predominant algorithm employed in engineering applications. Nevertheless, existing PI tuning methodologies, whether classical or contemporary, are often characterized by indirectness an...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
861 Views
13 Pages

15 July 2026

Closed-loop neuromodulation systems for spinal cord injury (SCI) comprise a sensor layer that detects motor state or intent, a controller that converts this information into stimulation commands, and a stimulation interface that modulates spinal, per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing Technologies to Facilitate Clinical/Medical Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 Views
17 Pages

An Elaborate Dynamic Model of the Dual-Motor Precision Transmission Mechanism for Performance Optimization

  • Jieji Zheng,
  • Xin Xie,
  • Ruoyu Tan,
  • Lingyu Chen and ,
  • Baoyu Li and
  • Dapeng Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 December 2022

The dual-motor precision transmission mechanism (DMPTM) is an alternative way to eliminate backlash while ensuring the stiffness of the servo system. However, most of the established models of DMPTM are not accurate enough, and are not conducive to t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Analysis of Multibody Mechanical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,958 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2022

This paper proposes a high-resolution permanent magnet (PM) motor drive based on acceleration estimation and control. The PM motor is widely implemented in the printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing process. To achieve the demanded 1 μm drillin...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,867 Views
23 Pages

A Gap Nonlinearity Compensation Strategy for Non-Direct-Drive Servo Systems

  • Bo Wang,
  • Runze Ji,
  • Chengpeng Zhou,
  • Rana M. Sohel and ,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Wei Hua and
  • Hairong Ye
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2024

In this paper, a gap nonlinear compensation strategy is proposed for the full closed-loop control structure of non-direct-drive servo motor systems. Firstly, an improved deadband model containing the initial value of the gap is proposed, and two gap...

(This article belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,716 Views
23 Pages

25 September 2018

A large number of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are used to drive coal conveyer belts in coal enterprises. Sensorless energy conservation control has important economic value for these enterprises. The key problem of sensorless energy c...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
982 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2026

Aiming at the problem that the position control accuracy of the traditional semi-closed-loop control and the vibration caused by the nonlinear characteristics of the system are easily affected by the full closed-loop control, a double-loop position f...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

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