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A Hierarchical Shared Steering Control Strategy Based on Driver States

  • Quanjin Wang,
  • Lina Xuan,
  • Jiwei Feng and
  • Jian Wu

23 July 2026

Continuous shared control provides an effective approach for intelligent vehicles to balance driving autonomy and system safety boundaries in complex human–machine interaction scenarios. However, existing shared control methods fail to dynamica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control in Autonomous Robotic Systems)
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3,756 Views
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Utilizing Sequential Control Scheme to Stabilize Squeezed Vacuum States

  • Long Tian,
  • Xiaocong Sun,
  • Qingwei Wang,
  • Jinrong Wang and ,
  • Wenxiu Yao,
  • Junping Wang,
  • Yaohui Zheng and
  • Kunchi Peng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 May 2019

We report on a sequential control scheme to realize a steady, quasi-continuous output of squeezed vacuum states, which eliminates the influence of the seed beam on the squeezing strength. The scheme, originating from time-division multiplexing, separ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing 2018)
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BioEdge-Rx: From Regenerative Control States to Biologically Compilable Therapeutic Policies for Optic Nerve Repair

  • Răzvan Buga,
  • Călin Gheorghe Buzea,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Valentin Nedeff and ,
  • Diana Mirilă,
  • Mirela Panainte-Lehăduș,
  • Maricel Agop,
  • Letiția Doina Duceac,
  • Ioana Știrban and
  • Lucian Eva
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

9 November 2026

Background/Objectives: Distinct responses to optic-nerve injury motivate multidimensional, state-dependent control rather than a universal regeneration score. We tested whether public perturbational transcriptomes could define interpretable states an...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensory and Motor Neuroscience)
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2 Citations
779 Views
25 Pages

20 December 2025

This article delves into the fuzzy finite-time adaptive control problem for uncertain nonlinear systems where state measurements are unavailable, nonlinear functions are unknown, and communication is limited. To emulate the unknown nonlinear relation...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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31 Citations
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Quadcopter UAVs Extended States/Disturbance Observer-Based Nonlinear Robust Backstepping Control

  • Ha Le Nhu Ngoc Thanh,
  • Tuan Tu Huynh,
  • Mai The Vu,
  • Nguyen Xuan Mung and ,
  • Nguyen Ngoc Phi,
  • Sung Kyung Hong and
  • Truong Nguyen Luan Vu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 July 2022

A trajectory tracking control for quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on a nonlinear robust backstepping algorithm and extended state/disturbance observer (ESDO) is presented in this paper. To obtain robust attitude stabilization and super...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances on UAVs’ GN&C (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) Technology)
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2 Citations
2,008 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2022

A novel adaptive control method is designed for the uncertain nonlinear systems with quantized states under the condition that system nonlinearities do not satisfy the Lipschitz condition. In this paper, the global control for an uncertain nonlinear...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,692 Views
20 Pages

11 January 2025

A distributed adaptive fuzzy event-triggered bipartite formation tracking control scheme is proposed for switched nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with function constraints on states. Fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are used to identify uncertain item...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Design of Linear/Nonlinear Control System)
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4 Citations
2,944 Views
13 Pages

A Comparison of Vaccination Policies and Immunity Assessment for Measles Control: Insights from the United States and Japan

  • Naruhito Otani,
  • Toshiomi Okuno,
  • Toshie Tsuchida,
  • Kaori Ishikawa and ,
  • Kaoru Ichiki,
  • Takashi Ueda,
  • Satoshi Higasa and
  • Kazuhiko Nakajima
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2025

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease and remains a global health challenge despite the availability of effective vaccines. Although many regions have successfully eliminated measles, outbreaks continue to occur owing to vaccine hesitancy, ina...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measles, Mumps, and Rubella)
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15 Citations
4,728 Views
20 Pages

This paper presents the design of a linear quadratic (LQ) optimal controller for a spar-type floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). The FOWT is exposed to different sea states and constant wind turbulence intensity above rated wind speed. A new LQ co...

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2 Citations
2,342 Views
21 Pages

2 December 2022

The energy consumption management of small base stations (SBSs) in wireless caching networks with dense deployment of SBSs is an urgent problem to be solved. This paper jointly optimizes the SBS state control and user association problems in caching...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Communication Technologies)
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Disentangling Spatial, Temporal, and Space Weather Contributions to Spacecraft Anomaly States: A Case–Control Analysis of GOES-16/17

  • Zongliang Li,
  • Tianyou Yu,
  • Danhuai Guo,
  • Fenglin Ding and ,
  • Yizhuo Liu and
  • Xunchun Li
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Recurring spacecraft anomalies may reflect anomaly-prone system states shaped jointly by spacecraft geometry, recent anomaly history, and space weather forcing, rather than isolated responses to single external drivers. Distinguishing these contribut...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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3 Citations
3,498 Views
27 Pages

Inverse Optimal Control in State Derivative Space System with Applications in Motor Control

  • Feng-Chi Lee,
  • Yuan-Wei Tseng,
  • Rong-Ching Wu,
  • Wen-Chuan Chen and
  • Chin-Sheng Chen

23 March 2021

This paper mathematically explains how state derivative space (SDS) system form with state derivative related feedback can supplement standard state space system with state related feedback in control designs. Practically, inverse optimal control is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Control of Electrical Motor Drives)
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Multi-Layer Controlled Multi-Output Remote State Preparation of Single-Particle States

  • Nueraminaimu Maihemuti,
  • Yimamujiang Aisan,
  • Jiayin Peng and
  • Jiangang Tang

2 September 2026

We propose two multi-layer controlled multi-output remote state preparation (RSP) schemes for arbitrary single-qubit and single-qudit states. Twelve-particle entangled channels are constructed in two-dimensional and d-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information, Cryptography and Computation)
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2,641 Views
22 Pages

16 November 2023

In order to reduce the offshore wind power operation and maintenance vessel motion induced by severe sea states, a suitable stabilizer with the ship based on linear quadratic regulator strategy is proposed in this paper. First of all, the dynamics of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Offshore Renewable Energy)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,736 Views
11 Pages

31 July 2019

In this paper, we propose a Lyapunov-based state feedback control for state transfer based on the on-line quantum state estimation (OQSE). The OQSE is designed based on continuous weak measurements and compressed sensing. The controlled system is des...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Open Quantum Systems (OQS) for Quantum Technologies)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,953 Views
29 Pages

2 February 2026

This paper presents a control architecture based on Pixhawk4 to address the transition mode control issue of a tilt-rotor tricopter. While the classical PID controller designed for the rotor mode can handle most engineering applications under normal...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)
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28 Pages

Existing robotic control frameworks often rely on complex hierarchical state machines or middleware infrastructures, which may be unsuitable for resource-constrained embedded systems and difficult to map directly to low-level code. This work presents...

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33 Citations
7,298 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2018

Inductive-capacitive-inductive (LCL)-type filters are currently preferred as a replacement for L-type filters in distributed generation (DG) power systems, due to their superior harmonic attenuation capability. However, the third-order dynamics intro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Renewable Energy Systems)
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1 Citations
4,549 Views
13 Pages

Controlled Remote State Preparation via General Pure Three-Qubit State

  • Yuebo Zha,
  • Zhihua Zhang,
  • Yulin Huang and
  • Jianyu Yang

17 July 2015

The protocols for controlled remote state preparation of a single qubit and a general two-qubit state are presented in this paper. The general pure three-qubit states are chosen as shared quantum channel, which are not Local operations and classical...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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13 Citations
8,478 Views
22 Pages

28 May 2015

This paper describes a method for the control of transient exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems. Firstly, a state space model of the air system is developed by simplifying a mean value model. The state space model is linearized by using linearizat...

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1 Citations
1,742 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2021

Static corrective controllers are more efficient than dynamic ones since they consist of only logic elements, whereas their existence conditions are more restrictive. In this paper, we present a static corrective control scheme for fault diagnosis an...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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2 Citations
2,505 Views
25 Pages

Enhanced Model Predictive Control Using State Variable Feedback for Steady-State Error Cancellation

  • Marcos Andreu,
  • Jaime Rohten,
  • José Espinoza,
  • José Silva and ,
  • Esteban Pulido and
  • Lesyani Leon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 September 2024

The rapid dynamic responses of predictive control algorithms are widely acknowledged. However, achieving accurate steady-state reference tracking hinges not just on a precise mathematical model of the system but also on its parameters. This document...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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This paper addresses the tracking control problem for a class of uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems with input delay under communication constraints. The main difficulty is that the input delay degrades tracking performance, while full-state...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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327 Views
42 Pages

14 August 2026

This paper investigates practical finite-time adaptive fuzzy control for uncertain nonlinear systems subject to full-state constraints and unmeasured state variables. To deal with the inaccessibility of some state variables, an observer is constructe...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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31 Citations
5,807 Views
25 Pages

14 November 2017

In this paper, a backstepping-based formation control of quadrotors with the state transformation technique is proposed. First, the dynamics of a quadrotor is derived by using the Newton–Euler formulation. Next, a backstepping-based formation control...

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5 Citations
3,398 Views
17 Pages

7 May 2025

Fluid dynamics modeling was conducted for the supply unit of a Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (PAPR) consisting of a nonwoven fabric filter and a pump, as well as for the exhaust filter (nonwoven fabric). The supply flow rate Q1 was modeled as a fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Analog Front-End Circuits for Sensing Systems and High Sensitivity Measurements: 2nd Edition)
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5 Citations
2,199 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2025

Quadrotor UAVs require robust control methods to handle complex dynamics, model uncertainties, and external disturbances during trajectory tracking. This paper presents a trajectory tracking control method combining Sliding Mode Control with an Impro...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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9 Citations
2,454 Views
18 Pages

In this paper, a full state-constrained anti-disturbance dynamic surface control method is proposed for six-degree-of-freedom unmanned helicopter systems under full state constraints and disturbances. Firstly, due to the underactuated characteristics...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Motion Planning and Control in Aerospace Applications)
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21 Citations
5,482 Views
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Application of Statistical Process Control on Port State Control

  • Chien-Chung Yuan,
  • Wu-Hsun Chung,
  • Cunqiang Cai and
  • Shu-Te Sung

26 September 2020

Port state control (PSC) inspection is a critical measure in maritime safety, preventing substandard ships from entering ports. However, the current inspection system lacks an effective tool to monitor ship inspections and to identify which factors c...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,745 Views
23 Pages

5 December 2025

This paper proves a new lemma that characterizes controllability for linear Volterra control systems and shows that the usual controllability assumption for the variational linearized system near an optimal pair is superfluous. Building on this, it e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Differential and Integral Equations and Their Infinite Systems)
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5 Citations
3,295 Views
23 Pages

Optimal control of fractional order systems is a long established domain of fractional calculus. Nevertheless, it relies on equations expressed in terms of pseudo-state variables which raise fundamental questions. So in order remedy these problems, t...

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14 Citations
4,204 Views
14 Pages

Linear Quadratic Optimal Control with the Finite State for Suspension System

  • Qidi Fu,
  • Jianwei Wu,
  • Chuanyun Yu,
  • Tao Feng and ,
  • Ning Zhang and
  • Jianrun Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 January 2023

The control algorithm could greatly help the suspension system improve the comprehensive performance of the vehicle. Existing control methods need to obtain the intermediate states, which are difficult to obtain directly or accurately when estimated...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
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1 Citations
1,486 Views
24 Pages

17 September 2025

High-precision control of robotic manipulators plays a vital role in improving the efficiency and quality of industrial manufacturing. However, the inherent nonlinear and time-varying characteristics of robotic systems make high-accuracy control a ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Robots: Control and Sensing)
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4 Citations
2,645 Views
11 Pages

17 April 2024

In the recent literature, various aspects of the transfer of quantum states by spin chains have been thoroughly investigated. Part of the existing study is devoted to the problem of optimal control, with the goal of achieving a highly reliable inform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in 'Physics' Section 2024)
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16 September 2026

To address issues such as nonlinear strong coupling, time-varying parameters, and external wind disturbances in fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in complex flight environments, this study develops a composite attitude control meth...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
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2 Citations
1,132 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2025

Electro-hydraulic servo pump-controlled systems have advantages such as energy saving and high integration and are widely applied in aerospace, engineering machinery, and other fields. However, the input and state delays introduced by drive circuit,...

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1 Citations
530 Views
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In order to solve the engineering ships’ problem of difficult operation and low precision of cooperative control under complex sea states, this paper proposes a control strategy utilizing USVs to collaborate with an engineering mother ship for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies in Autonomous Ship Navigation)
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13 Citations
3,879 Views
24 Pages

26 November 2019

In the modern helicopter design and development process, constrained full-state control technology for turbo-shaft engine/rotor systems has always been a research hotspot in academia and industry. However, relevant references have pointed out that th...

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5 Citations
1,945 Views
26 Pages

Controlled Double-Direction Cyclic Quantum Communication of Arbitrary Two-Particle States

  • Nueraminaimu Maihemuti,
  • Zhanheng Chen,
  • Jiayin Peng,
  • Yimamujiang Aisan and
  • Jiangang Tang

11 March 2025

With the rapid development of quantum communication technologies, controlled double-direction cyclic (CDDC) quantum communication has become an important research direction. However, how to choose an appropriate quantum state as a channel to achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization)
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3 Citations
2,066 Views
12 Pages

19 July 2023

In this paper, the continuous nonlinear perturbed system is discussed. A sliding mode controller was designed using the reaching law technique. The main goal was to satisfy the state constraints in the form of linear combinations for the whole regula...

  • Feature Paper
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1 Citations
2,449 Views
10 Pages

Continuous-Time Perfect Control Algorithm—A State Feedback Approach

  • Marek Krok,
  • Wojciech P. Hunek and
  • Paweł Majewski

14 August 2021

In this paper, a new approach to the continuous-time perfect control algorithm is given. Focusing on the output derivative, it is shown that the discussed control law can effectively be implemented in terms of state-feedback scenarios. Moreover, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Automation Control Systems and Their Applications)
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8 Citations
2,386 Views
17 Pages

In the context of agricultural unmanned helicopters, the complex wind disturbances over crop fields and structural perturbations due to variations in pesticide container weights present substantial challenges to flight safety. To address these issues...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of UAVs in Precision Agriculture—2nd Edition)
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2 Citations
2,471 Views
24 Pages

Robust State-Feedback Control and Convergence Analysis for Uncertain LPV Systems Using State and Parameter Estimation

  • Esdras Battosti da Silva,
  • Ruhan Pontes Policarpo de Souza,
  • Cristiano Marcos Agulhari,
  • Glaucia Maria Bressan and
  • Wesley Angelino de Souza

22 June 2024

This study introduces the design of a state-feedback controller for Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) systems in scenarios where exogenous parameters are not directly accessible, and the state vector is to be estimated. Instead of considering a static f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning-Based Control and Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Models, Algorithms, and Applications)
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Control Subarea Division for Coordinated Signal Control: A Colored Random Walk and Path Entropy Approach to Traffic-State Propagation

  • Pengcheng Li,
  • Bin Li,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Wei Zhang and ,
  • Sixian Li and
  • Jun Hua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 June 2026

Control subarea division is essential for coordinated signal control, but methods based mainly on local correlation or static topology may not adequately capture traffic-state propagation under dynamic traffic loading. This study proposes a control s...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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1 Citations
3,290 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2023

As the application of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) becomes more and more widespread, its security is becoming a focus of attention. Currently, there has been much research on the security defense of the physical layer of the CPS. However, most of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and Actuator Attacks of Cyber-Physical Systems)
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4 Citations
2,703 Views
21 Pages

Mixed Cost Function and State Constrains Optimal Control Problems

  • Hugo Leiva,
  • Guido Tapia-Riera,
  • Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton and
  • Cosme Duque

In this paper, we analyze an optimal control problem with a mixed cost function, which combines a terminal cost at the final state and an integral term involving the state and control variables. The problem includes both state and control constraints...

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6 Citations
1,475 Views
23 Pages

28 April 2025

The trajectory tracking the control of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems faces considerable challenges due to strong inter-axis coupling and complex time-varying external disturbances. This paper proposes a novel fixed-time control scheme i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Modeling, Cooperative Control, and Decision-Making Method for the Collective Large-Scale Intelligent Systems)
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5 Citations
3,077 Views
32 Pages

Multifunctional Control Strategy for a Hybrid Solid-State Transformer Applied to Modern Distribution Electric Grids

  • Fádua Cozac,
  • Thiago Silva Amorim,
  • Imene Yahyaoui,
  • David Benitez Mendo and
  • Lucas Frizera Encarnação

19 October 2024

This paper presents the control and hardware design for a Hybrid Solid-State Transformer (HSST) applied to modern distribution systems. The HSST combines the advantages of conventional transformers, such as high efficiency and low cost, with those of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Section Collection Series: New Horizons and Recent Advances in Power Electronics)
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1 Citations
825 Views
23 Pages

21 May 2026

For nonlinear problems in robotic systems, such as parametric uncertainties and external disturbances, this paper proposes a control method based on bilateral dual-kernel fuzzy control. To address the issue that joint angular velocities cannot be dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Adaptive Control Theory and Applications for Nonlinear Systems)
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21 Citations
3,627 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2022

Owing to the complex dynamics of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their susceptibility to unknown interferences in an actual working environment, the flight control accuracy of UAVs is extremely high. Moreover, their anti-interference ab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Problem of Nonlinear Systems with Applications)

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