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13 Citations
3,559 Views
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Application of Predictive Feedforward Compensator to Microalgae Production in a Raceway Reactor: A Simulation Study

  • Andrzej Pawłowski,
  • José Luis Guzmán,
  • Manuel Berenguel,
  • Francisco G. Acíen and
  • Sebastián Dormido

4 January 2018

In this work, the evaluation of a predictive feedforward compensator is provided in order to highlight its most important advantages and drawbacks. The analyzed technique has been applied to microalgae production process in a raceway photobioreactor....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,090 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2018

The friction interference in the pneumatic rotary actuator is the primary factor affecting the position accuracy of a pneumatic rotary actuator servo system. The paper proposes an evolutionary algorithm-based friction-forward compensation control arc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,339 Views
18 Pages

Rotary Blood Pump (RBP) is a commonly used ventricular assist device. However, the constant speed operation of the blood pump leads to a reduction of blood flow pulsatility, which triggers a series of adverse reactions. In this paper, a pulsatile phy...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,614 Views
20 Pages

Measurable Disturbances Compensation: Analysis and Tuning of Feedforward Techniques for Dead-Time Processes

  • Andrzej Pawlowski,
  • Carlos Rodríguez,
  • José Luis Guzmán,
  • Manuel Berenguel and
  • Sebastián Dormido

12 April 2016

In this paper, measurable disturbance compensation techniques are analyzed, focusing the problem on the input-output and disturbance-output time delays. The feedforward compensation method is evaluated for the common structures that appear between th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,616 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2018

A single piezoelectric patch can be used as both a sensor and an actuator by means of the self-sensing piezoelectric actuator, and the function of self-sensing shows several advantages in many application fields. However, some problems exist in pract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,416 Views
12 Pages

23 May 2019

In the open channel control algorithm, good feed-forward controllers will reduce the transition time of the canal and improve performance. Feedforward control algorithms based on active storage compensation are greatly affected by delay time. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,302 Views
20 Pages

Soft manipulators have desirable environmental compatibility because of their pliability. However, this pliability also brings challenges to modeling and control when considering contact or collision with the environment. In previous work, we establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,469 Views
25 Pages

A New Motion Tracking Controller with Feedforward Compensation for Robot Manipulators Based on Sectorial Fuzzy Control and Adaptive Neural Networks

  • Andres Pizarro-Lerma,
  • Victor Santibañez,
  • Ramon Garcia-Hernandez,
  • Jorge Villalobos-Chin and
  • Javier Moreno-Valenzuela

16 March 2025

A novel trajectory tracking control approach for robot manipulators that uses adaptive neural network feedforward compensation plus a sectorial fuzzy controller is presented. We conduct simulation and real-time experiments comparing it with two previ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,353 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2025

This paper proposes a control method for the voltage stability of DC microgrid buses based on a disturbance estimation feedforward compensation strategy, aiming to enhance the dynamic response characteristics of the system. A nonlinear disturbance ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,059 Views
18 Pages

Railway static power conditioners (RPC) usually improve the power quality of traction power supply systems only according to the active power of the load, which leads to inaccurate compensation. There are two factors that restrict the performance of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,060 Views
16 Pages

Virtual Admittance Feedforward Compensation and Phase Correction for Average-Current-Mode-Controlled Totem-Pole PFC Converters

  • Hongkai He,
  • Desheng Zhang,
  • Aosong Zhou,
  • Fanwu Zhang,
  • Xuecheng Zou,
  • Jun Yuan and
  • Meng Wei

22 August 2023

This paper explores a current distortion problem in totem-pole bridgeless power factor correction (PFC) converters with average current mode (ACM) control. With in-depth modeling for the current and voltage loops, it was found that the current distor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,122 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2025

Cable-driven actuators (CDAs) are extensively used in the rehabilitation field because of advantages such as low moment of inertia, fast movement response, and intrinsic flexibility. Accurate control of cable force is essential for achieving precise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,767 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

Considering the complexity and difficulty of obtaining certain parameters in the electro-hydraulic proportional control system, a precise transfer function of the system was derived through parameter identification using experimental data obtained fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,685 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2018

In a DC distribution system configured by AC/DC power conversion system (PCS), the voltage control performance of the AC/DC PCS determines the stability and reliability of the DC distribution grid. The DC voltage of grid is maintained by capacitor, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,138 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2022

The fast tool servo (FTS) control strategy is the control core of high-speed noncircular turning. This method should ensure high-speed and precision positioning and have the corresponding anti-interference ability in the micro-stroke motion with dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,011 Views
23 Pages

27 August 2025

In high-precision fields such as advanced manufacturing, semiconductor processing, aerospace assembly, and precision machining, motion control systems often face challenges such as large tracking errors and low control efficiency due to complex dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,051 Views
24 Pages

12 December 2012

The magnetically suspended Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) has the advantages of long-life, micro-vibration and being non-lubricating, and is the ideal actuator for agile maneuver satellite attitude control. However, the stability of the rotor in magn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,658 Views
31 Pages

30 December 2023

This paper presents a low-voltage CMOS four-stage amplifier operating in the subthreshold region. The first design technique includes the cross-feedforward positive feedback frequency compensation (CFPFC) for obtaining better bandwidth efficiency in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,695 Views
23 Pages

23 August 2021

The shunt active power filter (SAPF) is a widely used tool for compensation of disturbances in three-phase electric power systems. A high number of control methods have been successfully developed, including strategies based on artificial neural netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,227 Views
17 Pages

4 January 2023

A feedforward strap-down control with a compensator base on the linear extended state observer (LESO) is proposed for a miniaturized camera stabilized platform, which reduces the influence of the dead zone in speed regulation and uncertainties in par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,709 Views
29 Pages

The dynamic error is the dominant factor affecting multi-axis CNC machining accuracy. Predicting and compensating for dynamic errors is vital in high-speed machining. This paper proposes a novel prediction-model-based approach to predict and compensa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,220 Views
18 Pages

Current Harmonic Suppression Algorithm for Asymmetric Dual Three-Phase PMSM

  • Zhihong Wu,
  • Weisong Gu,
  • Ke Lu,
  • Yuan Zhu and
  • Jianbin Guan

2 February 2020

Based on the vector space decomposition (VSD) transformation, the currents of an asymmetric dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (ADT-PMSM) with isolated neutral points are decoupled into the torque, producing α-ß component...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,460 Views
14 Pages

A Compound Control Based on the Piezo-Actuated Stage with Bouc–Wen Model

  • Jiwen Fang,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Chong Li,
  • Wei Zhong and
  • Zhili Long

7 December 2019

The piezoelectric actuator (PA) is one of the most commonly used actuators in a micro-positioning stage. But its hysteresis non-linearity can cause error in the piezo-actuated stage. A modified Bouc–Wen model is presented in this paper to descr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,599 Views
19 Pages

11 April 2019

Finite control set-model predictive torque control (FCS-MPTC) depends on the system parameters and the weight coefficients setting. At the same time, since the actual load disturbance is unavoidable, the model parameters are not matched, and there is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,023 Views
12 Pages

A Compensated Peak Current Mode Control PWM for Primary-Side Controlled Flyback Converters

  • Chia-Hsuan Wu,
  • Guan-Rong Huang,
  • Cheng-Chih Chou,
  • Ching-Ming Lai and
  • Liang-Rui Chen

9 November 2021

In this paper, a feedback compensator (FBC) and a Feedforward compensator (FFC) are proposed to construct a novel compensated peak current mode control pulse width modulation (CPC-PWM) for primary-side controlled flyback converters. Using the propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,278 Views
40 Pages

Sectorial Fuzzy Controller Plus Feedforward for the Trajectory Tracking of Robotic Arms in Joint Space

  • Andres Pizarro-Lerma,
  • Victor Santibañez,
  • Ramon Garcia-Hernandez and
  • Jorge Villalobos-Chin

15 March 2021

In this paper, we propose a Sectorial Fuzzy Controller (SFC) with a feedforward compensation of the robot dynamics in joint space, evaluated at the desired angular positions, velocities, and accelerations, applied to the trajectory tracking of all re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,924 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2023

High-precision industrial manipulators are essential components in advanced manufacturing. Model-based feedforward is the key to realizing the high-precision control of industrial robot manipulators. However, traditional feedforward control approache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,126 Views
18 Pages

16 February 2021

Leg capacitor energy balancing control is one of the crucial issues for stable operation of a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converter. Because this topology inherently consists of numerous submodule cells with DC capacitors, the cell voltages and leg capac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,708 Views
21 Pages

This paper presents a new dilated linear matrix inequality (LMI) representation to design a state feedback controller and a dynamic feedforward disturbance compensator for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. The improved LMIs are convex and finit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,010 Views
18 Pages

2 March 2020

In microgrids, paralleled converters can increase the system capacity and conversion efficiency but also generate zero-sequence circulating current, which will distort the AC-side current and increase power losses. Studies have shown that, for two pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,180 Views
13 Pages

19 January 2020

This paper deals with the robust control method for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) speed-regulation system based on active disturbance compensation. Different from the classical PMSM disturbance compensation scheme, a novel disturbance fee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,204 Views
36 Pages

2 September 2025

In this paper, we propose systematic controller design guidelines to ensure both individual vehicle stability and string stability in cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC)-based platoon systems, assuming a homogeneous platoon where all vehicles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,034 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2021

This paper proposes a compensation method for interpolation error of the maximum power control of a PMSM control system that generates current commands through a look-up table. A torque control system using a look-up table created through experiments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,576 Views
16 Pages

This paper is concerned with control-based damping of friction-induced self-excited oscillations that appear in electromechanical systems with an elastic shaft. This approach does not demand additional oscillations measurements or an observer design....

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,063 Views
26 Pages

6 April 2016

Addressing the simulating issue of the helicopter-manipulating booster aerodynamic load with high-frequency dynamic load superimposed on a large static load, this paper studies the design of the robust controller for the electro-hydraulic loading sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
742 Views
17 Pages

Improved Active Disturbance Rejection Speed Tracking Control for High-Speed Trains Based on SBWO Algorithm

  • Chuanfang Xu,
  • Chengyu Zhang,
  • Mingxia Xu,
  • Jiaqing Chen,
  • Longda Wang and
  • Zhaoyu Han

8 September 2025

To address the problems of random noise interference, inadequate disturbance estimation and compensation, and the difficulty in controller parameter tuning in speed tracking control of high-speed trains, an improved Active Disturbance Rejection Contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,972 Views
14 Pages

26 July 2023

The output active power of a grid-connected inverter controlled by a traditional virtual synchronous generator (VSG) has the problems of oscillation and steady-state errors. A VSG control strategy based on improved damping and angular frequency devia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
621 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2025

To address the issues of excessive current ripple and poor dynamic response in conventional angle position control (APC) for high-speed switched reluctance generator (SRG), this paper proposes an online parameter identification-based model-free predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,398 Views
17 Pages

A Generalized Fault Tolerant Control Based on Back EMF Feedforward Compensation: Derivation and Application on Induction Motors Drives

  • Mahdi Tousizadeh,
  • Amirmehdi Yazdani,
  • Hang Seng Che,
  • Hai Wang,
  • Amin Mahmoudi and
  • Nasrudin Abd Rahim

21 December 2022

In this paper, a fault-tolerant three-phase induction drive based on field-oriented control is studied, and an analytical approach is proposed to elucidate the limitations of FOC in flux-torque regulation from the controller perspective. With an open...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,366 Views
38 Pages

A New Method for Controlling Fractional Linear Systems

  • Subramanian V. Shastri,
  • Kumpati S. Narendra and
  • Lihao Zheng

The study of fractional linear time-invariant (LTI) systems has been an area of active research over the past thirty years. Results indicate that such systems are becoming important in the representation of certain types of dynamical behavior in biol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,844 Views
32 Pages

Optimal Design and Hybrid Control for the Electro-Hydraulic Dual-Shaking Table System

  • Lianpeng Zhang,
  • Dacheng Cong,
  • Zhidong Yang,
  • Yanyan Zhang and
  • Junwei Han

5 August 2016

This paper is to develop an optimal electro-hydraulic dual-shaking table system with high waveform replication precision. The parameters of hydraulic cylinders, servo valves, hydraulic supply power and gravity balance system are designed and optimize...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,734 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2023

The fast piezo-driven scanner (FPDS) compensates for vibrations in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image stabilization system. However, the hysteresis nonlinearity reduces the positioning accuracy of the FPDS. To address this challenge, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,724 Views
21 Pages

Based on the design concept of dynamic and static isolation, disturbance-free payload (DFP) satellites can isolate the effects of interference on sensitive payloads, and can realize the high-precision control of the payload better than a traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,409 Views
22 Pages

12 October 2024

This paper explores the cooperative control of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in maritime rescue and coastal surveillance. The USV-UAV system faces challenges of disturbances and substantial inertia-induced oversh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,084 Views
24 Pages

This study introduces a decentralized control framework designed to improve energy efficiency in vehicle platooning by optimizing inter-vehicle gaps to minimize aerodynamic drag, a significant factor in energy consumption. The proposed framework inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
24 Pages

17 December 2025

Inter-turn short-circuit (ITSC) faults in motor drives can induce substantial circulating currents and localized thermal stress, ultimately degrading winding insulation and compromising torque stability. To enhance the operational reliability of open...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,648 Views
28 Pages

Analysis of Grid-Connected Damping Characteristics of Virtual Synchronous Generator and Improvement Strategies

  • Xudong Cao,
  • Ruogu Zhang,
  • Jun Li,
  • Li Ji,
  • Xueliang Wei,
  • Jile Geng and
  • Bowen Li

Focused on the contradiction between the steady-state error of active power and the dynamic oscillation caused by the virtual damping characteristics of the virtual synchronous generator (VSG) under disturbances during grid-connected operation, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
649 Views
21 Pages

18 November 2025

The dynamic performance of parallel robots directly determines the machining accuracy in large optical mirror processing (LOMP). However, limitations in traditional dynamic modeling methods hinder their application in real-time control, constraining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,825 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2019

The DC–DC converter for fuel cell vehicles requires high gain and wide voltage input range to boost the voltage of the fuel cell. However, with the traditional boost converter, it is difficult to meet the requirements of the fuel cell vehicle p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,009 Views
20 Pages

The motion process of legged robots contains not only rigid-body motion but also flexible motion with elastic deformation of the legs, especially for heavy loads. Hence, the characteristics of the flexible components and their interactions with the r...

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