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13 March 2019

The problem of anti-saturation control for a class of time-delay systems with actuator saturation is considered in this paper. By introducing appropriate variable substitution, a new delay time-delay systems model with actuator saturation systems is...

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12 Citations
3,813 Views
19 Pages

As a very serious problem for control systems, actuator saturation often leads to an unstable system. The maneuvering flight of quadrotors may lead to actuator saturation, which commonly affects the flight quality, including trajectory-tracking accur...

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4 Citations
2,844 Views
27 Pages

18 April 2022

When primary resonance occurs, even a small external disturbance can abruptly excite large amplitude vibration and deteriorate the working performance of a flexible manipulator. Most active control methods are effective for non-resonant vibration but...

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3 Citations
2,249 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2024

This paper introduces a nonlinear dynamic inversion control algorithm designed to address unknown disturbances and actuator saturation issues in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attitude control. The algorithm is based on a combination of finite-time di...

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5 Citations
1,996 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2024

This paper primarily focuses on the chaos synchronisation analysis of neural networks (NNs) under a hybrid controller. Firstly, we design a suitable hybrid controller with saturated impulse control, combined with time-dependent intermittent control....

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1,663 Views
15 Pages

5 January 2024

This paper addresses a mode-dependent state-feedback H control for stochastic descriptor hybrid systems, considering both the absence and presence of actuator saturation. Firstly, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the stochastic admi...

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3 Citations
1,994 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2022

In this work, a controller is developed for a continuous bioreactor with an unknown reaction rate term, subject to input saturation. The substrate concentration and the dilution rate are chosen as output and input, respectively. The controller formul...

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6 Citations
2,354 Views
21 Pages

29 December 2020

In this work, substrate control of a biological process with unknown varying control gain, input saturation, and uncertain reaction rate is addressed. A novel adaptive controller is proposed, which tackles the combined effect of input saturation and...

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2 Citations
1,502 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2024

This paper investigates the fixed-time tracking control problem for agile missiles with multiple heterogeneous actuators in the presence of saturation constraints and external disturbances. To reduce the turning radius and promote maneuvering envelop...

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4 Citations
1,801 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2023

In this paper, an observer-based adaptive control method is investigated for the horizontal trajectory tracking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) with input saturation and system disturbances. Firstly, the desired surge speed and trajectory ang...

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11 Citations
2,751 Views
22 Pages

This paper addressed the formation control problem of surface unmanned vessels with model uncertainty, parameter perturbation, and unknown environmental disturbances. A formation control method based on the control force saturation constraint and the...

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4 Citations
1,771 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2023

This paper tackles the saturation and fault-tolerant attitude tracking problem without unwinding for rigid spacecraft with external disturbances and partial loss of actuator effectiveness faults. A hybrid saturation and fault-tolerant attitude contro...

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2 Citations
1,968 Views
19 Pages

10 February 2023

The synchronization error of a dual-motor system will seriously affect the motion profile accuracy. To solve this problem, an adaptive fractional-order anti-saturation synchronous control method based on fractional-order frequency-domain control theo...

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1 Citations
1,459 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Iterative Learning Tracking Control for Nonlinear Teleoperators with Input Saturation

  • Bochun Wu,
  • Xinhao Chen,
  • Jinshan Huang,
  • Jiawen Wen,
  • Jiakun Liu,
  • Fujie Wang and
  • Jianing Zhang

31 July 2024

Addressing input saturation, external disturbances, and uncertain system parameters, this paper investigates the position tracking control problem for bilateral teleoperation systems with a time delay communication channel. Based on a composite energ...

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4 Citations
1,730 Views
21 Pages

8 December 2022

The attitude synchronization tracking problem for spacecraft formation flying is investigated in this paper based on sliding-mode control and a Chebyshev neural network (ChNN). A distributed attitude cooperative controller is designed for a group of...

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774 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2025

This paper proposes an adaptive control framework for constrained nonlinear systems subject to sensor and actuator deception attacks, in the presence of actuator saturation. To enforce state constraints under sensor attacks, a modified coordinate tra...

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1 Citations
1,022 Views
23 Pages

In this work, a predefined-time formation output constraint control method is proposed for underactuated AUVs with input saturation. First, a coordinate transformation method is utilized to convert the underactuated AUV system into a fully actuated s...

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2 Citations
2,460 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2022

In this paper, an adaptive incremental neural network (INN) fixed-time tracking control scheme based on composite learning is investigated for robot systems under input saturation. Firstly, by integrating the composite learning method into the INN to...

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371 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2025

This paper addresses the observer-based controller design for adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems using a linear matrix inequality (LMI) framework, considering both input saturation and disturbance attenuation performance. To formulate the controll...

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16 Citations
3,834 Views
17 Pages

28 July 2023

The control performance of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex environments can be affected by external disturbances and other factors. In this paper, an adaptive neural network backstepping controller based on the barrier Lyapunov f...

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45 Citations
5,749 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2019

Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles have become increasingly popular in several applications, and the improvement of their control performance has been documented in several studies. Nevertheless, the design of a high-performance tracking controller f...

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11 Citations
2,678 Views
16 Pages

3 October 2019

This paper investigates the fault-tolerant tracking control problem of high-speed trains (HSTs) subject to unknown model parameters with unavailable uncertainties, unmeasurable additional disturbance, and unpredictable actuator faults constrained by...

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16 Citations
2,730 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2021

This paper considers the finite-time dynamic tracking control for parallel robots with uncertainties and input saturation via a finite-time nonsingular terminal sliding mode control scheme. A disturbance observer is designed to estimate the lumped di...

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15 Pages

11 March 2026

Fractional-order models are widely recognized for their ability to capture memory and hereditary effects in biological and physiological systems. In this paper, we develop and analyze a Caputo fractional-order dynamical model for the regulation of bl...

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8 Citations
5,182 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Saturation on Field Oriented Control of the New Designed Reluctance Synchronous Motor

  • Pavol Rafajdus,
  • Valeria Hrabovcova,
  • Pavel Lehocky,
  • Pavol Makys and
  • Filip Holub

21 November 2018

In this paper the effect of saturation on torque production of a reluctance synchronous motor (RSM), which was originally built as an induction motor (IM), is investigated. The rotor was replaced with new one, designed as synchronous reluctance cagel...

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3 Citations
2,757 Views
19 Pages

3 September 2020

This paper presents a gain scheduling output feedback control method to reduce driver workload and improve driving performance by considering input saturation. The driver–vehicle system model is developed by considering tire cornering stiffness...

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245 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2026

This paper proposes an integrated finite-time relative-threshold event-triggered control (FTRTETC) framework for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) formations under input saturation and unknown time-varying external disturbances. Firstly, a scheme of USV...

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2 Citations
732 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2025

This paper proposes a distributed data-driven adaptive iterative learning control (DAILC) method to address the challenges of modeling and voltage regulation in isolated AC microgrids subject to disturbances and sensor saturation. Firstly, by utilizi...

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5 Citations
2,119 Views
17 Pages

Leader-Following Consensus of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Asymmetric Saturation Impulsive Control

  • Qiao Yuan,
  • Guorong Chen,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Yu Yuan,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Xiaonan Wang and
  • Jingcheng Liu

1 February 2024

Impulsive control is an effective approach for coordinating multi-agent systems in practical environments due to its high robustness and low cost. However, impulsive control exhibits characteristics such as high amplitude and rapid variation, potenti...

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10 Citations
2,892 Views
13 Pages

18 November 2022

An adaptive neural control for uncertain 2DOF helicopter systems with input saturation and time-varying output constraints is provided. A radial basis function neural network is used to estimate the uncertainty terms present in the system. The satura...

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1,921 Views
24 Pages

8 June 2025

This paper addresses the challenges of cooperative formation control and prescribed-time tracking for networked quadrotor UAVs under speed and input saturation constraints. A hierarchical control framework including position formation layer and attit...

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3 Citations
1,313 Views
14 Pages

7 May 2024

This research explores the synchronization issue of leader–follower systems with multiple nonlinear agents, which operate under input saturation constraints. Each follower operates under a spectrum of unknown dynamic nonlinear systems with non-...

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7 Citations
2,655 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2023

Considering the problem of tracking control for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) with input saturation, parameter uncertainties and external disturbances, a command filtered backstepping-based fixed-time adaptive control scheme was develope...

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4 Citations
3,855 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2017

Abstract: The nonlinearity and uncertain variation of machine parameters are always caused by cross coupling and magnetic saturation effects, which are easily neglected in the conventional control strategy. In this paper, a current trajectory control...

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6 Citations
4,297 Views
12 Pages

21 March 2022

The horizontal translational oscillator with a rotational actuator (TORA) is a typical underactuated mechanical system, whose control problem is still open and theoretically challenging. At present, the existing control methods are structurally compl...

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21 Citations
3,828 Views
17 Pages

26 October 2024

This paper addresses the challenging issue of trajectory tracking for uncertain quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly under the constraints of input saturation and external disturbances. It introduces adaptive laws for managing unce...

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6 Citations
2,346 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, the sliding mode technique is used to study the quantized fault-tolerant control of unmanned marine vehicles with thruster saturation. Firstly, the sliding mode surface is constructed according to the full rank decomposition of input m...

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7 Citations
2,543 Views
26 Pages

A Robust Model Predictive Control for a Photovoltaic Pumping System Subject to Actuator Saturation Nonlinearity

  • Omar Hazil,
  • Fouad Allouani,
  • Sofiane Bououden,
  • Mohammed Chadli,
  • Mohamed Chemachema,
  • Ilyes Boulkaibet and
  • Bilel Neji

2 March 2023

In this paper, a new robust model predictive control (RMPC) for uncertain nonlinear systems subject to actuator saturation is designed to regulate the terminal voltage of a photovoltaic generator (PVG) that feeds a DC motor-pump via a buck DC–D...

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7 Citations
2,124 Views
25 Pages

17 January 2025

This paper investigates the fixed-time tracking control problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) considering the disturbance, input saturation, and actuator failure. According to the hierarchical control principle, the UAV dynamics are decomposed...

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328 Views
23 Pages

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking problem for a six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) underwater manipulator subject to complex disturbances and input saturation. It proposes a fixed-time preset performance sliding mode control method considering...

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11 Citations
2,049 Views
25 Pages

31 December 2024

Manipulator systems are increasingly deployed across various industries to perform complex, repetitive, and hazardous tasks, necessitating high-precision control for optimal performance. However, the design of effective control algorithms is challeng...

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2 Citations
2,376 Views
22 Pages

24 April 2023

The synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) has significant nonlinear characteristics due to the problems of magnetic saturation and cross-coupling and the poor adaptability of the general controller to parameter changes seriously affects the control pe...

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5 Citations
2,053 Views
22 Pages

25 May 2023

The trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (QUAV) subject to external disturbances, inertia uncertainties, actuator faults, and input saturation is addressed in this paper. In contrast with previous works, input sa...

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5 Citations
2,356 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2024

This work studies the dynamic positioning (DP) control issue of unmanned surface vessels subjected to thruster saturation, error constraints, and lumped disturbances composed of time-varying marine environmental disturbances and model parameter uncer...

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1 Citations
1,391 Views
25 Pages

27 November 2024

Hybrid aerial underwater vehicles (HAUVs) have shown broad development prospects for rapid emergency response and marine scientific observation at the sea–air interface in recent decades. The trans-media motion control problem of HAUV is a spec...

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7 Citations
2,631 Views
21 Pages

24 May 2022

This study investigated the adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) for a flexible variable structure spacecraft in the presence of external disturbance, multiple actuator faults, and saturation. The attitude system model of a variable structure spacec...

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9 Citations
2,851 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2022

This paper proposes a method for robust tracking control synthesis of dual-active-bridge (DAB) DC–DC converters with parameter uncertainties and input saturation. In the proposed method, the nonlinear function of the phase shift ratio is expres...

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1 Citations
1,469 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2023

This brief discusses the use of quantized control with actuator saturation to achieve the local synchronization of master–slave fractional-order neural networks (FONNs). A refined sector condition (RSC) is proposed that addresses the issue of t...

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15 Citations
4,251 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2020

In this paper, an adaptive neural fault-tolerant tracking control scheme is presented for the yaw control of an unmanned-aerial-vehicle helicopter. The scheme incorporates a non-affine nonlinear system that manages actuator faults, input saturation,...

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9 Citations
2,893 Views
31 Pages

30 August 2023

This paper investigates the distance-based formation and cooperative path-following control problems for multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this study, we design the distance-based formation control structure to achieve the virtu...

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