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6 September 2019

In this paper, optimality conditions are studied for a new class of PDE and PDI-constrained scalar variational control problems governed by path-independent curvilinear integral functionals. More precisely, we formulate and prove a minimal criterion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,622 Views
13 Pages

18 September 2022

This paper proposes a new fractional-order model reference adaptive control (FOMRAC) framework for a fractional-order multivariable system with parameter uncertainty. The designed FOMRAC scheme depends on a fractional-order nonlinear scalar update la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus and Mathematical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,561 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2020

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) failures are currently widely discussed in the literature, but the impact of these failures on the operation of control systems and the ability to detect selected failures despite the compensating effect of c...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
31 Pages

11 September 2026

For continuous boundary observation at a prescribed scalar level in unknown marine scalar fields, this paper proposes an isoline tracking method for an autonomous underwater helicopter (AUH) using only noisy local measurements. The method establishes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics and Intelligent Control)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,151 Views
29 Pages

27 September 2025

Vibration monitoring plays a crucial role in assessing the condition and operational safety of electric drive systems. In many industrial applications, scalar control is widely used due to its simplicity and reliability, yet its influence on vibratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Aspects of the Design and Operation of Electric Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,254 Views
15 Pages

New Adaptive High Starting Torque Scalar Control Scheme for Induction Motors Based on Passivity

  • Juan Carlos Travieso-Torres,
  • Miriam Vilaragut-Llanes,
  • Ángel Costa-Montiel,
  • Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud and ,
  • Norelys Aguila-Camacho,
  • Camilo Contreras-Jara and
  • Alejandro Álvarez-Gracia
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 March 2020

A novel adaptive high starting torque (HST) scalar control scheme (SCS) for induction motors (IM) is proposed in this paper. It uses a new adaptive-passivity-based controller (APBC) proposed herein for a class of nonlinear systems, with linear explic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Strategies for Power Conversion Systems)
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  • Open Access
415 Views
35 Pages

24 September 2026

Delayed feedback converts local stabilization of a scalar map with delay τ into a degree-(τ+1) Schur-stability problem. Using the classical Kuruklis criterion as the analytical starting point, we derive exact Schur-stability regions in the mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,160 Views
25 Pages

Comparison of Induction Machine Drive Control Schemes on the Distribution of Power Losses in a Three-Level NPC Converter

  • Carlos A. Reusser,
  • Matías Parra,
  • Gerardo Mino-Aguilar and
  • Victor R. Gonzalez-Diaz

12 March 2025

Medium- and high-power drive applications have grown since the past decade as the most common solution for high demanding industrial processes. Multilevel converters, in particular the three-level neutral point clamped (3L-NPC) topology driving mediu...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,456 Views
25 Pages

8 February 2025

This work aims to improve the reliability of dynamic systems by eliminating the effect of random control variables. At first, the reliability-based dynamic optimization problem (RB-DOP) is introduced and defined to account for dynamic systems with un...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,584 Views
11 Pages

A Novel MRAC Scheme for Output Tracking

  • Tingting Tian,
  • Xiaorong Hou and
  • Fang Yan

7 July 2022

This paper puts forward a novel output feedback model reference adaptive control (MRAC) scheme for solving an adaptive output tracking problem. The proposed control scheme only needs a scalar function to be updated online, which decreases the system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Theory with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,113 Views
19 Pages

Time-Optimal Control Problem of Two Non-Synchronous Oscillators

  • Leonid Berlin,
  • Andrey Galyaev and
  • Pavel Lysenko

29 September 2022

The time-optimal control problem for a system consisting of two non-synchronous oscillators is considered. Each oscillator is controlled with a shared limited scalar control. The objective of the control is to accelerate the oscillatory system to a g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Oscillatory Phenomena)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
669 Views
31 Pages

13 August 2026

Induction motors remain the workhorse of modern industry thanks to their robustness, cost effectiveness and high efficiency, but the growing demands of electrified transport, high-performance automation and Industry 4.0 impose increasingly stringent...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
412 Views
11 Pages

Improving Energy Efficiency in Metalworking Machine Tools: Vector Control of Electric Drives Using a Frequency Converter and System Modeling

  • Sardorjon Samiev,
  • Shokhabbos Doliev,
  • Farrukh Juraev,
  • Sunnatjon Farxodov and
  • Ramziddin Toshtemirov

10 September 2026

Today, the mechanical processing and treatment of metals are of great importance in the development of industrial sectors. Therefore, in the process of mechanical metalworking, a need arises to create new modern equipment or improve existing devices....

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Inventions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,574 Views
22 Pages

Wildfires Vegetation Recovery through Satellite Remote Sensing and Functional Data Analysis

  • Feliu Serra-Burriel,
  • Pedro Delicado and
  • Fernando M. Cucchietti

7 June 2021

In recent years, wildfires have caused havoc across the world, which are especially aggravated in certain regions due to climate change. Remote sensing has become a powerful tool for monitoring fires, as well as for measuring their effects on vegetat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methodological and Applied Contributions on Stochastic Modelling and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,625 Views
13 Pages

This article analyses the potential use of a Line-Start Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor (LSPMSM) in a drive system with a frequency converter that enables stable operation without internal feedback from the rotor position. In Fault-Tolerant Contro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Renewable Energy System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,554 Views
39 Pages

Evaluation of Adaptive Loop-Bandwidth Tracking Techniques in GNSS Receivers

  • Iñigo Cortés,
  • Johannes Rossouw van der Merwe,
  • Jari Nurmi,
  • Alexander Rügamer and
  • Wolfgang Felber

12 January 2021

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers use tracking loops to lock onto GNSS signals. Fixed loop settings limit the tracking performance against noise, receiver dynamics, and the current scenario. Adaptive tracking loops adjust these sett...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 10th International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2020 (ICL-GNSS 2020))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,383 Views
16 Pages

14 May 2022

Recently, a novel high-starting torque scalar control scheme (HST-SCS) for induction motor(s) (IM) emerged. It expands the scalar control application field beyond centrifugal pumps, blowers, and fans, moving, for instance, some conveyor belts with no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electrical Machine Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,502 Views
22 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Design of Scalar LQG Control

  • Edoardo Ferrari,
  • Yue Tian,
  • Chenglong Sun,
  • Zuxing Li and
  • Chao Wang

22 June 2022

This paper studies the agent identity privacy problem in the scalar linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control system. The agent identity is a binary hypothesis: Agent A or Agent B. An eavesdropper is assumed to make a hypothesis testing the agent ident...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adversarial Intelligence: Secrecy, Privacy, and Robustness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
648 Views
33 Pages

Machine-learned molecular force fields require many-body geometry, but obtaining it through Clebsch–Gordan tensor products is computationally expensive. For a strong no-Clebsch–Gordan backbone such as GotenNet, we ask whether the limitati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 30th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,297 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
5 Citations
2,808 Views
23 Pages

Discrete-time architectures offer a distinct advantage over their continuous counterparts, as they can be seamlessly implemented on embedded hardware without the necessity for discretization processes. Yet, because of the difficulty of ensuring Lyapu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Networked Robotics and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,088 Views
25 Pages

29 May 2024

The direct torque control (DTC) strategy was proposed more than 25 years ago. It is one of the most successful and reliable techniques for AC motors. This paper presents the application of DTC using a four-switch inverter, as one of the non-conventio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,255 Views
16 Pages

The developed torque with minimum oscillations is one of the difficulties faced when designing drive systems. High ripple torque contents result in fluctuations and acoustic noise that impact the life of a drive system. A multiphase machine can offer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,209 Views
25 Pages

18 November 2015

This paper presents a novel lightning search algorithm (LSA) using quantum mechanics theories to generate a quantum-inspired LSA (QLSA). The QLSA improves the searching of each step leader to obtain the best position for a projectile. To evaluate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,506 Views
24 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Tracking Techniques with Direct-State Kalman Filter

  • Iñigo Cortés,
  • Johannes Rossouw van der Merwe,
  • Elena Simona Lohan,
  • Jari Nurmi and
  • Wolfgang Felber

6 January 2022

This paper evaluates the performance of robust adaptive tracking techniques with the direct-state Kalman filter (DSKF) used in modern digital global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. Under the assumption of a well-known Gaussian distribut...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
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  • Open Access
1,078 Views
36 Pages

11 May 2026

We propose a microphysical completion for the scalar sector of dilatonic gravity by identifying the dilaton with the coarse-grained stiffness mode of a constrained complex tension field defined on a discrete relational network. Under a controlled ord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modified Gravity: From Black Hole Entropy to Modern Cosmology)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,505 Views
9 Pages

23 June 2021

In this paper, by using scalar multiple integral cost functionals and the notion of convexity associated with a multiple integral functional driven by an uncertain multi-time controlled second-order Lagrangian, we develop a new mathematical framework...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,046 Views
25 Pages

6 February 2024

This paper presents a voltage control system for multiphase squirrel-cage induction generators operating at a high variability of speed and variable load. Field-oriented vector control was used with a change in the sequence of the stator phase curren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electrical Machines Design and Control)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
319 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2026

This paper presents a comparative analysis of scalar V/F and field-oriented control (FOC) control strategies for induction motor drives, including classical and AI-enhanced implementations. AI-based optimization is used to improve dynamic performance...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The International Conference on Electronics, Engineering Physics and Earth Science (EEPES2026))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
425 Views
37 Pages

This paper proposes a low-complexity residual-corrected loss-minimization current-reference generation method for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. Existing loss-minimization control (LMC) methods often rely on lookup tables, numerica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: Design, Control, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,791 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2023

Traditionally, Fourier spectra have been employed to gain a deeper understanding of turbulence flow structures. The investigation of isotropic forced turbulence with passive scalars offers a straightforward means to examine the disparities between ve...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Turbulence)
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  • Open Access
430 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2026

Biorthogonal quantum geometry is often read through scalar tensor components. In non-Hermitian bands, however, the biorthogonal contraction can lose the ordering of the left-right interband matrix elements from which a scalar component is formed. We...

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  • Open Access
369 Views
13 Pages

25 June 2026

Severity factors are widely used to compress torrefaction temperature–time history into a single scalar descriptor. However, whether such scalar representations are structurally sufficient to describe realised conversion across heterogeneous bi...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental and Green Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
23 Pages

Learning When to Feel: Scalar-Gated Fusion and Affective Flow Representations

  • Hiram Calvo,
  • Mayte H. Laureano,
  • Pablo Gervás and
  • Gonzalo Méndez

14 July 2026

In this paper we study how external affective information should be integrated into a compact transformer-based text classifier. Rather than treating affective features as signals to be appended directly to the representation, we examine whether thei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Algorithms in Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,219 Views
22 Pages

16 February 2023

Process-data-supported process monitoring in injection molding plays an important role in compensating for disturbances in the process. Until now, scalar process data from machine controls have been used to predict part quality. In this paper, we inv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Injection Molding of Polymers)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,658 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Control Methods for the Traction Drive of an Alternating Current Electric Locomotive

  • Sergey Goolak,
  • Viktor Tkachenko,
  • Pavol Šťastniak,
  • Svitlana Sapronova and
  • Borys Liubarskyi

13 January 2022

The analysis of operating conditions of traction drives of electric locomotives with asynchronous traction motors has been carried out. It was found that during operation in the output converter of an asynchronous motor, defects may occur, which lead...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Principles in Latest Advances and Prospects of the Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,975 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2020

There is a growing demand for robust and accurate positioning information for various applications, including the self-driving car industry. Such applications rely mainly on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), including the Global Position...

  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
22 Pages

Timescale-Separation-Based Source Seeking for USV

  • Chenxi Gong,
  • Hexuan Wang,
  • Chongqing Chen and
  • Zhenghong Jin

18 December 2025

The primary objective of this study is to enable an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to autonomously approach the extremum of an unknown scalar field using only real-time field measurements. To this end, a source-seeking method based on timescale separ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Coordination Control for Autonomous UUVs)
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  • Open Access
493 Views
22 Pages

12 August 2026

Long-horizon navigation requires a high-level policy to select locally reachable subgoals, yet a scalar task reward provides little information about how an unsuitable proposal should be changed. We introduce Simulated Corrective Subgoal Supervision...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Application in Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
24 Pages

7 October 2026

High-temperature two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC) can produce spatially unstable strain fields and biased condition-averaged incremental strains, but these error signatures need not respond to the same processing. A smoother strain...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
429 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2026

Biological control often combines selective sensing, complementary response scales, and attenuation under weak evidence. Guided by these principles, this paper presents Spectrum-Guided Identifiable Single-Anchor Range Compensation (SGIS-RC), a determ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Data-Driven Methods and Their Applications in Engineering Control, Optimization and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,941 Views
11 Pages

18 December 2020

A surface integral equation (SIE) method is applied in order to analyze electromagnetic scattering by bounded arbitrarily shaped three-dimensional objects with the SHDB boundary condition. SHDB is a generalization of SH (Soft-and-Hard) and DB boundar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Complex Media Electromagnetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,539 Views
8 Pages

An Experimental Study of the Special Aspects of Scalar-Vector Sound Field Spatial Structures in the Shallow Sea Area

  • Yury Morgunov,
  • Aleksandr Golov,
  • Aleksandr Burenin,
  • Peter Unru and ,
  • Aleksandr Rodionov and
  • Lubov Statsenko
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 January 2018

This paper discusses the results of an experimental study of the spatial structure of a scalar-vector sound field formed during towing of a low-frequency acoustic source on the continental shelf of the Sea of Japan. Methodologically, the experiment w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustics, Communications and Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,319 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2022

This article presents the results of experimental studies of asynchronous motors with a short-circuited rotor (induction motors—IM) with the most common frequency control methods: scalar; vector control; vector with speed control circuit; scala...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
11,942 Views
23 Pages

A Novel HMM Distributed Classifier for the Detection of Gait Phases by Means of a Wearable Inertial Sensor Network

  • Juri Taborri,
  • Stefano Rossi,
  • Eduardo Palermo,
  • Fabrizio Patanè and
  • Paolo Cappa

2 September 2014

In this work, we decided to apply a hierarchical weighted decision, proposed and used in other research fields, for the recognition of gait phases. The developed and validated novel distributed classifier is based on hierarchical weighted decision fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Sensors and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,929 Views
16 Pages

The effect of an intensity measure’s (IM’s) sufficiency property on the probabilistic assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures due to floor-to-floor structural pounding conditions is examined. In the first part of this investigat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seismic Analysis of Multistoried Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,759 Views
20 Pages

7 June 2025

The design of scaffolds and prostheses benefits from the opportunities provided by additive manufacturing technologies. Specifically, scaffold design using cellular structures based on lattices has become a significant focus. These lattice-based scaf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing and Materials Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,546 Views
13 Pages

Comparison of Feedback Three-Axis Magnetic Attitude Control Strategies

  • Dmitry Roldugin,
  • Anna Okhitina,
  • Uliana Monakhova and
  • Mikhail Ovchinnikov

21 November 2023

In this article, five feedback magnetic attitude control algorithms are compared in terms of stabilization accuracy and implementation problems. The control strategies are classic Lyapunov control with scalar gain; the same control strategy with matr...

(This article belongs to the Collection Space Systems Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
35 Pages

Beyond the Short-Circuit Ratio: Control-Aware Online Assessment of Dynamic System Strength via Gray-Box Identification of Converter Dynamics

  • Fan Li,
  • Jishuo Qin,
  • Jialei Zhang,
  • Hanqing Liang and ,
  • Rui Shi and
  • Dan Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 September 2026

Conventional network-only short-circuit ratios (SCRs) do not quantify converter-control dependence or the reliability of a measurement-derived dynamic model. This paper combines an EMS network prior with structured converter identification, a return-...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
208 Views
23 Pages

Closed-Form Gramians and Riccati Solutions for Reduced Second-Order Energy-System Benchmarks

  • Muhammad Saeed Ahmad,
  • Mujahid Abbas and
  • Muhammad Waseem Asghar

8 October 2026

Reduced circuit and electromechanical models often lead to the scalar second-order system ay″+by′+cy=u(t). General controllability, minimum-input-energy, and LQR results for such systems are standard; the contribution here is an explicit...

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