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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,581 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2019

Electric servo system (ESS) is a servo mechanism in a control system of an aircraft, a ship, etc., which controls efficiency and directly affects the energy consumption and the dynamic characteristics of the system. However, the control performance o...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,290 Views
24 Pages

Exploring the Essence of Servo Pump Control

  • Guishan Yan,
  • Zhenlin Jin,
  • Tiangui Zhang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Chao Ai and
  • Gexin Chen

16 April 2022

The electrohydraulic servo variable speed volume pump control system (hereinafter referred to as ESPCS) is integrated with a permanent magnet synchronous motor (hereinafter referred to as servo motor), a fixed-displacement pump, and a hydraulic cylin...

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  • Open Access
632 Views
13 Pages

This study proposes a novel framework to enhance inner race fault features in servo motor bearings by acquiring rotary encoder-derived instantaneous angular speed (IAS) signals, which are obtained from a servo motor encoder without requiring addition...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,046 Views
22 Pages

Studies on the Thermal Behavior of an Electro-Hydrostatic Servo Actuator

  • Liviu Dinca,
  • Jenica-Ileana Corcau,
  • Teodor Lucian Grigorie,
  • Andra-Adelina Cucu and
  • Bogdan Vasilescu

23 January 2025

This paper presents a study on the thermal behavior of an electro-hydrostatic servo actuator designed to actuate the ailerons of an airliner. The considered servo actuator was designed using existing commercial off-the-shelf components (electric moto...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,759 Views
11 Pages

Design and Control of a Linear Rotary Electro-Hydraulic Servo Drive Unit

  • Andrzej Milecki,
  • Arkadiusz Jakubowski and
  • Arkadiusz Kubacki

26 July 2023

In this paper, a new solution for an electro-hydraulic servo drive is proposed, which consists of two electro-hydraulic servo drives: one with a hydraulic cylinder and one with a hydraulic rotary motor. In the proposed drive, the linear actuator is a...

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  • Open Access
696 Views
20 Pages

3 October 2025

With the rapid progress of industrial technology in recent years, servo controllers have the characteristics of precise control and short response time and are widely used in different industrial fields. As for the electro-hydraulic servo valve being...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,035 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2023

Autonomy is the main task of a quadrotor, and visual servoing assists with this task while providing fault tolerance under GPS failure. The main approach to visual servoing is image-based visual servoing, which uses image features directly without th...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,481 Views
15 Pages

An Intelligent Control Method for Servo Motor Based on Reinforcement Learning

  • Depeng Gao,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Yuwei Yang,
  • Haifei Zhang,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Xiangxiang Mei,
  • Shuxi Chen and
  • Jianlin Qiu

28 December 2023

Servo motors play an important role in automation equipment and have been used in several manufacturing fields. However, the commonly used control methods need their parameters to be set manually, which is rather difficult, and this means that these...

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  • Open Access
1,473 Views
16 Pages

Research on Electro-Hydraulic Servo Resonance Technology

  • Xiuguang Yang,
  • Peng Liu and
  • Hongwei Zhao

20 June 2024

In this paper, an electro-hydraulic servo resonance technology is proposed to meet the loading requirements of a high-frequency sound fatigue test for large tonnage. First of all, we analyze the static and dynamic loading structure of electro-hydraul...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,012 Views
18 Pages

Development of a Novel Dual Servo Magnetic Levitation Stage

  • Dahoon Ahn,
  • Ji-Won Jin,
  • Hyeeun Yun and
  • Jaeheon Jeong

30 May 2022

The main objective of this paper is to propose, design, and control a novel dual servo magnetic levitation stage which is precise and vacuum compatible. The dual servo mechanism, comprising a coarse stage and a fine stage, was applied to a magnetic l...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,325 Views
25 Pages

9 October 2023

The dynamic servo error of heavy-duty vertical machining centres is one of the decisive factors affecting the machining accuracy of large and complex parts. Due to the characteristics of large mass, large load, and the large travel distance of the ma...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,266 Views
14 Pages

Development of a Four-Way Pinch-Type Servo Valve for Pneumatic Actuator

  • Kotaro Tadano,
  • Yasumasa Ishida and
  • Hisami Takeishi

5 February 2020

Pneumatic servo valves are key components of pneumatic servo systems. Multi-degree-of-freedom systems, such as robot systems, utilize many servo valves to control their actuators. However, conventional servo valves always consume air due to leakage e...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,281 Views
21 Pages

A “Global–Local” Visual Servo System for Picking Manipulators

  • Yinggang Shi,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Zhiwen Li,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Li Liu and
  • Yongjie Cui

14 June 2020

During the process of automated crop picking, the two hand–eye coordination operation systems, namely “eye to hand” and “eye in hand” have their respective advantages and disadvantages. It is challenging to simultaneousl...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,293 Views
13 Pages

Development of a Visual Servo System for Robotic Fruit Harvesting

  • Duke M. Bulanon,
  • Colton Burr,
  • Marina DeVlieg,
  • Trevor Braddock and
  • Brice Allen

One of the challenges in the future of food production, amidst increasing population and decreasing resources, is developing a sustainable food production system. It is anticipated that robotics will play a significant role in maintaining the food pr...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,659 Views
18 Pages

Control Strategy of Speed Servo Systems Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Pengzhan Chen,
  • Zhiqiang He,
  • Chuanxi Chen and
  • Jiahong Xu

5 May 2018

We developed a novel control strategy of speed servo systems based on deep reinforcement learning. The control parameters of speed servo systems are difficult to regulate for practical applications, and problems of moment disturbance and inertia muta...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,176 Views
13 Pages

Numerical Simulation for Redundant Electro-Hydrostatic Servo-Actuators under Certain Special Conditions

  • Liviu Dinca,
  • Radu Bogateanu,
  • Jenica-Ileana Corcau,
  • Alexandru Dumitrache and
  • Bogdan Suatean

15 August 2022

This work presents some numerical simulations, performed using AMESim software, for a system composed by two redundant servo-actuators. Certain operating conditions are taken into account for these two electro-hydrostatic servo-actuators, which are c...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,843 Views
17 Pages

Hybrid Visual Servo Control of a Robotic Manipulator for Cherry Tomato Harvesting

  • Yi-Rong Li,
  • Wei-Yuan Lien,
  • Zhi-Hong Huang and
  • Chun-Ta Chen

16 June 2023

This paper aims to develop a visual servo control of a robotic manipulator for cherry tomato harvesting. In the robotic manipulator, an RGB-depth camera was mounted to the end effector to acquire the poses of the target cherry tomatoes in space. The...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,729 Views
22 Pages

Analysis and Suppression of Self-Excited Oscillations in Pressure Servo Valve System

  • Jian Huang,
  • Qiwei Zhang,
  • Fan Zhao,
  • Xiangyu Liu and
  • Tianyi Wang

25 August 2022

In this paper, the phenomenon of pressure servo valve system self-excited oscillation is studied, the dynamic model of the system is established, and the validity of the model is verified by experimental analysis. On this basis, it is concluded that...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,277 Views
12 Pages

Development of a Poppet-Type Pneumatic Servo Valve

  • Takahiro Kanno,
  • Takashi Hasegawa,
  • Tetsuro Miyazaki,
  • Nobuyuki Yamamoto,
  • Daisuke Haraguchi and
  • Kenji Kawashima

31 October 2018

In pneumatic positioning and force-control systems, spool-type servo valves are widely used for obtaining quick responses and precise control. However, air leakage from these valves results in increased energy consumption. To address this problem, we...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,877 Views
18 Pages

Research on PID Position Control of a Hydraulic Servo System Based on Kalman Genetic Optimization

  • Ying-Qing Guo,
  • Xiu-Mei Zha,
  • Yao-Yu Shen,
  • Yi-Na Wang and
  • Gang Chen

15 June 2022

With the wide application of hydraulic servo technology in control systems, the requirement of hydraulic servo position control performance is greater and greater. In order to solve the problems of slow response, poor precision, and weak anti-interfe...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,337 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2020

In sheet metal forming manufacturing operations the use of servo presses is gaining more interest due to the opportunity to improve process performance (quality, productivity, cost reduction, etc.). It is not yet clear how to proceed in the engineeri...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,911 Views
19 Pages

Modelling and Transmission Characteristics Analysis of APU Pneumatic Servo System

  • Fang Yang,
  • Mengqi Wang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Zipeng Guo and
  • Lingyun Yue

23 October 2024

The auxiliary power unit (APU), which is a compact gas turbine engine, is employed to provide a stable compressed air supply to the aircraft. This compressed air is introduced into the various aircraft components via the pneumatic servo system, there...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,008 Views
17 Pages

A Study of Friction Nonlinearity and Compensation for Turntable Servo Systems

  • Minjie Yan,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Rana Md Sohel,
  • Runze Ji and
  • Hairong Ye

7 September 2024

In view of the worse dynamic performance and steady-state accuracy caused by nonlinear friction in turntable servo systems, challenges are posed in precise positioning tasks. However, most of the existing research ignores the effect of friction on sy...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,505 Views
11 Pages

Investigation of Torque Ripple in Servo Motors with Different Magnet Geometries

  • Hacı Dedecan,
  • Engin Ayçiçek and
  • Mustafa Gürkan Aydeniz

Servo motors are among the most efficient and precise performers within the category of permanent magnet synchronous motors. These motors stand out for their high power density, quiet operation, low maintenance, and wide operating speed range advanta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,151 Views
15 Pages

Design and Verification of Two-Stage Brake Pressure Servo Valve for Aircraft Brake System

  • Lilei Zhang,
  • Zhipeng Huang,
  • Chengwei Fu,
  • Yuepeng Xu,
  • Yunhe Wang and
  • Xiangdong Kong

1 June 2021

Wheel braking devices is some of the most widely used landing deceleration devices in modern aircraft. Jet pipe pressure servo valves are widely used in large aircraft wheel brake control systems because of their high anti-pollution ability, high sen...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,814 Views
18 Pages

20 December 2024

Many applications in manufacturing, physical therapy, and machining require linear motion stages to move back and forth at specified rates without exceeding the capabilities of the stages. Growing interest has also been in using integrated servo moto...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,554 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2021

With the rise of smart robots in the field of industrial automation, the motion control theory of the robot servo controller has become a research hotspot. The parameter mismatch of the controller will reduce the efficiency of the equipment and damag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
773 Views
20 Pages

Model Tests of the Influence of Excavation Unloading and Servo Loading on Subway Foundation Pits

  • Gang Wei,
  • Weihao Feng,
  • Xuehua Wu,
  • Pengfei Wu,
  • Kuan Chang,
  • Hang Li,
  • Shuaihua Ye and
  • Zhe Wang

15 June 2025

In deep foundation pit engineering, the rational arrangement of internal struts plays a crucial role in controlling diaphragm wall displacement and minimizing environmental impacts. This study investigates the effects of servo steel struts through mo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,017 Views
16 Pages

A Precise Modeling Method for PMSM Servo System of Spacecraft

  • Hang Xu,
  • Zhe Song,
  • Xi Xiao,
  • Yu Mo,
  • Weihong Zhou and
  • Pengfei Wu

30 January 2024

Permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo system is the control and execution mechanism of spacecraft, and its precise modeling is of great practical significance for improving the performance of the spacecraft. A comprehensive model considerin...

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  • Open Access
706 Views
11 Pages

Visual Servo-Based Real-Time Eye Tracking by Delta Robot

  • Maria Muzamil Memon,
  • Aarif Hussain,
  • Abdulrhman Mohammed,
  • Ali Manthar,
  • Songjing Li and
  • Weiyang Lin

25 November 2025

This work presents and validates an eye-tracking-based visual system for driving the delta robot. A delta robot is tracked by image processing based on vision servo control. The vision servo program is developed in C++ to perform image processing-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,760 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2020

Hydraulic servo actuator is used as the core actuator in tensile compression fatigue life test equipment as it operates the micro displacement very precisely at a high frequency and can be used continuously for a long period of time. Recently, the li...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,455 Views
36 Pages

16 June 2023

Direct-drive electro-hydraulic servo valves are widely used in the aerospace industry, in the military, and in remote sensing control, but there is little research and discussion on their performance degradation and service life prediction. Based on...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,532 Views
17 Pages

Reducing servo response error and further making reduction on contour error is crucial for high-precision computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. For a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo system, there is always a response lag in...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,455 Views
17 Pages

Research on the Nonlinear Characteristic of Flow in the Electro-Hydraulic Servo Pump Control System

  • Tiangui Zhang,
  • Gexin Chen,
  • Guishan Yan,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Yuan Li and
  • Chao Ai

7 May 2021

In an electro-hydraulic servo system, the system flow is used as an intermediate variable to control the output displacement/force/speed of the actuator, and it plays the role of a medium for energy transmission and conversion. Therefore, the control...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,675 Views
27 Pages

14 January 2022

Assistive robotic arms (ARAs) that provide care to the elderly and people with disabilities, are a significant part of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Presently available ARAs provide non-intuitive interfaces such as joysticks for control and thus, la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,806 Views
16 Pages

This study demonstrates the design and field implementation of an innovative servo concrete bracing system in foundation pit excavation. The bracing system comprises concrete struts, revised purlins, and hydraulic jacks, and its field performance is...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,370 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2022

This article presents static and dynamic characteristics of artificial pneumatic muscles. The research stance and the methodology for their determination are described. A mathematical model of a pneumatic muscle has been proposed, having two inputs&m...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,096 Views
20 Pages

Dynamic Response Analysis of Control Loops in an Electro-Hydraulic Servo Pump Control System

  • Wenguang Jiang,
  • Pengshuo Jia,
  • Guishan Yan,
  • Gexin Chen,
  • Chao Ai,
  • Tiangui Zhang,
  • Keyi Liu,
  • Chunyu Jia and
  • Wei Shen

19 August 2022

An electro-hydraulic servo pump control system realizes the basic action of a hydraulic cylinder by controlling the servo motor, which effectively improves the problems of a traditional valve control system such as high energy consumption, low power-...

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  • Open Access
121 Views
26 Pages

Dynamics Parameter Calibration for Performance Enhancement of Heavy-Duty Servo Press

  • Jian Li,
  • Shuaiyi Ma,
  • Bingqing Liu,
  • Tao Liu and
  • Zhen Wang

14 January 2026

The accuracy of dynamics parameters in the transmission system is essential for high-performance motion trajectory planning and stable operation of heavy-duty servo presses. To mitigate the performance degradation and potential overload risks caused...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,357 Views
28 Pages

Application of a Fractional Order PI Controller for a Speed Servo Drive Control

  • Pavol Bistak,
  • Igor Bélai,
  • Igor Bélai,
  • Damir Vrancic and
  • Mikulas Huba

18 November 2024

This paper deals with the tuning of the parameters of a fractional-order PI controller for the speed control of an electric servo drive in which the torque is set by a torque generator. The controller parameters are tuned using the multiple dominant...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,394 Views
11 Pages

Injection Molding Process Control of Servo–Hydraulic System

  • Chun-Ying Lin,
  • Fang-Cheng Shen,
  • Kuo-Tsai Wu,
  • Huei-Huang Lee and
  • Sheng-Jye Hwang

20 December 2019

The present study constructs a servo–hydraulic system to simulate the filling and packing processes of an injection molding machine. Experiments are performed to evaluate the velocity and position control of the system in the filling stage and...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,258 Views
18 Pages

Practical Adaptive Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Servo Motors

  • Kamran Ali,
  • Zhenwei Cao,
  • Kamal Rsetam and
  • Zhihong Man

22 November 2023

Position control of servo motor systems is a challenging task because of inevitable factors such as uncertainties, nonlinearities, parametric variations, and external perturbations. In this article, to alleviate the above issues, a practical adaptive...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,906 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2024

With the rapid development of the manufacturing industry toward intelligence and flexibility, traditional mechanical presses are unable to meet the increased stamping requirements due to the difficulties in achieving variable speed control and changi...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,882 Views
18 Pages

Research on Pressure-Flow Characteristics of Pilot Stage in Jet Pipe Servo-Valve

  • Shuangqi Kang,
  • Xiangdong Kong,
  • Jin Zhang and
  • Ranheng Du

25 December 2022

Jet pipe servo-valves are widely used in high-precision servo control systems. However, the accuracy of pressure-flow characteristic equations relevant to its pilot stage needs to be improved. In contrast to the traditional analytical approach using...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,245 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2022

Although it possesses the capabilities of both anti-contamination and rapid response, the deflector jet servo valve is still confronted with the issue of weak performance robustness, usually manifesting as considerable uncertainty of the product pres...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,178 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2021

Measurement noise, parametric uncertainties, and external disturbances broadly exist in electro-hydraulic servo systems, which terribly deteriorate the system control performance. To figure out this problem, a novel finite-time output feedback contro...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,330 Views
19 Pages

A Study on the Electro-Hydraulic Coupling Characteristics of an Electro-Hydraulic Servo Pump Control System

  • Wenguang Jiang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Pengshuo Jia,
  • Guishan Yan,
  • Rui Ma,
  • Gexin Chen,
  • Chao Ai and
  • Tiangui Zhang

5 August 2022

Electro-hydraulic servo pump control belongs to an electro-hydraulic coupling motion control system, which involves the mutual penetration and integration of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, control, and other disciplines, as well as the time-varyi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,172 Views
17 Pages

31 January 2023

When military and civil missions such as transportation increase, fault tolerant control of unmanned aerial vehicles will be an obligation. Although onboard sensors provide information about the status of a quadrotor, the camera is not included in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,253 Views
22 Pages

Multi-motor servo systems are widely used in industrial control. However, the single-core microprocessor architecture based on the microcontroller unit (MCU) and digital signal processor (DSP) is not well suited for high-performance multi-motor servo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,106 Views
15 Pages

An Intelligent Nonlinear Control Method for the Multistage Electromechanical Servo System

  • Yunxiao Lian,
  • Yong Zhou,
  • Jianxin Zhang,
  • Shangjun Ma and
  • Shuai Wu

17 May 2022

In order to meet the requirements of servo systems, including sensitive and rapid adjustment, high control and motion accuracy, and strong working adaptability, in special application fields, such as high thrust and long travel, an adaptive inversion...

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