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34 Citations
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28 February 2024

This paper focuses on the speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) for electric drives with model uncertainties and external disturbances. Conventional sliding mode control (CSMC) can only converge asymptotically in the infinite d...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,645 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Control of a Non-Linear System Using a Modified Sliding Mode Control

  • Saad Jamshed Abbasi,
  • Karam Dad Kallu and
  • Min Cheol Lee

27 March 2019

Trajectory tracking is an essential requirement in robot manipulator movement and localization applications. It is a current research topic of interest, and several researchers have proposed different schemes to achieve the task accurately. This rese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Sliding Mode Control in Robots)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,494 Views
23 Pages

Sliding Mode Speed Control for PMSM Based on Model Predictive Current

  • Weihong Zhou,
  • Zhe Song,
  • Xi Xiao,
  • Yougui Guo and
  • Yu Mo

To enhance the dynamic performance and disturbance rejection capability of the permanent magnet synchronous motor speed control system, a novel speed control method based on a novel sliding mode control (NSMC) and load torque observer is proposed on...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
10,781 Views
18 Pages

This paper describes the design of a robust composite high-order super-twisting sliding mode controller (HOSTSMC) for robot manipulators. Robot manipulators are extensively used in industrial manufacturing for many complex and specialized application...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,161 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2020

This paper proposes a novel sliding mode control (SMC) scheme with a repetitive sliding surface for shunt active power filters (SAPF) to enhance the system robustness and eliminate harmonic current tracking errors. Traditional control schemes, such a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Strategies for Power Conversion Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,779 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control with Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Servo Control

  • Difen Shi,
  • Kai Bodemann,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Changliang Xu and ,
  • Lulu Liu and
  • Chungui Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 September 2024

This article proposes a novel nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (N-NFTSMC) with a sliding mode disturbance observer (SDOB) for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo control. Firstly, to reduce the chattering issue, a new slidin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Process Operation State Sensing and Performance Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,648 Views
19 Pages

7 April 2020

In this paper, an active fault-tolerant control for a robot manipulator based on synchronous sliding mode is proposed. As the synchronization errors approach zero, the joint errors tend to become equal and also approach zero. Therefore, the synchroni...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
645 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2025

The induction motors are once again becoming increasingly more popular due to the shifts in global politics and economics. With this increased interest, there is a growing need for even better control solutions, especially for the automotive industry...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,959 Views
18 Pages

16 March 2022

MEMS (micro electrical mechanical systems) gyroscopes are used to measure the angular rate in several applications. The performance of a MEMS gyroscope is dependent on more than one factor, such as mechanical imperfections, environmental condition-de...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,767 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2023

Underwater robots play a vital role in the exploration and development of marine resources and the inspection and maintenance of offshore platforms. In this paper, the motion control technology of ROV is studied, the kinematics and dynamics of ROV ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Control: Design and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
596 Views
20 Pages

Super-Twisting Algorithm-Based Sensorless Sliding-Mode Control for PMSM

  • Shuanglong Wu,
  • Shubin Chen,
  • Xiaoxing Ye,
  • Jiajun Rao and ,
  • Yijie He,
  • Xing Shu,
  • Shaotao Chen,
  • Caixia Lin and
  • Long Qi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

To address the issues of sluggish dynamic response, significant steady-state fluctuations, and poor disturbance rejection associated with traditional proportional–integral (PI) and conventional speed control methods, a novel sensorless sliding-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,408 Views
20 Pages

This work presents a nested super-twisting second-order sliding mode speed controller for a brushless direct current motor with a high order sliding mode observer used for back electromotive force (back-EMF) estimation. Due to the trapezoidal nature...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Issues on Motors and Motor Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,301 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2023

This paper aims to develop a novel hierarchical recursive nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller (HRNTSMC), which is designed to stabilize the inverted pendulum (IP). In contrast to existing hierarchical sliding mode controllers (HSMC), the HRN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Precision Actuation Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,431 Views
12 Pages

4 February 2021

We propose a control method wherein the estimated angles converge to the desired value for quadrotor attitude stabilization and position tracking. To improve the performance of a quadrotor system, the unmeasured states of the quadrotor are estimated...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,064 Views
28 Pages

6 March 2026

To address the chattering phenomenon and sensitivity to load disturbances in conventional sliding mode observers (SMO) for sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) control, this paper proposes a robust sensorless control strategy integrat...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,057 Views
27 Pages

Fast Finite-Time Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control with an Extended State Higher-Order Sliding Mode Observer for UUV Trajectory Tracking

  • Liwei Guo,
  • Weidong Liu,
  • Le Li,
  • Jingming Xu and ,
  • Kang Zhang and
  • Yuang Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 January 2024

This paper proposes a trajectory tracking control scheme consisting of a fast finite-time super-twisting sliding mode control (FSTSMC) approach and an extended state higher-order sliding mode observer (ESHSMO) for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,973 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2024

Variable structure control systems are known to provide a high level of robustness to external disturbances and modeling uncertainties with comparably low computational complexity. Thanks to these features, they have found applications in various fie...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,874 Views
14 Pages

Stabilization and Tracking of a Quadrotor Using Modified Sigmoid Sliding Mode Control

  • Mingyuan Hu,
  • Kyunghyun Lee,
  • Hyeongki Ahn,
  • Ahyeong Choi and ,
  • Hyunchang Kim and
  • Kwanho You
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 May 2022

A modified sigmoid sliding mode control (MS-SMC) approach is proposed for stabilizing and tracking a quadrotor system with a nonlinear sliding surface, where the dynamics model is underactuated, highly coupled, and nonlinear. The constructed nonlinea...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,319 Views
18 Pages

Self-Docking Characteristics and Sliding Mode Control on Space Electromagnetic Docking Mechanism

  • Boyu Wei,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Ning Kong,
  • Shuai Ma and ,
  • Bo Wang and
  • Runqi Han
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2023

Electromagnetic docking technology can realize the flexible docking and safe separation of spacecraft, and presents broad application prospects. However, an electromagnetic force with nonlinearity and uncertainty properties increases the difficulties...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,878 Views
23 Pages

Sliding-Mode Control for PMLSM Position Control—A Review

  • Lijuan Yu,
  • Jie Huang,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Shuyuan Chang and ,
  • Huilu Sun and
  • Hailong Tian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 January 2023

Owing to the competitive advantages of fast response speed, large pushing force, high reliability, and high precision, the permanent magnet linear synchronous motor (PMLSM) has played an increasingly vital role in various high-speed and high-precisio...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
88 Citations
6,497 Views
20 Pages

1 May 2020

The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind energy conversion systems (WECSs) are prone to certain uncertainties, nonlinearities, and external disturbances. The maximum power transfer from WECS to the utility grid system requires a high-perf...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
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  • Open Access
248 Views
14 Pages

Dynamics Analysis of a Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Controller for Disturbed Linear Systems

  • Gang Chen,
  • Ruwei Liu,
  • Yanggang Li,
  • Wei Wu and ,
  • Rui Yu,
  • Junkui Dong,
  • Jinye Zhao,
  • Chenguang Yang,
  • Huosheng Hu and
  • Chuanyu Wu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

2 October 2026

This paper proposes a discrete-time sliding mode controller for a class of disturbed linear systems and investigates its dynamic characteristics. First, a novel discrete-time sliding mode reaching law is developed by redefining the variation rate of...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,382 Views
12 Pages

Modelling, Simulation and Dynamic Sliding Mode Control of a MEMS Gyroscope

  • Yunmei Fang,
  • Wen Fu,
  • Cuicui An,
  • Zhuli Yuan and
  • Juntao Fei

13 February 2021

An adaptive dynamic sliding mode control via a backstepping approach for a microelectro mechanical system (MEMS) vibratory z-axis gyroscope is presented in this paper. The time derivative of the control input of the dynamic sliding mode controller (D...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,604 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2020

High-performance control of inertial stabilization imaging sensors (ISISs) is always challenging because of the complex nonlinearities induced by friction, mass imbalance, and external disturbances. To overcome this problem, a terminal sliding mode c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Robot Control)
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272 Citations
16,985 Views
27 Pages

Robust Speed Control of PMSM Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC)—A Review

  • Fardila Mohd Zaihidee,
  • Saad Mekhilef and
  • Marizan Mubin

1 May 2019

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are known as highly efficient motors and are slowly replacing induction motors in diverse industries. PMSM systems are nonlinear and consist of time-varying parameters with high-order complex dynamics. High...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation, Control and Energy Efficiency in Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,520 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2021

This study considers the problem of energetical efficiency in switching type sliding mode control of discrete-time systems. The aim of this work is to reduce the quasi-sliding mode band-width and, as follows, the necessary control input, through an a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sliding Mode Control in Electromechanical Systems)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,443 Views
32 Pages

Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Quadrotor UAV Trajectory

  • Yohannes Lisanewerk Mulualem,
  • Gang Gyoo Jin,
  • Jaesung Kwon and
  • Jongkap Ahn

6 October 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have become widely used in many fields, ranging from agriculture to military operations, due to recent advances in technology and decreases in costs. Quadrotors are particularly important UAV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Modeling and Simulation for Control Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,545 Views
18 Pages

Full-Order Terminal Sliding-Mode Control for Soft Open Point

  • Minghao Zhou,
  • Hongyu Su,
  • Haoyu Zhou,
  • Likun Wang and ,
  • Yi Liu and
  • Haofan Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 July 2022

In this paper, a full-order terminal sliding-mode control method is proposed for the rectifier side and the inverter side of the soft open point (SOP). The rectifier-side DC voltage control system consists of the voltage- and current-loops with contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Research Trends of Distributed Control and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,385 Views
15 Pages

Design of Sensorless Speed Control System for Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor Based on Fuzzy Super-Twisted Sliding Mode Observer

  • Zheng Li,
  • Jinsong Wang,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Shengdi Feng and ,
  • Yiding Zhu and
  • Hexu Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To improve the tracking capability and sensorless estimation accuracy of a permanent magnet linear synchronous motor (PMLSM) control system, a sensorless control system based on a continuous terminal sliding mode controller (CT-SMC) and fuzzy super-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sliding Mode Control in Dynamic Systems)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,741 Views
17 Pages

29 May 2022

Control of closed-kinematic chain manipulators (CKCM) with uncertain dynamics is a tremendous challenge due to the synchronization among actual joints and end-effectors, limited workspace, and nonexistent closed-form solutions of forward kinematics....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Control of Mechatronic and Robotic Systems, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,989 Views
21 Pages

5 June 2022

Aiming at the problem of convergence speed and chattering in sliding mode variable structure control of manipulator, an improved exponential reaching law and nonlinear sliding surface are proposed, and the Lyapunov function is used to analyze its sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Problem of Nonlinear Systems with Applications)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,931 Views
18 Pages

Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of PMSM Based on Improved Exponential Reaching Law

  • Changhong Jiang,
  • Qiming Wang,
  • Zonghao Li,
  • Niaona Zhang and
  • Haitao Ding

When a permanent magnet synchronous motor runs at low speed, the inverter will output discontinuous current and generate torque ripple; when the motor is runs at high speed, a large amount of stator harmonic current generates, which affects its speed...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1,712 Views
11 Pages

20 June 2024

This paper investigates the problem of sliding mode control for a class of hybrid switched systems with matching disturbances. Firstly, a sliding mode surface is designed, and the corresponding sliding mode equation for the switched system is derived...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,495 Views
19 Pages

27 September 2019

In this study, a sliding mode control (SMC) algorithm was proposed based on a novel reaching law to solve the nonlinear disturbance problem of a ground-based laser communication turntable. This algorithm is a chatter-free method, in which the coeffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mechanical Systems Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
969 Views
19 Pages

18 July 2025

In this paper, a robust optimized controller is implemented in the photovoltaic generator system (PVGS). The PVGS is composed of individual photovoltaic (PV) cells, which convert solar energy to electrical energy. To optimize the efficiency of the PV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Intelligent Control in Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,050 Views
25 Pages

31 January 2025

This paper contains an example of a simulation implementation of sliding mode control algorithms for the problem of adjusting the linear position of a quadrotor. A mathematical model of the drone was proposed, which was then implemented in a simulati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotic Systems and Automatic Control: Mathematical Models, Technologies, Applications and Challenges)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,715 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Second-Order Sliding Mode Control of Buck Converters with Multi-Disturbances

  • Yanmin Wang,
  • Weiqi Zhang,
  • Yalong Yang,
  • Chen Xue and ,
  • Shibo Yuan and
  • Hanqing Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 July 2022

In this paper, a novel adaptive second-order sliding mode (2-SM) control approach, based on online zero-crossing detection, was proposed to solve the problems of the chattering and fixed control gain for buck converters with multi-disturbances. In mo...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,566 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2025

Addressing the problem of poor robustness and anti-interference ability in the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) speed control system, an adaptive fractional-order sliding mode controller based on a fractional-order sliding mode disturbance o...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,342 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2021

This paper develops a sliding-mode control with an improved nonlinear extended state observer (SMC-INESO) for the rotation system of a hydraulic roofbolter with dead-zones, uncertain gain, and disturbances, with the purpose of improving tracking perf...

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34 Citations
9,278 Views
30 Pages

Sliding Mode Control with Application to Fault-Tolerant Control: Assessment and Open Problems

  • Jazmín Zenteno-Torres,
  • Jérôme Cieslak,
  • Jorge Dávila and
  • David Henry

4 February 2021

This paper is prepared within a collaboration between the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, which is a Mexican research institute that manages research on sliding-mode control theory, and the ARIA research team of the Intégration du Matériau au Système...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,207 Views
25 Pages

12 August 2025

This study proposes a hierarchical composite adaptive sliding-mode control strategy to address the strong nonlinear dynamics of a hexarotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and the external disturbances encountered during flight. First, within the posit...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,716 Views
15 Pages

Smart transformation and green development are the core research directions of electric vehicles. An electric tractor is powered by the vehicle battery. The motor converts electric energy into mechanical energy and drives the wheels through the drive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Vehicle System Dynamics and Control)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,582 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2023

This paper proposes an output feedback sliding-mode control design based on a switched robust integral sliding mode for switched systems with unmatched uncertainties. First, the control task based on the observer is given while the system state infor...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,265 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2023

In order to enhance the precision and speed of control for electronic throttle valves (ETVs) in the face of disturbance and parameter uncertainties, an adaptive second-order fixed-time sliding mode (ASOFxTSM) controller is developed, along with distu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Control with Applications to Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,643 Views
17 Pages

Based on the problems of sliding mode observer (SMO), such as strong parameter dependency, large overshoot, and severe inherent sliding mode chattering, this paper studies fuzzy control in depth using a sigmoid (s) function with smooth and continuous...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,329 Views
18 Pages

28 May 2024

In response to the trajectory tracking control problem of manipulators under measurement disturbances, a novel multi-input multi-output discrete integral terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Initially, this scheme establishes a dynamic m...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
959 Views
24 Pages

This paper presents a systematic experimental comparison of three sliding-mode-based current control strategies—traditional sliding mode control (SMC), fast terminal sliding mode control (FTSMC), and super-twisting sliding mode control (STSMC)&...

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  • Open Access
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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,675 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2023

This article aims to develop a new Adaptive Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Nonsingular Dual Terminal Sliding Mode Control, designed for tracking the position of robot manipulators under disturbances and uncertainties. Compared with existing P...

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23 Citations
6,137 Views
27 Pages

24 July 2020

A balance control method, the proportional-integral sliding mode control (PISMC), is proposed to control the tilt attitude of an experimental two-wheel vehicle system (TWVS). Based on our previous work of implementing a generalized PISMC to control a...

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