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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,598 Views
21 Pages

Research on Pressure Control of an Electro-Hydraulic Servo System Based on Sliding-Mode Variable-Structure Direct Torque Control

  • Rongsheng Liu,
  • Zekai Wang,
  • Pengshuo Jia,
  • Guishan Yan,
  • Tiangui Zhang,
  • Chunyu Jia and
  • Gexin Chen

29 December 2022

Taking a direct-drive volume control (DDVC) electro-hydraulic servo system as the research object and aiming at the problems of the servo motor torque fluctuation, high-precision system pressure control, and dynamic response of the system, based on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,507 Views
10 Pages

20 October 2021

Laser processing plays an important role in industrial manufacturing, in which a galvanometer scanner (GS) functions as the core component of the laser processing equipment. With the development of the digital system, the GS based on the digital syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Micro/Nano Machining Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
648 Views
19 Pages

16 February 2026

To reduce the impact of periodic pulsating torque and non-periodic disturbances on the speed control performance of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), a sliding mode variable structure control method incorporating iterative learning compens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Motor Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,835 Views
18 Pages

This paper is concerned with a novel event-triggered sliding mode variable structure control (ESMC) scheme to achieve robust stabilization of memristive systems (MSs). First, a memory-based sliding surface, including the past and the current informat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments on Time-Delay Systems and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,553 Views
13 Pages

19 October 2018

This paper discusses an automatic parking control method based on the combination of the sliding mode variable structure control (SMVSC) and fuzzy logical control. SMVSC is applied to drive the vehicle from a random initial position and pose, to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,491 Views
18 Pages

15 May 2023

To address the issues that arise when auto-leveling the vehicle body of a hillside tractor under complex working conditions, an auto-leveling control system was developed based on a newly developed hillside tractor and four-point body leveling mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,488 Views
15 Pages

In order to meet the accuracy requirements and tracking performance of continuous rotary electro-hydraulic servo motor system under nonlinear uncertainty and strong disturbance factors, the sliding mode variable structure composite control strategy b...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,133 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2024

This paper addresses the issue of agile attitude maneuver control for low-Earth-orbit satellites during short arc segments for multi-target observations. Specifically, a configuration design for Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs) and a hybrid control l...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,011 Views
16 Pages

Anti-Lock Braking System Performance Optimization Based on Fitted-Curve Road-Surface Recognition and Sliding-Mode Variable-Structure Control

  • Haiqing Zhou,
  • Wenguang Liu,
  • Ruochen Wang,
  • Renkai Ding,
  • Zhongyang Guo,
  • Qing Ye,
  • Xiangpeng Meng,
  • Dong Sun and
  • Wei Liu

This paper conducts an in-depth study on anti-lock braking technology in electronic hydraulic braking systems, focusing on a road-surface recognition algorithm based on fitted curves and a slip-rate control method based on sliding-mode variable struc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Modeling, Identification, and Advanced Control of Intelligent Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,003 Views
14 Pages

13 June 2016

In order to improve the performance of the Bearingless Induction Motor (BIM) under large disturbances (such as parameter variations and load disturbances), an adaptive variable-rated sliding mode controller (ASMC) is designed to obtain better perform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques of Control for Energy Optimization in Actuators, Motors and Power Generation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,215 Views
18 Pages

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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,801 Views
18 Pages

Low-voltage and high-current direct current (DC) power supplies are essential for aerospace and shipping. However, its robustness and dynamic response need to be optimized further on some special occasions. In this paper, a novel rectification system...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,096 Views
17 Pages

5 November 2024

To address the issue of uncertainty in the occurrence time of voltage sags in power grids, which affects power quality, a voltage state prediction method based on LSTM neural networks is proposed for predicting voltage states. For the problem of quic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,425 Views
16 Pages

During the operation of valve-controlled cylinder position systems, there are some problems, such as uncertainty and time-varying of the system parameters, imprecise modeling, and external interference. These problems will affect the position loading...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,564 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,512 Views
27 Pages

6 January 2020

Variable structure control with sliding mode can provide good control performance and excellent robustness. Unfortunately, the chattering phenomenon investigated due to discontinuous switching gain restricting their applications. In this paper, a cha...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,612 Views
18 Pages

Research on Feedback-Linearized Sliding Mode Control of Direct-Drive Volume Control Electro-Hydraulic Servo System

  • Gexin Chen,
  • Pengshuo Jia,
  • Guishan Yan,
  • Huilong Liu,
  • Wenbin Chen,
  • Chunyu Jia and
  • Chao Ai

18 September 2021

In this paper, a control strategy combining the feedback linearization theory and sliding mode variable structure theory is proposed to solve various nonlinear factors, uncertainty of external disturbance and high-precision pressure control problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,701 Views
13 Pages

Position Control Study on Pump-Controlled Servomotor for Steam Control Valve

  • Guishan Yan,
  • Zhenlin Jin,
  • Tiangui Zhang and
  • Penghui Zhao

25 January 2021

In steam turbine control and actuation, the steam control valve plays a key role in operability and reliability. The electrohydraulic regulating system for the steam control valve, usually called the servomotor, needs to be reliable and high performi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,793 Views
24 Pages

An Improved S-Plane Controller for High-Speed Multi-Purpose AUVs with Situational Static Loads

  • Chunmeng Jiang,
  • Jinhua Lv,
  • Lei Wan,
  • Jianguo Wang,
  • Bin He and
  • Gongxing Wu

The classic S-plane control method combines PD structure with fuzzy control theory, with the advantages of a simple control structure and fewer parameters to be adjusted. It has been proved as a practical method in an autonomous underwater vehicle (A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Marine Vehicle Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,291 Views
23 Pages

15 May 2017

In this paper, a novel nonlinear robust damping controller is proposed to suppress power oscillation in interconnected power systems. The proposed power oscillation damping controller exhibits good nonlinearity and robustness. It can consider the str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric Power Systems Research 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,473 Views
24 Pages

Continuously Variable Geometry Quadrotor: Robust Control via PSO-Optimized Sliding Mode Control

  • Foad Hamzeh,
  • Siavash Fathollahi Dehkordi,
  • Alireza Naeimifard and
  • Afshin Abyaz

23 June 2025

This paper tackles the challenge of achieving robust and precise control for a novel quadrotor featuring continuously variable arm lengths (15 cm to 19 cm), enabling enhanced adaptability in complex environments. Unlike conventional fixed-geometry or...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,268 Views
23 Pages

Research on the New Hydrostatic Transmission System of Wheel Loaders Based on Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control

  • Xin Wang,
  • Zhongyu Wang,
  • Lei Xie,
  • Songlin Wang,
  • Zhongshan Wang and
  • Wenxing Ma

24 January 2024

To improve the control performance and energy efficiency of the hydrostatic transmission (HST) system of wheel loaders, this study proposes a novel variable structure dual-motor hydrostatic transmission system, accompanied by a multivariable control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,081 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2018

This paper investigates the skid steering of four-wheel independent-drive (4WID) electric vehicles (EV) and a differential steering of a 4WID EV with a steer-by-wire (SBW) system in case of steering failure. The dynamic models of skid steering vehicl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automation, Control and Energy Efficiency in Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,198 Views
21 Pages

4 April 2024

The traditional loader drive system is based on the hydraulic torque converter as the key component, and its gear is shifted through the coordination of the clutch and gearbox, which greatly increases power loss and operator fatigue. To address the a...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,494 Views
22 Pages

20 June 2025

High-performance UPS inverters prevent IoT devices from power outages, thus protecting critical data. This paper suggests an intelligent, robust control technique with closed-loop voltage sensing for UPS (uninterruptible power supply) inverters in Io...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Sensing and Computing in Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,681 Views
13 Pages

Nonlinear Robust Control of a New Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Saddam Hocine Derrouaoui,
  • Yasser Bouzid and
  • Mohamed Guiatni

In this paper, a nonlinear robust Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Controller (FTSMC) is designed to control and stabilize a new reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in the presence of uncertain and variable parameters. The studied UAV is an over-a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation and Control of UAVs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,486 Views
20 Pages

Frequency Criterion for the Existence of Sliding Processes in Control Systems with an Arbitrary Variable Structure

  • Vladimir Kodkin,
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsova,
  • Alexander Anikin and
  • Alexander A. Baldenkov

14 March 2024

The article proposes a criterion for the existence of sliding processes according to the frequency characteristics of the control device and the control object. It is shown that the conditions for the existence of slip are equivalent to the condition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling of Engineering and Socio-Economic Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
219 Views
18 Pages

An oblique wing aircraft can continuously vary its wing sweep angle, making it attractive for high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay missions that require stable attitude, altitude, and speed for antenna pointing and air-to-ground link con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technologies for Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,945 Views
18 Pages

Through an analysis of the kinematics and dynamics relations between the target positioning of manipulator joint angles of an apple-picking robot, the sliding-mode control (SMC) method is introduced into robot servo control according to the character...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Servoing in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,321 Views
16 Pages

7 July 2022

For the problem of the system state variable taking a long time to reach the sliding mode surface and the chattering frequency being high in the sliding mode surface, a sliding mode control method based on the adaptive reaching law is proposed, the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Mechatronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
26 Pages

To improve the continuous chordwise bending performance of morphing wings, this study proposes a rigid–flexible coupled wing rib structure and its control strategy. Initially, the optimal rigid–flexible hybrid configuration was optimized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Engineering Materials and Structural Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,206 Views
13 Pages

Sliding-Mode Control of Linear Induction Motor Based on Exponential Reaching Law

  • Shuhang Ma,
  • Jinghong Zhao,
  • Yiyong Xiong,
  • Hanming Wang and
  • Xing Yao

As a strongly coupled, multivariable, high-order nonlinear, time-varying complex system, a linear induction motor is susceptible to outside disturbances and mismatched parameters. Because of its straightforward control mechanism and fixed PI value, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,193 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2020

We present a practical adaptive sliding-mode control approach, namely, the strong and stable adaptive sliding-mode control (SS-ASMC), in this paper. There is a significant effort towards addressing the technical challenges associated with the switchi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
607 Views
18 Pages

The control design of three-phase AC/DC converters is particularly challenging, as their dynamic behavior is governed by complex nonlinear interactions and strong coupling among system variables, conventional Proportional–Integral (PI) controll...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics Controllers for Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
748 Views
20 Pages

5 April 2026

Microinjection is one of the most established and effective techniques for introducing foreign substances into cells. However, issues such as cumbersome procedures, low success rates, and poor repeatability in manual cell microinjection have seriousl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent and Precision Control for Mechatronic/Electro-Hydraulic Systems—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
8,717 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2017

In this paper, an optimal control strategy for a four-wheel-independently-actuated electric vehicle (FWIA EV) is proposed to improve vehicle dynamics stability and handling performance. The proposed scheme has a hierarchical structure composed of an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,094 Views
26 Pages

Adaptive Sliding-Mode Controller for a Zeta Converter to Provide High-Frequency Transients in Battery Applications

  • Andrés Tobón,
  • Carlos Andrés Ramos-Paja,
  • Martha Lucía Orozco-Gutíerrez,
  • Andrés Julián Saavedra-Montes and
  • Sergio Ignacio Serna-Garcés

21 July 2024

Hybrid energy storage systems significantly impact the renewable energy sector due to their role in enhancing grid stability and managing its variability. However, implementing these systems requires advanced control strategies to ensure correct oper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Intelligent Modeling and Optimization Algorithms for Industrial Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,531 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2025

Unknown variables in the environment, such as wind disturbance during a flight, affect the accurate trajectory of multi-rotor UAVs. This study focuses on the intelligent supervisory neurocontrol of trajectory tracking for a nonplanar twelve-rotor UAV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control and Robotic Technologies in Path Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
22 Pages

Adaptive Coordinated Trajectory Tracking and Yaw Stability Control for 4WID Electric Vehicles

  • Gang Liu,
  • Jiashuai Fang,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Jiashuai Xue and
  • Jiaxu Zhao

Achieving simultaneous trajectory accuracy and dynamic stability is challenging for four-wheel independent drive (4WID) electric vehicles under near-limit conditions. To effectively resolve this internal control conflict, this paper proposes a novel...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Control and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,559 Views
31 Pages

25 October 2024

This paper studies aeroelastic control for a two-dimensional airfoil–flap system with unknown gust disturbances and model uncertainties. Open loop limit cycle oscillation (LCO) happens at the post-flutter speed. The structural stiffness and qua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Innovations in Aircraft Flight Control)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,870 Views
18 Pages

Finite-Time Mass Estimation Using ℋ and Sliding Mode Control for a Multicopter

  • Carlos Augusto Arellano-Muro,
  • Guillermo Luis Osuna-González and
  • Riccardo Cespi

3 October 2024

Nonlinear control theory applied to unmanned aeronautical vehicles is an engineering topic that has received higher and higher popularity during the last decade. Model-based control approaches have shown increased performance in flight control accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,663 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2020

Due to the narrow row spacing of corn, the lack of light in the field caused by the blocking of branches, leaves and weeds in the middle and late stages of corn growth, it is generally difficult for machinery to move between rows and also impossible...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,858 Views
8 Pages

1 December 2003

In this study, the Sliding Mode Control theory of the Variable Structure System has been applied to the speed control of a de motor. The dynamic performance of the sliding mode speed control system has been studied against system parameter variations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,402 Views
16 Pages

9 January 2023

In order to solve the excitation problem of elevator traction permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), a new high-order sliding mode flux observer based on a hybrid reaching rate is proposed under the background of industrial engineering to detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Industrial Engineering With the Application of Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,226 Views
23 Pages

Sensorless HSPMSM Control of an Improved SMC and EKF Based on Immune PSO

  • Keqilao Meng,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Zhanqiang Zhang,
  • Huijuan Wu,
  • Haining Feng and
  • Taifeng Kang

16 November 2023

Here, for controlling a high-speed flywheel permanent magnet synchronous motor (HSPMSM), a position sensorless control method for estimation of motor rotor position and speed is proposed to address the problems faced by mechanical position sensors of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,548 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
850 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2025

Magnetically levitated artificial hearts impose stringent requirements on the blood-pump motor: zero friction, minimal heat generation and full biocompatibility. Traditional mechanical-bearing motors and permanent-magnet bearingless motors fail to sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,969 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2022

The underlying circuit control is a key problem of the hybrid energy-storage system (HESS) in electric vehicles (EV). In this paper, a composite non-linear control strategy (CNC) is proposed for the accurate tracking current/voltage of the fully-acti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power System Modeling and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,883 Views
20 Pages

5 October 2021

It is difficult to model and determine the parameters of the steer-by-wire (SBW) system accurately, and the perturbation is variable with complex and changeable tire–road conditions. In order to improve the control performance of the vehicle SBW syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,411 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)

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