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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,840 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,943 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
3 Citations
1,679 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,565 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,227 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,056 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
2,973 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,501 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,796 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,387 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,682 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,532 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,724 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,906 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,450 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,061 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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,235 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
4,864 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
6 Citations
2,407 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,950 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
982 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,701 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
50 Citations
9,182 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,015 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,109 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,478 Views
19 Pages

16 February 2022

This paper investigates the sensor fault detection and fault-tolerant control (FTC) technology of a variable-structure hypersonic flight vehicle (HFV). First, an HFV nonlinear system considering sensor compound faults, disturbance, and the variable s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,292 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,759 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,571 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,751 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
4 Citations
2,101 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,906 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
12 Citations
2,667 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,850 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,652 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,148 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,113 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2024

To improve the speed observation accuracy of the bearingless induction motor (BL-IM) and achieve its high-performance speed sensorless control, an improved sliding mode variable structure model reference adaptive system speed identification method ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,611 Views
14 Pages

8 May 2024

A novel variable structure controller based on sliding mode is developed for addressing the trajectory tracking challenge encountered by wheeled mobile robots. Firstly, the trajectory tracking error model under the global coordinate system is establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2025

A fast terminal sliding mode control based on a fixed-time sliding surface is proposed for a permanent magnet arc motor (PMAM), effectively improving speed response, control accuracy, and disturbance rejection capability. Due to its piecewise structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,298 Views
27 Pages

Barrier Function Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller for a Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid Involving Multiple Renewables

  • Ammar Armghan,
  • Mudasser Hassan,
  • Hammad Armghan,
  • Ming Yang,
  • Fayadh Alenezi,
  • Muhammad Kashif Azeem and
  • Naghmash Ali

17 September 2021

Conventional electricity generation methods are under the major revolution, and microgrids established on renewable energy sources are playing a vital role in this power generation transformation. This study proposes a hybrid AC/DC microgrid with a b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,346 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2022

This paper presents a control method for the problem of trajectory jitter and poor tracking performance of the end of a three-joint rigid manipulator. The control is based on a high-order particle swarm optimization algorithm with an improved sliding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,890 Views
21 Pages

Path Planning and Tracking Control of Tracked Agricultural Machinery Based on Improved A* and Fuzzy Control

  • Lixing Liu,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Xiaosa Wang,
  • Jinyan Xie,
  • Hongjie Liu,
  • Jianping Li,
  • Pengfei Wang and
  • Xin Yang

In order to improve the efficiency of agricultural machinery operations and reduce production costs, this article proposes a path planning algorithm based on the improved A* algorithm (IA*) and a tracking controller based on fuzzy sliding mode variab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,138 Views
19 Pages

26 February 2025

Different locations and types of faults affect the safe and reliable operation of DC microgrids. Therefore, this paper proposes a secondary multiple fault-tolerant control scheme for a DC microgrid based on a sliding mode observer to ensure the volta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,903 Views
20 Pages

Direct Power Control of Vienna Rectifier Based on Fractional Order Sliding Mode Control

  • Tao Wang,
  • Shenhui Chen,
  • Xin Li,
  • Jihui Zhang and
  • Jinghao Ma

Taking a Vienna rectifier as the research object, the power mathematical model based on a switching function is established according to its working principle. A sliding mode variable structure control algorithm based on the reaching law is examined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,189 Views
19 Pages

Actuator Fault Tolerant Control of Variable Cycle Engine Using Sliding Mode Control Scheme

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Tianhong Zhang,
  • Zhonglin Lin,
  • Zhiwen Zhao and
  • Xinglong Zhang

27 January 2021

This paper presents a fault tolerant control (FTC) design for the actuator faults in a variable cycle engine (VCE). Ensured by the multiple variable geometries structure of VCE, the design is realized by distributing the control effort among the unfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,710 Views
26 Pages

On the Mathematical Background of Sliding Mode-Based Friction Compensation of a Micro-Telemanipulation System

  • Péter Korondi,
  • Nándor Fink,
  • Róbert Mikuska,
  • Péter Tamás Szemes,
  • Csaba Kézi and
  • Imre Kocsis

11 October 2024

Modeling of various phenomena in engineering work is always a kind of simplification of real processes, aiming at a model where a certain level of mathematical theory and computational procedures is sufficient. If the complexity of the required theor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
490 Views
13 Pages

25 October 2025

A prescribed-performance-based sliding mode control method with feed-forward inverse compensation is proposed in this study to improve the micropositioning accuracy and convergence speed of a piezoelectric actuator (PEA). Firstly, the piezo-actuated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,667 Views
15 Pages

New Sliding Mode Control Based on Tracking Differentiator and RBF Neural Network

  • Chunyu Qu,
  • Yongzhuang Hu,
  • Ziqi Guo,
  • Fangxu Han and
  • Xiuping Wang

29 September 2022

In order to solve the problem that the control system of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is difficult to meet the high control accuracy due to the influence of non-repeated disturbances such as external disturbance, system parameter variati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,745 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...

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