Asynchronous Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control for Networked Stochastic Unmanned Surface Vehicles with Multiple Types of Actuator Faults by Ai-Min Wang, Jian-Ning Li, Xiao-Bin Xu

“…This paper aims to design an asynchronous adaptive fault-tolerant controller for the networked stochastic unmanned surface vehicles (NSUSVs) subject to multiple types of actuator faults and external disturbance. The partial fault and bias fault of the actuator are taken into consideration simultaneously. …”
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A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Control for Nonlinear Active Suspension Systems Subjected to Actuator Faults and Road Disturbances by Hui Pang, Xue Liu, Yuting Shang, Rui Yao

“…This paper proposes a hybrid fault-tolerant control strategy for nonlinear active suspension subjected to actuator faults and road disturbances. First, an augmented closed-loop system model is established for the nonlinear active suspension system with the actuator faults and road disturbances. …”
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Adaptive Fixed-Time Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Attitude Tracking Control for Spacecraft with Actuator Saturations and Faults by Zhiguo Han, Minghao Wang, Xunliang Yan, Hang Qian

“…This paper focuses on the potential actuator failures of spacecraft in practical engineering applications. …”
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Experimental Approach to Active Mounts Using Electromagnetic Actuator and Rubber with Consideration of Shock Resistance for Naval Shipboard Equipment by Yun-ho Shin, Seok-jun Moon, Woo-jin Jung, Soo-ryong Bae

“…In this paper, an active mount combined with a passive rubber mount and an electromagnetic actuator is proposed and examined for use in naval shipboard equipment. …”
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Designing the Adaptive Tracking Controller for Uncertain Fully Actuated Dynamical Systems with Additive Disturbances Based on Sliding Mode by Chi Nguyen Van

“…This paper addresses the problem of adaptive tracking control for uncertain fully actuated dynamical systems with additive disturbance (FDSA) based on the sliding mode. …”
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Modeling and robust control of a parallel robotic mechanism driven by linear actuators based on shape memory alloys by Alejandro Guarneros-Sandoval, Mariana Ballesteros, Rita Q. Fuentes-Aguilar, Isaac Chairez

“…This study describes the development of a parallel robotic mechanism composed of shape memory alloys (SMA) agonist-antagonist actuators, highlighting the adaptability of the individual actuators for specific uses with slight structural modifications. …”
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A Multilayer Feed Forward Small-World Neural Network Controller and Its Application on Electrohydraulic Actuation System by Xiaohu Li, Feng Xu, Jinhua Zhang, Sunan Wang

“…Besides the good performance of the new controller in tracking square wave signals, which is demonstrated by the experiment results of direct drive electro-hydraulic actuation position control system, it works well on anti-interference performance.…”
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Optimal Asynchronous Guaranteed Cost Control of Uncertain Markov Jump Systems With Actuator Saturation and Nonideal Transition Probabilities by Jiazheng Liu, Yang Yang, Yaru Song

“…This paper investigates the problem of dynamic event-triggered asynchronous guaranteed cost control for uncertain Markov jump systems with actuator saturation and nonideal transition probabilities. …”
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Envelope-Based Variable-Gain Control Strategy for Vibration Suppression of Solar Array Using Reaction Wheel Actuator by Song Wu, Guoan Tang, Bifa Chen

“…The governing equation of motion of the solar array actuated by a RW actuator is deduced with the state space representation. …”
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Adaptive Neural Control Approach for Switched Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems With Actuator Faults and Input Dead Zone by Ymnah Alruwaily, Mohamed Kharrat

“…The actuator faults considered include loss-of-effectiveness and bias faults, which are unknown but bounded. …”
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Independent Modal Variable Structure Fuzzy Active Vibration Control of Cylindrical Thin Shells Laminated with Photostrictive Actuators by R.B. He, S.J. Zheng, H.T. Wang

“…Finally, two case studies are carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed actuator configuration and the control scheme. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed actuator configuration is effective in shell actuation and control. …”
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Actuator Fault Diagnosis in a Boeing 747 Model via Adaptive Modified Two-Stage Kalman Filter by Fikret Caliskan, Youmin Zhang, N. Eva Wu, Jong-Yeob Shin

“…Control effectiveness factors and stuck magnitudes are used to quantify faults entering control systems through actuators. Pseudorandom excitation inputs are used to help distinguish partial loss and stuck faults. …”
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Discharge and Optical Emission Spectrum Characteristics of a Coaxial Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma-Assisted Combustion Actuator by Pengfei Liu, Liming He, Bingbing Zhao

“…A coaxial dielectric barrier discharge plasma-assisted combustion actuator (DBD-PACA) system was set up to study its discharge and optical emission spectrum (OES) characteristics in space in this paper. …”
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Active Vibration Control of an Axially Translating Robot Arm with Rotating-Prismatic Joint Using Self-Sensing Actuator by Liang Zhao, Zhen-Dong Hu

“…Active vibration control of an axially translating robot arm with rotating-prismatic joint using self-sensing actuator is investigated. The equations of the system are derived by Lagrange’s equation with the assumed mode method. …”
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Static Output-Feedback Path-Tracking Controller Tolerant to Steering Actuator Faults for Distributed Driven Electric Vehicles by Miguel Meléndez-Useros, Fernando Viadero-Monasterio, Manuel Jiménez-Salas, María Jesús López-Boada

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Using neuroevolution for designing soft medical devices by Hugo Alcaraz-Herrera, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Igor Balaz, Andrew Adamatzky

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Finite-Time Path-Following Control of Underactuated AUVs with Actuator Limits Using Disturbance Observer-Based Backstepping Control by MohammadReza Ebrahimpour, Mihai Lungu

“…This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) robust adaptive finite-time path-following controller for underactuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), addressing model uncertainties, external disturbances, and actuator magnitude and rate saturations. A path-following error system is built in a path frame using the virtual guidance method. …”
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A Sliding Mode LCO Regulation Strategy for Dual-Parallel Underactuated UAV Systems Using Synthetic Jet Actuators by N. Ramos-Pedroza, W. MacKunis, M. Reyhanoglu

“…A sliding mode control- (SMC-) based limit cycle oscillation (LCO) regulation method is presented, which achieves asymptotic LCO suppression for UAVs using synthetic jet actuators (SJAs). With a focus on applications involving small UAVs with limited onboard computational resources, the controller is designed with a simplistic structure, requiring no adaptive laws, function approximators, or complex calculations in the control loop. …”
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Numerical Investigation of the Coupling Effects of Pulsed H₂ Jets and Nanosecond-Pulsed Actuation in Supersonic Crossflow by Keyu Li, Jiangfeng Wang

“…Comparative analysis of different actuation cases demonstrates that evenly distributed actuation within the jet cycle yields better effects. …”
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Inverse and Forward Kinematics and CAD-Based Simulation of a 5-DOF Delta-Type Parallel Robot with Actuation Redundancy by Pavel Laryushkin, Anton Antonov, Alexey Fomin, Oxana Fomina

Subjects: “…redundantly actuated parallel robot…”
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