This paper presents a two-part controller that uses a state variable estimator for control of a single degree of freedom rotary manipulator actuated by Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wire. A model for the SMA actuated manipulator is presented. The model includes nonlinear dynamics of the manipulator, a constitutive model of the Shape Memory Alloy, and the electrical and heat transfer behavior of SMA ...

The occurrence of catastrophic earthquakes necessitates further researches in the structure engineering for retrofitting construction structures. In this paper, the application of the active control in the structures’ seismic response has been addressed. A single degree of freedom nonlinear structure has been studied. The nonlinear dynamic of the structure is considered in which, the nonlin...

Accurate positioning of the motor requires high control performance for low-speed operation and motor’s parameter perturbation. In the AC motor vector control technology, the nonsingular higher-order terminal sliding mode observer of Insertion Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM) is put forward based on the object current and voltage values to obtain the rotor position and speed signa. Th...

this paper presents a robust fractional order controller for flexible-joint electrically driven robots under imperfect transformation of control space. the proposed approach is free from manipulator dynamics, thus free from problems associated with torque control strategy in the design and implementation. as a result, the proposed controller is simple, fast response and superior to the torque c...

Active tuned mass damper (ATMD) systems have attracted the considerable attention of researchers for protecting buildings subjected to earthquake loading. This paper presentes the development of an optimal sliding mode control (OSMC) system for a building equipped with ATMD. In the OSMC technique, a linear sliding surface is used with the slope of this surface designed such that a given (or des...

In this paper, a new approach to the super-twisting sliding mode control of uncertain systems is proposed. The idea behind this control scheme is to utilize an adaptive sliding surface function, in which the slope of the surface is updated on-line using a simple single input-single output fuzzy logic inference system so that the sliding surface is rotated in such a direction that the tracking p...

Original scientific paper A method for practical implementation of discrete-time sliding mode control technique for control of plants with stable finite zero is proposed in this paper. The method is based on a combination of different conventional and sliding mode control approaches. The control system contains a sliding mode controller, an observer, based on nominal plant model without finite ...

A robust nonlinear composite adaptive control algorithm is done for a 6-DOF quadrotor system. The system is considered to suffer from the presence of parametric uncertainty and noise signal. The under-actuated system is split to two subsystems using dynamic inversion. A sliding mode control is controlling the internal dynamics while the adaptive control is controlling the fully actuated subsyst...