Advances in Smart Materials-Based Actuators
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1057
Special Issue Editors
Interests: modeling and control for micro/nano devices and systems; nonlinear control theory; navigation and control of robot.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart material-based actuators possess the advantages of high precision, high stability, and high reliability, and are thus widely employed in the field of advanced equipment manufacturing. Smart material-based actuators, such as piezoelectric actuators, shape memory alloy-based actuators, and dielectric elastomer actuators, are facilitating the development of robotics, bio-operation devices, and other fields. With the aim of enabling these actuators to be effective, new challenges are presented to the researchers; these include creating an actuator design that is applicable to multi-application scenarios (ultra-precision resolution, large stroke, etc.); establishing modes to describe actuator characteristics; and designing intelligent control methods to achieve the high-quality control performance of smart material actuators, among others.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect theoretical results related to actuator fabrication, modeling and control, as well as experimental studies related to their practical applications.
Papers are welcome on topics that are related, but not limited to, the following:
- Motion planning;
- State estimation;
- Hysteresis system;
- Neural network;
- Parameter estimation;
- Robust control;
- Adaptive control;
- Iterative learning control;
- Data-driven control;
- Actuator dynamics and control;
- Innovative robotic actuation systems;
- Underactuated robots;
- Aerial robots;
- Collaborative robots;
- Mobile robots.
Prof. Dr. Miaolei Zhou
Dr. Yewei Yu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- hysteresis system
- neural network
- parameter estimation
- robust control
- adaptive control
- iterative learning control
- data-driven control
- actuator dynamics and control
- innovative robotic actuation systems
