The simplicity, transparency, reliability, high efficiency and robust nature of PID controllers
are some of the reasons for their high popularity and acceptance for control in process …

To treat the stochastic wind nature, it is required to attain all available power from the wind
energy conversion system (WECS). Therefore, several maximum power point tracking …

A tuning procedure for the model-free control paradigm introduced in Fliess and Join (2013)
is proposed. This controller requires an estimate of the system dynamics usually obtained …

Steerable needles are desired for many applications within the medical field. One such
application is high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy. In this paper, an adaptive control system …

Magnetic levitation system is very popular experimental hardware in control laboratory for
position control of the steel ball. The presence of high nonlinearity and parameter …

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In DC motor drives, device aging and environmental factors can degrade the performance of
the control system and make it difficult to redesign controller parameters in real time. In this …

Magnetic levitation systems find their applications in many systems and are very have
practical importance. Because of their practical applications such systems are gaining much …

This paper proposes a method for direct torque control of Brushless DC (BLDC) motors.
Evaluating the trapezium of back-EMF is needed, and is done via a sliding mode observer …

This paper presents a model reference adaptive PID controller for controlling a novel
compliant flexures-based XY micro-positioning stage driven by electromagnetic actuators …