Magnetostrictive actuators play an important role in the perception of usefulness of smart
materials and devices. Their applications are potentially wider than that of piezoelectric …

Magnetic shape memory (MSM) alloys are comparatively new active materials which can be
used for several industrial applications, ranging from precise positioning systems to …

Partly motivated by nanopositioning applications in scanning probe microscopy systems, we
consider the problem of tracking periodic signals for a class of systems consisting of linear …

The paper outlines the basic features concerning the design of'embedded'control and
compensation algorithms suitable to be employed in smart sensors and actuators, for real …

A sliding mode controller (SMC) is proposed for a class of systems comprising a hysteresis
operator preceding a linear system with an all-pole transfer function. The hysteresis operator …

This paper considers a control strategy for systems affected by time-varying hysteretic
phenomena, such as those observed in magnetic shape memory alloys subject to …

We propose an adaptive servocompensator utilizing frequency estimation and slow
adaptation for systems subject to inputs of unknown frequencies. We show that the proposed …

The paper proposes a two-stage model able to describe the dynamic behavior of a
commercial magnetostrictive actuator in the frequency range of interest for fast actuation …

Applications of magnetostrictive materials in smart devices spread from micro-positioning to
active compensation of mechanical vibrations. In non-static conditions, several dynamic …

In this paper, we present conditions for the stabilization and regulation of the tracking error
for an n-dimensional minimum-phase system preceded by a Prandtl–Ishlinskii hysteresis …