A tracking problem for a mechanical system is considered. We start with a feedback
controller that is designed without attention to disturbances, which are assumed to be …

This textbook is intended as an introduction to Continuum Mechanics at the advanced
undergraduate and beginning graduate level. The authors aimed at breaching the gap that …

The presence of friction in mechanical motion systems is a performance limiting factor as it
induces stick–slip vibrations. To appropriately describe the stiction effect of friction, we adopt …

Nanoparticle suspensions are known to offer a variety of benefits for thermal transport and
energy conversion. Of particular relevance here are the vast changes to the radiative …

Background In recent years, laparoscopic surgical robots have rapidly developed. However,
most focus on the overall robotic systems, with few summaries on the laparoscopic surgical …

For uncertain linear systems with input quantization and matched disturbances, this paper
introduces an H2 state-feedback controller, which comprises linear and nonlinear parts. The …

Modeling of friction forces has been a challenging task in mechanical engineering.
Parameterized approaches for modeling friction find it difficult to achieve satisfactory …

This article considers the robust H∞ sliding mode control problem for a class of uncertain
switched delay systems. A single sliding surface is constructed such that the reduced-order …

This paper investigates artificial neural network (ANN) based modelling and compensation
of nonlinear friction which is a major cause of performance degradation in servo …

System performance in terms of control accuracy and stability is usually negatively affected
by friction occurrences in mechanical systems. Thus, it is important to model the friction …