Nonlinear Control of Mechanical and Robotic Systems
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Control Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear control; mechanical systems; robot manipulators; stability and stabilization; constrained inputs; finite-time control
Interests: robot control; nonlinear control; fuzzy and neural control
Interests: robot manipulators (regulation and tracking); visual servoing; analysis and control of dynamical systems; parameter identification; design and building of robot prototypes and mechatronics systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The automatic control of mechanical and robotic systems is an active research topic that has attracted the attention of researchers, technologists, and engineers. It is a field that has proven to be an endless source of interesting analytical and practical challenges. These have required a thorough diversification and/or refinement of problem formulations, giving rise, in turn, to advanced nonlinear control design solutions. Such advances have made the implementation of many types of mechanical and robotic systems possible, achieving important tasks that have benefitted humanity.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute recent original results on the nonlinear control of mechanical and robotic systems. Analytical and experimental results are welcome on any topic relating to important research areas in the field, such as robotics and control systems.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent original studies on the nonlinear control of mechanical and robotic systems, such as mobile, underwater flying, industrial, legged, space, or networked robots and underactuated mechanical systems, and tasks, such as manipulation, consensus, formation or teleoperation. We are also interested in advances in the design techniques and methodologies used for these types of systems, which include, but are not limited to, robust, adaptive, passivity-based, intelligent, learning, finite-time, and force control.
Dr. Arturo Zavala-Río
Prof. Dr. Victor Santibañez
Prof. Dr. Fernando Reyes-Cortés
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mechanical systems
- robot manipulators
- mobile robots
- underactuated systems
- networked robots
- finite-time control
- bilateral teleoperation
- passivity-based control
- force control
- constrained control
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