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Velocity estimation is a core component of state estimation and sensor fusion pipelines in mobile robotics and autonomous ground systems, directly affecting navigation accuracy, control stability, and operational safety. In conventional…
Finite element models of electrical machines allow insights in electrothermal stresses which endanger the insulation system of the machine. This paper presents a thermal finite element model of a 3.7 kW squirrel-cage induction machine. The…
Resonant electromagnetic actuators have been broadly used as vibration motors for mobile devices given their ability of generating relatively fast, strong, and controllable vibration force at a given resonant frequency. Mechanism of the…
High-speed machinery is often designed to pass several $"$critical$"$ speeds, where vibration levels can be very high. To reduce vibrations, rotors usually undergo a mass balancing process, where the machine is rotated at its full speed…
Space-time methods promise more efficient time-domain simulations, in particular of electrical machines. However, most approaches require the motion to be known in advance so that it can be included in the space-time mesh. To overcome this…
We analyse hysteresis in a one-dimensional anti-ferromagnetic random field Ising model at zero-temperature. The random field is taken to have a rectangular distribution of width $2 \Delta$ centered about the origin. A uniform applied field…
Tendon-driven continuum manipulators (TDCM) are commonly used in minimally invasive surgical systems due to their long, thin, flexible structure that is compliant in narrow or tortuous environments. There exist many researches for precise…
This work presents approaches for the estimation of quantities important for the control of the momentum of a humanoid robot. In contrast to previous approaches which use simplified models such as the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model, we…
Rotation speed is a key metric for many applications, such as calibrating electric motors in a factory, monitoring a car's engine health, detecting faults in electrical appliances, and more. However, existing measurement techniques have…
We report on experiments of many small motors -- cell phone vibrators -- glued to and interacting through a resonant plate. We find that individual motors interacting with the plate demonstrate hysteresis in their steady-state frequency due…
We present and analyze methods for the kinematic and kinetostatic calibration of, typically, wrist mounted force/torque sensors in robotics. The algorithms are based on matrix factorization and require no special equipment. The only…
Accurate speed estimation in sensorless brushless DC motors is essential for high-performance control and monitoring, yet conventional model-based approaches struggle with system nonlinearities and parameter uncertainties. In this work, we…
A novel perturbation method for the stabilization of unstable intermediate states of hysteresis loop (i.e. S-shaped curve) is proposed. This method only needs output signals of the system to construct the perturbation form without…
We provide an overview of studies of hysteresis in models of magnets. We discuss the shape of the hysteresis loop, dynamical symmetry breaking, and the dependence of the area of the loop on the amplitude and frequency of the driving field.…
An excitation method for MEMS devices with planar electrodes is described. The stationary part of the device (the stator) consists of three electrode arrays arranged in the 'ABCABC' order. 'A', 'B', and 'C' carry time-independent potentials…
This article presents an approach for modelling hysteresis in piezoelectric materials, that leverages recent advancements in machine learning, particularly in sparse-regression techniques. While sparse regression has previously been used to…
A simple approach to gyro and accelerometer bias estimation is proposed. It does not involve Kalman filtering or similar formal techniques. Instead, it is based on physical intuition and exploits a duality between gimbaled and strapdown…
Alternating current (AC) electrical drive control without mechanical sensors is an active research topic. This paper studies the observability of both induction machine and synchronous machine sensorless drives. Observer-based sensorless…
Faults related to hydrodynamic bearing can imply in high maintenance costs when late-detected and even to the total shutdown of the system. Thus, techniques of early fault diagnosis have high relevance to the reliability of rotating…
Tilt-horizontal coupling in inertial sensors limits the performance of active isolation systems such as those used in gravitational wave detectors. Inertial rotation sensors can be used to subtract the tilt component from the signal…