RETRACTED: Robust variable air speed control of a nonlinear fan system based on backstepping sliding mode control techniques

At the request of the Publisher, the following articles have been retracted.

The Advances in Mechanical Engineering Editorial Office became aware that the peer review process organised by the Guest Editors of the Special Collections Advanced Control and Analysis of Mechatronics Systems with Modelling Uncertainty and Advanced Control of Robotics and Mechatronics Systems with Nonlinearity and Modelling Uncertainty 2016 did not meet the journal’s usual rigorous standards of peer review. Due to this, all articles in these Special Collections were re-reviewed by a new set of independent referees.

Based on the feedback from the new independent referees, the following articles have been retracted as they contained technical errors in the data presented, and they did not meet the journal’s required standard of scientific validity:

Hongliang Li, Jiangwei Chu, Jialu Li, Pengfei Cui, Zhanzhong Wang (2017). Energy recovery data characteristics extraction of flywheel energy storage control system for vehicular applications. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 9(4). First Published April 18, 2017.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017696659)

Dapai Shi, Liang Chu, Jianhua Guo, Zhanzhong Wang, Ruijun Liu (2017). Energy control strategy of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle based on pattern recognition. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 9(3). First Published March 10 2017.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017695049)

Zhiyan Dong, Shun’an Liu, Yongming Yao, Linqiang Hu, Chunxue Wang (2016). Flexible performance design for the H∞ loop-shaping control based on the linear matrix inequality approach: Application to the coaxial rotor helicopter. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(8). First Published August 3, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016661088)

Cheng Liu, Guowei Cai, Deyou Yang (2016). Design nonlinear robust damping controller for static synchronous series compensator based on objective holographic feedback–H∞. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(6). First Published June 21, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016655681)

Huann-Keng Chiang, Chun-Chiang Fang, Feng-Jui Hsu (2016). Robust variable air speed control of a nonlinear fan system based on backstepping sliding mode control techniques. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(6). First Published June 2, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016651373)

Yunjiang Cheng, Xiangyang Xu, Shuhan Wang, Yang Liu (2016). Generic control flow for the four types of clutch-to-clutch shifts. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(5). First Published May 20, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016644377)

Yuanjin Yu, Zhaohua Yang (2016). A semi-physical simulation platform of attitude determination and control system for satellite. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(5). First Published May 12, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016646975)

Gang Shen, Yu Tang, Jinsong Zhao, Hao Lu, Xiang Li, Ge Li (2016). Jacobian free monotonic descent algorithm for forward kinematics of spatial parallel manipulator. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(4). First Published April 24, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016645447)

Huaxiang Cai, Yongmei Huang, Tao Tang, Qiang Wang, Junfeng Du, Tong Zhang (2016). Double speed loops control for high-precision position tracking of position-controlled actuators involving a harmonic drive reducer. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(3). First Published March 15, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016638785)

Ye-Wei Zhang, Guo-Qing Jiang, Bo Fang (2016). Suppression of panel flutter of near-space aircraft based on non-probabilistic reliability theory. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8(3). First Published March 15, 2016.

(Original DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016638806)