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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL AND SIGNAL PROCESSING Int. J. Adapt. Control Signal Process. 2006; 20:249–250 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/acs.907 Call for Papers Special Issue on ‘Intelligent Control and its Applications to Hard Disk Drives’ International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth of hard disk storage capacity while the cost and physical size of a hard disk drive (HDD) continue to shrink. The areal data density of HDDs has increased from 1 GB/in 2 in 1996 to 100 GB/in 2 in 2006. The current data track pitch of HDDs is less than 10 min and will be decreased at the rate of 10–20% every year. All these trends lead to the need for consistently improved tracking accuracy of servo positioning systems. The great challenges of ultra-accurate HDD control include attenuating disturbances due to windage and disc flutters, compensating nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, pivot friction and hysteresis, and handling mechanical bias and resonances whose dynamics can change with temperature and time. For HDD mobile applications, high robustness is required for servo systems to handle the unexpected external shock and vibration. Recently, micro-actuators have been used in the high-end HDDs to achieve high bandwidth, fast seeking, and improved disturbance rejection. In the past decades, intelligent control has been one of the most active research areas of control theory, and becomes a powerful tool in solving HDD control problems. This special issue aims at providing a forum for control researchers and engineers to report the latest developments and trends in intelligent control for HDD. Topics of coverage The topics of interest include, but not limited to the following control techniques in HDD applications: * Self-tuning and adaptive control * Iterative learning control (ILC) and repetitive control (RC) * Adaptive feedforward control * Neural networks and fuzzy logic * Sliding mode control (SMC) and variable structure control (VSC) * Modelling and compensation of actuator nonlinearities * Dual-stage micro-actuator control * Shock and vibration control * Multi-rate control * Optimal seek control Submission Prospective authors are requested to submit their manuscript online to http://www3.inters- cience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/4508 and to follow the instructions under ‘For Authors’. When Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL AND SIGNAL PROCESSINGInt. J. Adapt. Control Signal Process. 2006; 20:249–250Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/acs.907
Call for Papers
Special Issue on ‘Intelligent Control and its Applicationsto Hard Disk Drives’
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth of hard disk storage capacity while the costand physical size of a hard disk drive (HDD) continue to shrink. The areal data density ofHDDs has increased from 1GB/in2 in 1996 to 100GB/in2 in 2006. The current data track pitchof HDDs is less than 10 min and will be decreased at the rate of 10–20% every year. All thesetrends lead to the need for consistently improved tracking accuracy of servo positioning systems.
The great challenges of ultra-accurate HDD control include attenuating disturbances due towindage and disc flutters, compensating nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, pivot frictionand hysteresis, and handling mechanical bias and resonances whose dynamics can change withtemperature and time. For HDD mobile applications, high robustness is required for servosystems to handle the unexpected external shock and vibration. Recently, micro-actuators havebeen used in the high-end HDDs to achieve high bandwidth, fast seeking, and improveddisturbance rejection. In the past decades, intelligent control has been one of the most activeresearch areas of control theory, and becomes a powerful tool in solving HDD controlproblems. This special issue aims at providing a forum for control researchers and engineers toreport the latest developments and trends in intelligent control for HDD.
Topics of coverageThe topics of interest include, but not limited to the following control techniques in HDDapplications:
* Self-tuning and adaptive control* Iterative learning control (ILC) and repetitive control (RC)* Adaptive feedforward control* Neural networks and fuzzy logic* Sliding mode control (SMC) and variable structure control (VSC)* Modelling and compensation of actuator nonlinearities* Dual-stage micro-actuator control* Shock and vibration control* Multi-rate control* Optimal seek control
SubmissionProspective authors are requested to submit their manuscript online to http://www3.inters-cience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/4508 and to follow the instructions under ‘For Authors’. When
Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
submitting your article for this Special Issue, make sure that you have selected the correct articlecode in the online submission system: Special Issue Article AHDD2007.
All papers will be reviewed following the standard procedures of the journal. The acceptancenotification of papers will be in January 2007. The publication of the Special Issue is tentativelyscheduled for October 2007.
The paper submission deadline: 1st October 2006
Guest EditorsTao Zhang
Seagate Technology, U.S.A., E-mail: [email protected]
Shuzhi Sam Ge
The National University of Singapore, Singapore, E-mail: [email protected]
F. L. Lewis
The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, U.S.A., E-mail: [email protected]
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Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Int. J. Adapt. Control Signal Process. 2006; 20:249–250
DOI: 10.1002/acs
