“…Different control techniques have been studied to regulate the crank angular speed fluctuations introduced by the inertia of the rotor and the rotating bars in a four-bar linkage when an electric motor is Technical Editor: Monica Carvalho. used to drive the mechanism, namely, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller [15,18,22,23,27], PD [17,19], model reference adaptive control [16], fuzzy control [20], robust fuzzy control [24], PID neural network controller [21], proportional-derivative and neural adaptive control [25], various control schemes are explored (filtered proportional integral-derivative, filtered sliding mode, filtered fuzzy, and filtered genetic-based reinforcement neuro controller) [26], moving sliding mode control [28], and robust backstepping control [29]. Most of the previous papers focus on the regulation of the crank angular speed fluctuations, and only papers [18,19,22,27], the problem of variable input speed control, which is the main focus of this work, is attended.…”