“…This problem will induce the decrease or zero of resultant force generated by the ERs, and further leads to the weakening or even disappearance of the separation ability of the machinery. Thus, to address the problems above, some measures are proposed to increase the excitation force of the system by adjusting the phase differences (PDs) among the ERs to zero (i.e., in-phase synchronization state), such as bonding multiple ERs in gear shafts (Wen et al, 2009), connecting multiple rotors by coupling unit or torsion spring (Du et al, 2020;Hou et al, 2020), and applying self-synchronization principle (Chen et al, 2016;Hou et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2020Zhang et al, , 2021Zhao et al, 2010). Although the in-phase synchronization of multiple ERs is effectively acquired by aforementioned measure, the structure and strength of vibration screen become more complicated and weaker when suffering from the large load, and the large size of the vibration screen is inconvenient to use in narrow work space.…”