Dealing with the complexity of modern technological non-linear systems and their
disturbances is a very challenging issue. Sliding Mode Control (SMC) can deal perfectly with …

In the field of modern industrial engineering, many mechanical systems are underactuated,
exhibiting strong nonlinear characteristics and high flexibility. However, the lack of control …

This article deals with an uncertain two-link rigid–flexible manipulator with vibration
amplitude constraint, intending to achieve its position control via motion planning and …

Shipboard cranes are extensively utilized in numerous fields such as cargo transferring and
offshore engineering. The control of shipboard cranes, especially the antiswing control of …

This article investigates the trajectory tracking control problem for a family of underactuated
autonomous surface vessels under the condition of model uncertainties, actuator faults, and …

Artificial-delay control is a method in which state and input measurements collected at an
immediate past time instant (ie, artificially delayed) are used to compensate the uncertain …

The control of underactuated Euler–Lagrange systems with uncertain and switched
parameters is an important problem whose solution has many applications. The problem is …

A limited number of coupling-based works have been reported for stabilizing the overhead
crane subject to both parametric uncertainty and input saturation. Particularly, integral action …

This paper presented a high-speed and low power consumption adaptive fuzzy global
coupled nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSMC) to the position tracking …

Using state observer has attracted a notable interest of researchers in control community to
provide an on-line state estimator for control systems instead of measuring them physically …