Advances in Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control—Theory and Applications

Part I. New VSS/SMC Algorithms and Their Properties

1. Lyapunov-Based Design of Homogeneous High-Order Sliding Modes
Jaime A. Moreno

2. Robustness of Homogeneous and Homogeneizable Differential Inclusions
Emmanuel Bernuau, Denis Efimov, Wilfrid Perruquetti

3. Stochastic Sliding Mode Control and State Estimation
Alex S. Poznyak

4. Practical Stability Phase and Gain Margins Concept
Yuri Shtessel, Leonid Fridman, Antonio Rosales, Chandrasekhara Bharath Panathula

5. On Inherent Gain Margins of Sliding-Mode Control Systems
Igor Boiko

6. Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Based on the Extended Equivalent Control Concept for Disturbances with Unknown Bounds
Tiago Roux Oliveira, José Paulo V. S. Cunha, Liu Hsu

7. Indirect Adaptive Sliding-Mode Control Using the Certainty-Equivalence Principle
Alexander Barth, Markus Reichhartinger, Kai Wulff, Johann Reger, Stefan Koch, Martin Horn

Part II. The Usage of VSS/SMC Techniques for Solutions of Different Control Problems

8. Variable Structure Observers for Nonlinear Interconnected Systems
Mokhtar Mohamed, Xing-Gang Yan, Sarah K. Spurgeon, Zehui Mao

9. A Unified Lyapunov Function for Finite Time Stabilization of Continuous and Variable Structure Systems with Resets
Harshal B. Oza, Yury V. Orlov, Sarah K. Spurgeon

10. Robustification of Cooperative Consensus Algorithms in Perturbed Multi-agents Systems
Alessandro Pilloni, Alessandro Pisano, Elio Usai

11. Finite-Time Consensus for Disturbed Multi-agent Systems with Unmeasured States via Nonsingular Terminal Sliding-Mode Control
Xiangyu Wang, Shihua Li

12. Discrete Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control
Abhisek K. Behera, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

13. Fault Tolerant Control Using Integral Sliding Modes
Christopher Edwards, Halim Alwi, Mirza Tariq Hamayun

Part III. Applications of VSS/SMC to Real Time Systems

14. Speed Control of Induction Motor Servo Drives Using Terminal Sliding-Mode Controller
Yong Feng, Minghao Zhou, Fengling Han, Xinghuo Yu

15. Sliding Modes Control in Vehicle Longitudinal Dynamics Control
Antonella Ferrara, Gian Paolo Incremona

16. Sliding Mode Control of Power Converters with Switching Frequency Regulation
Víctor Repecho, Domingo Biel, Josep M. Olm, Enric Fossas

Keywords: Engineering, Control, Systems Theory, Control