Overview

Part I Basic Theory.- Regularization of Second Order Sliding Mode Control Systems.- A comprehensive Analysis of Chattering in Second Order Sliding Mode Control Systems.- Analysis of Closed-Loop Performance and Frequency-Domain Design of Compensating Filters for Sliding Mode Control Systems.- Discontinuous Homogeneous Control.- Second-order Sliding Sector for Variable Structure Control.- On Euler's Discretization of Sliding Mode Control Systems with Relative Degree Restriction.- Part II Design Methods.- Circumventing the relative degree condition in sliding mode design.- HOSM driven output tracking in the nonminimum-phase causal nonlinear systems.- High Order Sliding Mode Neurocontrol for Uncertain Nonlinear SISO Systems: Theory and Applications.- A Generalized PI Sliding Mode and PWM Control of Switched Fractional Systems.- Stabilization of nonholonomic uncertain systems via adaptive second order sliding mode control.- Output Tracking with Discrete-Time Integral Sliding Mode Control.- Flatness, Backstepping and Sliding Mode Controllers for Nonlinear Systems.- Part III Observers and Fault Detection.- Observation and identification via high-order sliding modes.- High Order Sliding Mode Observers and Differentiators-Application to Fault Diagnosis Problem.- Vehicle Parameter and States Estimation via Sliding Mode Observers.- An alternative to the measurement of five-links biped robot absolute orientation: estimation based on high order sliding mode.- Part IV Applications.- Robust Orbital Stabilization of Pendubot: Algorithm Synthesis, Experimental Verification, and Application to Swing up and Balancing Control.- Higher Order SM Block-Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unmodeled Actuators. Application to electric power systems and electrohydraulic servo-drives.- Blood Glucose Regulation Via Double Loop Higher Order Sliding Mode Control and Multiple Sampling Rate.- Contact force regulation in wire-actuated pantographs.