“…A substantial amount of work on nonlinear adaptive and Sliding Mode Control (SMC) methods has been reported in the literature in relation to friction rejection. The reader is indicatively referred to [28,29,30,31,32,33], as well as to [34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41]. Although the powerful robustness properties of these controller families have been extensively analysed, their performance and applicability to machine tool control had not been adequately assessed, especially in comparison to the conventional P-PI cascades.…”