“…Many significant research results have been obtained (He, Dong, & Sun, 2015;Liu, Lai, Zhang, & Philip Chen, 2015;Qiu, Liang, Dai, Cao, & Chen, 2015;Ren, Ge, Tee, & Lee, 2010;Tee, Ge, & Tay, 2009;Tee, Ren, & Ge, 2011). Backstepping approach (Ge & Wang, 2002;Kanellakipoulos, Kokotovic, & Morse, 1991;Krstic, Kanellakopoulos, & Kokotovic, 1995;Zhang, Ge, & Hang, 2000) and dynamic surface control (Swaroop, Hedrick, Yip, & Gerdes, 2000;Wang & Huang, 2005;Yip & Hedrick, 1998;Zhang, Zhu, & Yang, 2012) were used to design the controller of nonlinear systems with constraints (Guo & Wu, 2014;Kim & Yoo, 2014;Liu et al, 2015;Meng, Yang, Si, & Sun, 2015;Qiu et al, 2015;Ren et al, 2010;Tee et al, 2009. Four adaptive control schemes were developed by using barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) for strictfeedback nonlinear systems with static output constraint or timevarying output constraint or partial state constraints and known ✩ This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61573307, 61473250 and 61473249.…”