“…On the basis of Lyapunov‐like conditions for ensuring dynamic systems to exhibit predefined‐time stability or predefined‐time boundedness, many predefined‐time controllers were designed for various systems, for example, nonlinear second‐order systems, 6‐8 nonholonomic systems, 9 chaotic systems, 10,11 rigid spacecrafts, 12 robotic manipulators 13,14 as well as first‐order and second‐order multi‐agent systems 15,16 . However, the predefined‐time controllers derived on the basis of Lyapunov analysis 3‐14 may provide conservative estimate of upper bounds of system convergence time, especially for high‐order systems. The real convergence time may be much smaller than the estimated upper bound.…”