“…Apart from the listed technical challenges, the main contribution of this work consists of defining a DSMC law for uncertain and possibly multi-input nonlinear systems, directly based on the nonlinear dynamics, that guarantees the satisfaction of both input and state constraints in a general form. Such a result, to the best of our knowledge, is not available in the literature, as the cited papers either deal with linear systems [8], [10], [11], [13]- [15] or linear systems approximations [9], or generate an overall control law that is not a DSMC law [12], or finally use a DSMC controller to enhance the robustness properties of a separate MPC controller [16]- [20]. Notice that, when the state constraints are defined directly on the components of the sliding variable, one could design a sliding mode controller without the need for receding-horizon approaches, so as to force the state to slide on the boundary of the admissible region (i.e., the region of the state space in which all state constraints are satisfied), whenever this boundary is reached, thus satisfying the imposed constraints (see, e.g., [24] for continuous-time SMC).…”