“…1,2 To this end, designing a controller to provide the desired performance for the considered system is a very essential and challenging task. On this basis, the research on different types of nonlinear control methods has been paid much attention in the past several decades, such as backstepping method, [3][4][5] adaptive technique, [6][7][8] ∞ method, 9,10 fuzzy control, 11,12 and sliding mode control (SMC). [13][14][15] Among these nonlinear control methods, SMC has been regarded as one of the most effective approaches to handle the nonlinear uncertain systems because it exhibits the good properties on robustness against the uncertainties and simplicity in implementation.…”