“…The design of the adaptive neural controller is successfully used to overcome the design difficulties which are from the systems with unmeasured states, unknown nonlinear function and unknown dead-zone input [3,7,8,[11][12][13][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]32,37]. Thus, the study of dead-zone nonlinearities has been drawing much interest in the adaptive neural control community for a long time [10,14,15,20,21,26,28,37]. In [37], a novel adaptive neural control scheme for a class of uncertain MIMO nonlinear state time-varying delay systems with unknown nonlinear dead-zones and gain signs was presented.…”