“…The problem of interest in the present case is to generate a second-order sliding mode on a chosen sliding surface s(t). In the literature, some different sliding functions were used in the derivation of sliding mode controllers such as integral operation sliding surface [30,40], SMC + I [10], integral sliding surface [41][42][43][44], PID surface with two independent gain parameters [45]. The PID sliding surface with constant coefficients can be introduced as: (19) where k p , k i and k d are the independent positive constants denoting proportional, integral and derivative gains, respectively, k p , k i , k d ∈ + , β is also a positive constant, β ∈ + , that contributes in the damping of s(t), determining the rate of decay for s(t) (after the sliding mode is enforced).…”