The growth in automated manufacturing since the '60s has motivated the study of the control
and motion planning of many types of mechanical systems, such as industrial manipulators …

To increase the transportation efficiency and ensure the safety of the crane system, the
trolley/bridge is required to be driven to reach different preset destinations without retuning …

This paper presents the formulation of a novel block-backstepping based control algorithm
to address the stabilization problem for a generalized nonlinear underactuated mechanical …

Underactuated mechanical systems are frequently encountered in several industrial and
real-world applications such as robotic manipulators with elastic components, aerospace …

This paper investigates a framework for the application of robust and smooth second order
sliding mode control to a class of underactuated mechanical systems for the realization of …

This paper aims to design and develop backstepping control algorithm based on an
adaptive observer for under-actuated system. Two design algorithms have been developed; …

In this paper, a new composite scheme is proposed, where the total control action is
composed of the sum of a feedback-linearization-based controller and an energy-based …

This paper is concerned with a novel composite controller for an underactuated two-
wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle with an unstable suspension subject to nonholonomic …

This paper investigates the distributed leader–follower tracking problem for a team of flexible
spacecraft over an undirected communication network with uncertain parameters subject to …

The problem of output feedback stabilization of a class of under-actuated benchmark
nonlinear systems is discussed. The proposed method utilizes an extended high gain …