Sliding-Mode, Variable-Structure and Discontinuous Control Systems

Igor Boikoreceived M.Sc. degree in electro-mechanical engineering, Ph.D. degree in control systems, and D.Sc. degree in control theory in 1984, 1990, and 2009, respectively. Since 2014, he has been a full professor with department of Electrical Engineering of Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. He has authored and co-authored over 250 publications, including 4 monographs. His research interests are in the areas of discontinuous control, robotics, sliding mode control, power converter control, process control, frequency-domain methods and PID controller tuning. Dr. Boiko has a substantial industry experience. He worked in the fields of process automation, instrumentation and process control for such companies as Honeywell, Syncrude Canada, Chevron Texaco, SNC Lavalin. He has important technological developments in the control of the Claus (sulfur recovery) process, deployed in a number of sulfur recovery plants, and methods of controller tuning.

Antonella Ferrarareceived the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been a full professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy. She has authored and co-authored over 450 publications, including more than 160 journal papers, 2 monographs, and 1 edited book. Her research primarily focuses on sliding mode control and other nonlinear control methodologies applied to traffic systems, intelligent vehicles, power networks, and robotics. Dr. Ferrara is currently a senior editor of theIEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systemsand an associate editor ofAutomatica. Previously, she served as a senior editor of theIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehiclesand an associate editor of theIEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology,IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Editorial.- Part I: Sliding-Mode and Discontinuous Control Theory.- Robust Exact Fixed-Time Differentiators with Filtering Capabilities.- Low-Cost Predefined-Time Convergent Super-Twisting Algorithm Control Design.- Boundary Sliding-Mode Control of a Diffusion Process under Sampling and Hold: Chattering Analysis.- An Approach to Sliding-Mode Control of Linear Systems with Periodic Coefficients.- Design of Neural-Network-Based Sliding-Mode Control and Observation: An Overview.- Output Feedback Control of Second-Order systems via Lipschitz Continuous Sliding Modes.- Adaptive Stabilization of Third-Order MIMO Systems with Uncertain Control Direction.- Bl-Homogeneous Observer for Differentially Uniformly Observable LTV Systems with a Single Output.- High-Gain Functional Observer Based Output-Feedback Sliding-Mode Control with Chattering Alleviation.- Sliding-Mode Control for Systems with Stochastic Communication Delays.- An Interconnected Discrete-Time Cascaded Semi-Implicit Differentiation.- Part II: Applications of Variable-Structure, Discontinuous and Sliding-Mode Control.- Experimental Benchmarking of Energy-Saving Sub-Optimal Sliding-Mode Control.- Experimental Comparison of Sliding-Mode Control Dedicated Discretization Approaches.- Application of Discretized Super-Twisting Control to Magnetic Resonance Imaging Patient Positioning Systems.- Singular Perturbation Strategy Based on Super-Twisting Control: Application to an EV powered by FC-SC.- PID Tuning Using Neural Network Classification of Self-Excited Oscillations.- Higher-/Second-Order Sliding-Mode Control in Nonminimum Phase Systems Using Generalized Relative Degree: Aerospace Application.- Robust Control Strategies for Floating Wind Turbines: Preliminary Experimental Results.- Propulsion-Only Control for High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft Using Sliding-Mode.- Adaptive Neural Network-Based Higher-Order Sliding-Mode Control for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines.- Model-Free Sliding-Mode Control for Hydraulic Actuators under High Load.- Adaptive Sliding-Mode Control for Tower Crane System with Boundary Layer Function..- Final Set Adjustment Using Barrier Function Adaptation of Signed-Power Controllers: An Experimental Study.- Stabilization of the Cart Pendulum Using a Homogeneous Controller.- Optimal Design of a Variable-Structure PD Controller for a Satellite Attitude Control.