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Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025): Volume1, Issue 4, 2025

Nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control for nonlinear dynamical systems

Submitted
June 18, 2026
Published
2025-10-18

Abstract

To accomplish finite-time convergence of the system dynamics in the switching surface, 
terminal SMC has been established in [7–12] using finite-time differential equations [6]. The 
first-order terminal sliding-mode (TSM) method was first developed for the management of 
second-order nonlinear systems in the study [7–10]. The TSM method has been extended to 
high-order single-input and single-output (SISO) linear systems by Yu and Man [11]. To 
demonstrate the sequential convergence of the sliding variables, a hierarchical TSM structure 
has been suggested. For multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) linear systems, a generic TSM 
was then created in [12]. It should be noted that when the system states are far from 
equilibrium, TSM may not provide the same convergence performance as the traditional 
sliding-mode approach. A fast terminal sliding-mode (FTSM) idea has been used by Yu and 
Man [13, 14], ensuring quick transient