Partial Finite-Time Stabilization of Perturbed Nonlinear Systems Based on the Novel Concept of Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Method

Abstract

In this article, a new technique to design a robust controller to achieve finite-time partial stabilization for a class of nonlinear perturbed systems is proposed. Indeed the system is partially stabilized in a finite time, based on the novel concept of the nonsingular terminal sliding mode (TSM) control method. In the first step, the nonlinear dynamical system is divided into two subsystems based on their required stability properties of the system's states (where finite-time stability is only desired for the first subsystem). Then, using a partial diffeomorphism map to transform the first subsystem into the normal form, the control law is designed. Indeed, by introducing this new concept of the TSM method, robust finite-time stability of only a part of the system's state is guaranteed. Subsequently, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results are compared with the existing methods.