Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains
Rodrigo Aldana-López, Richard Seeber, Hernan Haimovich, David Gómez-Gutiérrez
备注：
This is a preprint of the chapter: "Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains", published in Sliding-Mode Control and Variable-Structure Systems, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37089-2_3
发表信息：
Book Chapter "Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains", publised in Sliding-Mode Control and Variable-Structure Systems, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
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