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    Area of Science:

    • Control Systems Engineering
    • Nonlinear Dynamics
    • Robotics

    Background:

    • Tracking control for uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems is challenging due to matched and mismatched disturbances.
    • Existing methods often struggle with convergence time, control singularity, and numerical stability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a predefined-time backstepping controller for uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems.
    • To address composite disturbances and eliminate control singularity.
    • To ensure boundedness and predefined-time convergence of tracking errors.

    Main Methods:

    • Lyapunov-based predefined-time dynamic paradigm
    • Regulation function
    • Neural Networks (NNs)
    • Adding-Absolute-Value (ADV) technique to remove control singularity

    Main Results:

    • Theoretical analysis confirms boundedness of all closed-loop system signals.
    • Tracking error converges to the origin in a predefined time, independent of initial conditions.
    • Controller is continuous, nonsingular, and robust to noise, with reduced peaking errors and control magnitudes.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed controller offers precise, energy-efficient, and robust predefined-time tracking.
    • It effectively mitigates control singularity and numerical overflow issues.
    • Validated on a single-link manipulator, demonstrating superior performance.