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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JERA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Electronic Research and Application</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2208-3502</issn><eissn>2208-3510</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/jera.v9i3.10618</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Global Terminal Switching Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulators Based on Entire Fixed-Time Disturbance Observer</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/JERA/9/3/10.26689/jera.v9i3.10618</url><author>ZhangFengning</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>3</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2025-05-29</published-time></date></history><abstract>This paper presents an entire fixed-time disturbance observer-based global terminal switching sliding mode control of robot manipulators, which has inner and external uncertainties. The entire fixed-time disturbance observer-based global terminal switching sliding mode control has the global finite-time reaching characteristic, the property that system convergence time can be prescribed, and the global robustness to uncertainties, with the entire fixed-time disturbance observer that accurately estimates uncertainties after a fixed time, despite the initial state. The joints of the control system can arrive at the prescribed joint angular position at the predefined joint angular speed at the prescribed time.</abstract><keywords/></article-meta></front><body/><back><ref-list><ref id="B1" content-type="article"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Zhang F, 2017, High-speed Nonsingular Terminal Switched Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulators. IEEE-CAA J. Autom Sinica, 4(4): 775–781.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B2" content-type="article"><label>2</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Deaecto GS, Souza M, Geromel JC, 2015, Discrete-time Switched Linear Systems State Feedback Design with Application to Networked Control. IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 60(3): 877–881.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B3" content-type="article"><label>3</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Feng Y, Han FL, Yu XH, 2014, Chattering-free Full-order Sliding Mode Control. Automatica, 50(4): 1310–1314.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B4" content-type="article"><label>4</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Feng Y, Yu XH, Man ZH, 2002, Non-singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Rigid Manipulators. Automatica, 38(12): 2159–2167.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B5" content-type="article"><label>5</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Bartoszewicz A, 1996, Time-varying Sliding Modes for Second-order Systems. IEE Proceedings-Control Theory and Applications, 143(5): 455–462.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B6" content-type="article"><label>6</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Geng J, Wang YF, 2016, A Finite-time Sliding-mode Controller Design for Convergence at a Desired Time and Global Robust Control. Proceedings of the 35th Chinese Control Conference, Chengdu, China, 550–555.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B7" content-type="article"><label>7</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Hung JY, Gao WB, Hung JC, 1993, Variable Structure Control: A Survey. IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 40(1): 2–22.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B8" content-type="article"><label>8</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Vahidi-Moghaddam A, Rajaei A, Ayati M, et al., 2020, Adaptive Prescribed-time Disturbance Observer Using Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control: Extended Kalman Filter and Particle Swarm Optimization. IET Control Theory and Applications, 14(19): 3301–3311.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B9" content-type="article"><label>9</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Eskandari B, Yusefpour A, Ayati M, et al., 2020, Finite-time Disturbance-observer-based Integral Terminal Sliding Mode Controller for Three-phase Synchronous Rectifier. IEEE Access, 8: 152116–152130.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
