This book comprises a selection of papers that were first presented at VSS98 (5th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems) held in Sarasota, Florida. This workshop was the fifth in a series of VSS international workshops, and the first to be held in the United States. Work presented herein on theoretical developments and applications on VSS and Sliding Mode, reflects how trends have advanced beyond the original ideas that are now well documented in a number of books and research monographs. In particular, the concepts of Sliding Sector and Second Order Sliding Mode introduced in this volume, will stimulate discussions and invite further extensions. Also, the focus on Sampled Data systems represents a positive trend towards practical industrial implementations of sliding mode controllers.Content: Front Matter....Pages -Sliding sector for variable structure system....Pages 1-25On discrete variable structure control with switching sector....Pages 27-41Variable structure control of nonlinear sampled data systems by second order sliding modes....Pages 43-67On sampled data variable structure control systems....Pages 69-92Sliding mode control of systems with delayed states and controls....Pages 93-107On global stabilization of nonlinear dynamical systems....Pages 109-122A general canonical form for sliding mode control of nonlinear systems....Pages 123-142Handling stiction with variable structure control....Pages 143-166Equivalent value filters in disturbance estimation and state observation....Pages 167-179Sliding mode control of a car-like mobile robot using single-track dynamic model....Pages 181-191Park vector based sliding mode control of UPS with unbalanced and nonlinear load....Pages 193-209Dynamical adaptive sliding mode control of observable minimum-phase uncertain nonlinear systems....Pages 211-235Symbolic computing tools for nonsmooth dynamics and...

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