From the reviews: "This monograph discusses the design of switching lines (or surfaces) for sliding-mode control of systems ... . All derivations are carried out explicitly, arriving at analytical formulas and graphs, which may make the book most useful for engineers and students in the control design community who want to see the derivation behind classical control design principles." (Jan Sieber, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1192, 2010)
A principal objective of control engineering is to design control systems which are robust with respect to external disturbances and modelling uncertainty. More precisely, “Time-Varying Sliding Modes for Second and Third Order Systems” focuses on only one, but very important aspect of the sliding mode system design, i.e.