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This article is devoted to the global output‐feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems with unknown control directions and unmeasured states dependent growth whose rate is an unknown arbitrary function of output. In view of limited capability of continuous feedback in compensating system uncertainties and nonlinearities, a novel switching adaptive scheme is proposed. The scheme involves a logic‐based switching mechanism, based on which, a proper controller is selected (from a family of candidate controllers) to act on the system during its execution interval. The main differences between the proposed scheme and those in the related works are as follows. First, the set of candidate controllers is determined online, rather than specified in advance, which provides foundations for compensating arbitrary function‐of‐output growth rate. Second, an iterative function composed of system memory signals is introduced into the switching mechanism, aiming to evaluate the differences between the system states and observe states. Finally, when switching stops, only by introducing an extra transformation and adopting elaborate analysis, can the boundedness of the closed‐loop system signals be obtained, rather than those in the related works where the boundedness can be naturally established once switching stops. The constructed switching adaptive controller guarantees that all the signals of the resulting closed‐loop system are bounded and ultimately converge to zero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to the global output-feedback stabilisation for a class of nonlinear systems with inherent nonlinearities and coarse disturbance. Remarkably, the disturbance may be non-periodic, non-differentiable and/or of unknown magnitude, and hence some critical requirements on the disturbance in the existing related literature are successfully removed. Recognising that the strategies of disturbance compensation, such as internal model principle, sliding mode control method, learning method and active disturbance rejection control method, are quite hard or even impossible to apply, a time-varying design scheme is developed in the paper. Moreover, the serious unknowns and time-variations reflected in the growth rate of the system are also dealt with by the proposed scheme. By designing a time-varying output-feedback controller, all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are globally bounded, and the original system state and the observer state ultimately converge to zero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the global stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown powers, unknown control directions, and unknown nonlinearities. Mainly due to the presence of the unknown powers which have not known upper bound, no existing methods are applicable to the control problem to be solved. In this paper, to compensate the serious system uncertainties and particularly to overcome the major obstruction from unknown powers, we appeal to the mechanism of switching adaptive feedback. By flexibly combining the domination and the method of adding a power integrator, we propose a new adaptive controller design, whose design parameters are tuned online based on a switching logic. The designed controller will become operative as long as finite switchings happen and will not lead to Zeno phenomenon, and can guarantee the global boundedness as well as ultimate convergence of the resulting closed-loop system. Two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed design scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]