The Tracking Control of the Variable-Order Fractional Differential Systems by Time-Varying Sliding-Mode Control Approach

This paper is concerned with the problem of tracking control for a class of variable-order fractional uncertain system. In order to realize the global robustness of systems, two types of controllers are designed by the global sliding-mode control method. The first one is based on a full-order global sliding-mode surface with variable-order fractional type, and the control law is continuous, which is free of chattering. The other one is a novel time-varying control law, which drives the error signals to stay on the proposed reduced-order sliding-mode surface and then converges to the origin. The stability of the controllers proposed is proved by the use of the variable-order fractional type Lyapunov stability theorem and the numerical simulation is given to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.