Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

Abstract: Although the literature on control of overhead crane systems is extensive and relatively mature, there is still a need to develop strategies that can simultaneously handle factors such as ...

Abstract: For a class of nonlinear systems with disturbances, a new fixed time nonsingular sliding mode control (SMC) method is proposed in this paper. A new fixed time stability lemma is proposed ...