Yingqi Zhu

This article investigates the prescribed-time control problem for a class of nonlinear systems with disturbances. Using general backstepping and state scaling techniques to deal with high-order systems with disturbances may lead to differential explosion and complicate stability analysis. To avoid these problems, this paper proposes a prescribed-time control scheme based on a fully actuated system (FAS) approach.

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