“…Nevertheless, the backstepping design procedure suffers from the widely recognized "explosion of complexity" problem arising from the repeated derivations of the virtual controls. [27][28][29][30] Very recently, to deal with the unmodeled dynamics and state constraints, a neural network (NN) DSC approach was proposed for a class of strict-feedback systems in the work of Zhang et al, 31 and later, this method was extended to pure-feedback systems in other work of Zhang et al 32 Xia et al 33 proposed adaptive DSC (ADSC) scheme for stochastic pure-feedback nonlinear systems with state and input unmodeled dynamics. 3 After more than 10 years of development, the DSC design framework has enjoyed widespread applications in various types of dynamical systems, ranging from linear systems, [4][5][6] to strict-/semi-strict feedback uncertain systems, 7-13 to pure-feedback or nonaffine systems, [14][15][16][17][18] to constrained systems, [19][20][21][22] and to many more complex systems such as fault-tolerant systems, 23,24 stochastic systems, 25,26 and large-scale interconnected systems.…”