This paper studies adaptive control of switched nonlinearly parameterized cascade systems. No solvability of the adaptive control problem for subsystems is required. By exploiting the multiple Lyapunov functions method and the parameter separation technique and the tool of adding a power integrator, we develop a new switched adaptive control approach for the explicit construction of adaptive controllers of subsystems and a proper switching law that solves the adaptive stabilization problem. A key feature of the proposed adaptive controllers is its switched property, namely, each subsystem has its individual update law. A two-inverted pendulum as a practical example is also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.On the other hand, uncertainties extensively exist in real world systems. For example, such uncertainties often appear in control systems such as those in electrical, friction dynamics, dynamics of magnetic bearing, mechanical, chemical, aeronautical, and biomedical engineering [19][20][21][22]. Adaptive control is an effective methodology, which provides adaptation mechanisms to adjust controllers for systems with parametric, structural, and environmental uncertainties to achieve desired system performance [23][24][25]. For about two decades, hence, adaptive control of non-switched nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty has been one of the most active subjects in the field of nonlinear control [26,27]. In particular, adaptive control has proven its great capability in compensating for non-switched nonlinearly parameterized systems involving inherent nonlinearity on the basic of a parameter separation technique [28].For switched systems, adaptive control was not studied until recently focusing on switched linear systems [29-32] and piecewise affine systems [33,34]. For switched nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty, however, few results on adaptive control have appeared by now. In [35], an adaptive neural networks (NN) control scheme for strict-feedback switched nonlinear systems is proposed. By using the CLF method and backstepping, adaptive stabilization for strict-feedback switched nonlinear systems under arbitrary switchings is achieved [36]. On the basis of the MLFs technique, an adaptive disturbance rejection problem for switched nonlinear systems in strictfeedback form with unknown exosystem is studied in [37]. Tamba and Leksono and Long and Zhao [36,37] present some effective methods of the adaptive control problem for switched nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form. It should be observed that the literature mentioned earlier has focused on adaptive control of switched nonlinear systems with linear parameterization, and a common update law is used to estimate all the vector parameters in different subsystems. Most switched nonlinear systems in practice, however, do not possess linear parameterization and a common update law for all subsystems. In addition, nonlinear parameterization can be found in various practical control systems such as machine...