“…Multiple motors driving systems are susceptible to parameter variations, external disturbances and unmodeled dynamics due to their nonlinearity and strong coupling. Therefore, except for the aforementioned coupled control structures, effective synchronization control algorithms are also essential to guarantee synchronization control precision and system stability, such as neural control (Wei et al, 2017), adaptive feedforward feedback (Zhao et al, 2008), fuzzy logic coupling strategy (Moore and Chen, 1995; Shao et al, 2014), H ∞ control (Chen and Chen, 2012), QFT robust control (Cheng et al, 2014), SMC, optimal control (Yan and Yang, 2016), and so on. SMC is a nonlinear robust strategy that possesses several prominent features, such as insensitivity to system parameter variations and model uncertainties, strong robustness against external disturbance, fast convergence rate, good transient performance, high control precision, and simplicity of design and implementation (Saghafinia et al, 2015; Utkin, 1993; Wu et al, 2015).…”