Summary
We consider the global stabilization problem for a class of high‐order feedforward time‐delay nonlinear systems. The nested saturation function method is inherently improved to develop a continuous controller, without the requirements on the memory of the past input and the prior information of the time‐varying delays. The proposed controller is less conservative in terms of the level of nonlinearities whose upper bounds include high‐order, low‐order, and linear terms. The design procedures are provided based on the sign function technique, the homogeneous domination idea, and the search of Lyapunov function. Finally, a simulation example is used to demonstrate the application of the obtained theoretical results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.