“…While finite-time-convergent arbitrary-order slidingmode controllers are mostly still theoretically studied (Levant, 2001(Levant, , 2003Floquet, Barbot and Perruquetti, 2003), 2-sliding controllers with finite-time convergence have already been successfully implemented for solution of real problems (Bartolini, Ferrara & Punta, 2000;Bartolini, Pisano, Punta & Usai, 2003;Levant, Pridor, Gitizadeh, Yaesh & Ben-Asher, 2000;Sira-Ramírez, 2002;Orlov, Aguilar & Cadiou, 2003;Khan, Goh & Spurgeon, 2003;Shkolnikov & Shtessel, 2002;Shkolnikov, Shtessel, Lianos, & Thies, 2000;Shtessel & Shkolnikov, 2003;Shtessel, Shkolnikov & Brown, 2004). There are only few widely used 2-sliding controllers: the sub-optimal controller (Bartolini et al, 1998), the terminal sliding mode controllers (Man, Paplinski & Wu, 1994), and the twisting controller .…”