“…Variable Structure Model Reference Adaptive Control (VS-MRAC) has been widely investigated and developed in both theoretical aspects and real world applications over the past few decades (Fernandes et al, 2010; Gaeta and Montanaro, 2014; Han et al, 2007; Lee and Singh, 2012; Oliveira et al, 2007; Queiroz et al, 2010; Saedodin et al, 2010; Teixeira et al, 2013; Trajkov et al, 2008; Xu and Yan, 2008; Demetriou, 2002; Yan, 2000). It consists of combining two known approaches, namely, variable structure control (Hsu and Costa, 1989; Sabanovic et al, 2004; Nunes, 2006), known for its robustness against unmodelled dynamics, and the model reference adaptive control (Ioannou and Sun, 1996; Tao, 2003), known for its tracking capability.…”