Global Adaptive Finite-Time Stabilization of Uncertain Time-Varying p-Normal Nonlinear Systems Without Homogeneous Growth Nonlinearity Restriction

The problem of global finite-time stabilization for p-normal nonlinear systems subject to uncertain time-varying control and vanishing nonlinear uncertainties without homogeneous growth restriction is investigated in this paper. By virtue of the technique of homogeneous domination, a new dual-layer adaptive approach is presented to address the uncertainties and nonlinearities of the system. For one layer of the adaptive mechanism, a nonlinear adaptive parameter estimator is proposed to reconstruct the upper bounds of the unknown uncertainties. For the other, an explicit construction approach of a new adaptive dynamic gain mechanism is presented for the first time to cope with the uncertain time-varying control coefficients of the p-normal nonlinear systems. It is shown that the global boundedness of the systems under consideration is guaranteed by the presented approach, and in addition the time taken to converge to the equilibrium is rendered to be finite time.