journal article·2026-07

Funnel control for lower-triangular nonlinear systems with singular input-output links: Theory and experimental validation

Yufa Liu, Xiangru Cai, Hai Liu, Jie Tao, Ming Lin, Yonghua Liu, Chunyi Su, Renquan Lu

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