Prescribed-Time Stabilization for a Class of Switched Nonholonomic Systems

In this paper, the problem of prescribed-time stabilization (PTS) is studied for a class of nonholonomic systems (NSs) with switched chain structures. By suitably introducing the time-varying function into the virtual (actual) controllers, a non-scaling transformation design scheme for state feedback is developed, which forces the states of the closed-loop system (CLS) to zero in any prescribed finite time. Finally, simulation results are given to confirm the efficacy of the proposed method.