Sliding Mode Control in Electro-Mechanical Systems (Automation and Control Engineering)

This book was a really deception for me. The notation is awful and it has a serious error on the model of the inverted pendulum that consume many time of observation until to detect the primary error. The theory is not clear and the organization is a deception.

Never seen a second edition book with these many typos and errors, even cannot remember a first edition book that had so many errors!With all due respect for Professor Utkin and full acknowledgment of his undoubted expertise and tremendous contribution to sliding mode control (in fact he is one of the originators and developers of the sliding mode theory), this is not a good book IN MY OPINION. I am really sorry! :(The book is not a well-written book, and I, as a power engineer (with a specialization in power electronics and motors-drives with a decent background in control and algebra), had a very very hard time following the subject. It might be an excellent resource for someone with an advanced degree in control or math (something that I cannot comment on), but definitely not good for an engineer or researcher who wants to learn and implement sliding mode (once again, it should be emphasized that these are just my personal opinion, not facts!). In this sense, the book title seems very deceiving, and I agree with the other reviewer's comment that "this book was a really deception for me". The authors should specified the intended audience of this book maybe somewhere in the preface (this is a common practice for technical books).The notation is confusing, intuitive, and sometimes inconsistent across the book. The convention is to use normal (i..e not bold) letter for scalars and bold letters for matrices (usually upper caps) and vectors (usually lower caps). This book is not following any convention to distinguish vectors, scalars, and matrices, and the reader sometimes need to refer to several chapters back to find the description corresponding to some certain quantity.