Digital implementation of sliding-mode control via the implicit method: A tutorial

International audienceThe objective of this article, is to provide a clear presentation of the discretization of continuous-time sliding-mode controllers, also known in the Automatic Control literature as the emulation method, when the implicit (backward) Euler scheme is used. First-order, second-order and homogeneous controllers are considered. The main theoretical results are recalled in each case, and the focus is put on the discrete-time implementation structure and on the algorithms which allow the designer to solve, at each time-step, the one-step generalized equations which are needed to compute the controllers. The article ends with some open issues