| CTC | Computed Torque Control |
| ACM | Adaptive Control Method |
| BsCM | Back-stepping Control Method |
| SMC | Sliding Mode Control |
| ISMC | Integral Sliding Mode Control |
| SSE | Steady-State Error |
| SOSMC | Second-Order Sliding Mode Control |
| TSMC | Terminal Sliding Mode Control |
| NTSMC | Non-singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control |
| FTSMC | Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control |
| FNTSMC | Fast Non-singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control |
| NISMS | Nonsingular Integral Sliding Mode Surfac |
| FnTCM | Finite-Time Control Method |
| FxTCM | Fixed-Time Control Method |
| DO | Disturbance Observer |
| FnTDO | Finite-Time Disturbance Observer |
| FxTDO | Fixed-Time Disturbance Observer |
| SOSMO | Second-Order Sliding Mode Observer |
| USOSMO | Uniform Second-Order Sliding Mode Observer |
| TOSMO | Third-Order Sliding Mode Observer |
| ASTwCL | Adaptive Super-twisting Control Law |
| PPC | Prescribed Performance Control |
| PCP | Prescribed Control Performance |
| PPF | Prescribed Performance Function |
| ETF | Error Transformation Function |
| DOF | Degrees of Freedom |
| RMSM | Roots-Mean-Square Method |
| RMSE | Roots-Mean-Square Error |
| SMO-CM | Sliding Mode Observer-based Control Method |
| TDE-CM | Time-Delay Estimation-based Control Method |
| DO-CM | Disturbance Observer-based Control Method |
| ADRCM | Active Disturbance Rejection Control Method |
| APPTMC | Adaptive Prescribed Performance Tracking Motion Control |