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A servomechanism is a system with the objective of to controlling the position or velocity of a mechanical device. In many servomechanisms, one of the major performance measures is tracking the reference input in the shortest time possible. In practice, due to reasons such as modeling error and existence of disturbances, time-optimal control strategy, which is obtained using the classical calculus of variations methods, leads to the undesirable chattering phenomenon. The Proximate Time-Optimal Servomechanism control method is among the practical approaches proposed to obtain responses arbitrarily close to time-optimal, and at the same time avoid chattering. This methodology has found...