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This paper is concerned with a novel composite controller for an underactuated two-wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle with an unstable suspension subject to nonholonomic constraint. The presented composite controller is consisted with an adaptive sliding mode technique to construct an additional disturbance-like signal, and particularly a direct fuzzy controller to approximate the optimal velocity...