The control performance of the reluctance actuator maglev system is seriously affected by inherent nonlinearities (e.g. hysteresis, eddy current, flux leakage, etc.) and external disturbances. To this end, paper proposes an enhanced unknown dynamics estimator (USDE)-based sliding mode (USDE-SMC) method a novel predictive-adaptive switching (PAS) controller (USDE-SMC-PAS). First, USDE incorporat...