SMC is a robust control technique that ensures the robust (insensitive) stabilization of the system against (matched) disturbance. This property holds when it is designed and implemented in continuous-time domain. On the other hand, in digital implementation of SMC the system trajectory slides in the vicinity of sliding manifold. Many techniques and design methodologies have appeared in the literature for reducing the sliding band and improving the accuracy. Nevertheless, a significant improved performance can be obtained using some novel control implementation strategy, namely event-triggering technique. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.