This paper is a sequel of that published in the proceedings of Optima
2023, where the problem of stabilizing a chain of three integrators by a
piecewise continuous constrained control in the form of three nested saturators
was studied. In this work, we propose a more advanced stabilizing
control law. The new feedback control is continuous and ensures the fulfillment
of a phase constraint imposed on the third state variable. We study
global stability of the closed-loop system and set an optimization problem
of determining feedback coefficients that ensure the greatest convergence
rate near the equilibrium while preserving global asymptotic stability of
the system. We show that the loss of global stability is associated with
arising hidden attractors, which come to existence when the convergence
rate reaches a critical value depending on the control resource. A numerical
procedure for constructing hidden attractors is developed, and the
discussion is illustrated by numerical examples.