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This very important and useful paper presents a new algorithm for closed-loop composite control of a singularly perturbed nonlinear system with respect to performance criteria using the successive Galerkin approximation (SGA). The singularly perturbed nonlinear system is decomposed into two subsystems of a slow-time scale and a fast-time scale by the singular perturbation theory, and two optimal control laws are obtained for each subsystem using the SGA method. The composite control law that consists of two optimal control laws for each subsystem is designed. One of the purposes of this paper is to design a closed-loop composite control law for the singalarly perturbed nonlinear systems via the SGA method. The other is to reduce the computational complexity when the SGA method is applied to high order systems. Main result: The presented simulation results of singularly perturbed nonlinear systems show that the performance trajectories of the proposed algorithm are better than those of the full order SGA method. Also, they show that the proposed algorithm is more effective than with the full order SGA method.