Control synthesis of singularly perturbed fuzzy systems

This paper considers the problem of designing stabilizing and H-infinity controllers for nonlinear singularly perturbed systems described by Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models with the consideration of the bound of singular perturbation parameter epsilon. For the synthesis problem of simultaneously designing the bound of epsilon and stabilizing or H-infinity controllers, linear matrix inequalities (LMI)-based methods are presented. For evaluating the upper bound of epsilon subject to stability or a prescribed H-infinity performance bound constraint for the resulting closed-loop system, sufficient conditions are developed, respectively. For the stabilizing and H-infinity control synthesis without the consideration of improving the bound of epsilon new design methods are also given in terms of solutions to a set of LMIs. Examples are given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed methods.