Interval-Boundary-Dependent Control for Interval Type-2 T–S Fuzzy Systems

This paper introduces a state-feedback controller for interval type-2 Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems that are described as a convex combination of linear subsystems via normalized time-varying fuzzy weighting parameters, which are unknown but belong to intervals. The introduced structure employs lower and upper interval boundaries directly, rather than alternative parameters generated by the interval boundaries in the studies, which does lead to a stabilization condition of parameterized linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), associated only with the parameters and their interval boundaries. The exact relationship among the parameters and their interval boundaries can, therefore, be fully used to convert parameterized LMIs into LMIs, which provides a great feature distinguished from those in the studies. Two illustrative examples demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the derived controller. © 2018, Brazilian Society for Automatics--SBA.