Guaranteed cost control for T-S fuzzy systems with time-varying delays

This paper deals with the problem of guaranteed cost control for nonlinear systems with time-varying delays which is represented by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models with time-varying delays. The derivatives of time-varying delay are not necessary to be bounded. Based on the free weighting matrix method, sufficient conditions for the existence of fuzzy guaranteed cost controller via state feedback are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A minimizing method is also proposed to search the suboptimal upper bound of the guaranteed cost function. The results are delay-dependent but contain delay-independent criteria as a special case. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and less conservativeness of our work. © 2010 South China University of Technology and Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.