Reducing the Conservatism of Stabilization for Discrete-Time Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems via a New Extended Representation Approach

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of reducing the conservatism for stabilization of discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems via a new extended representation approach. Different from previous slack variable methods, an advanced slack variable method without limitations is proposed for further making good use of available fuzzy weighting functions. Owing to the introduction of extended representations for homogenous polynomials, those strong limitations in recent literature are relaxed and thus the primary and secondary sequences of all normalized fuzzy weighting functions can be mapped to one augmented multi-indexed matrix for each homogeneous polynomial. Therefore, less conservative stabilization conditions can be provided as a result of these effective measures and thus a part of the online computational cost is transferred to the offline implementation. Finally, the benefits of the proposed method are illustrated by means of numerical experiments.