Tracking control design for interval type-2 fuzzy nonlinear unreliable networked control systems

Abstract

This paper deals with the interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy tracking control problem for nonlinear networked control systems with unreliable communication links. The plant is described by an IT2 fuzzy system, and the IT2 fuzzy sampled-data tracking controller is designed under the unreliable communication mechanism. By utilizing the Lyapunov theory, the stability demonstration is carried out under the mathematical expectation. The characteristics of membership functions are applied to enhance the stability of the IT2 fuzzy system. With the more sampling information used in the stability analysis, the less conservative sufficient condition is provided based on which a networked tracking controller is designed to ensure the anticipant tracking performance. Finally, the efficiency and the merits of this paper are shown by two simulation examples.