Fuzzy Control of Nonlinear Pipeline Systems with Bounds on Output Peak.

A new fuzzy control method for nonlinear pipeline system is discussed in this paper. The nonlinear dynamics of pipeline system is composed by two gravity-flow tanks, and are described by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. The controller design is based on overall stability, and is carried out via the parallel distributed compensation (PDC) scheme. To obtain better output dynamic performance, a given bounds is introduced to the output of nonlinear systems. Moreover, by means of linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, it is shown that the existence of such constrained control system can be transformed into the feasibility of a convex optimization problem. Finally, by applying the designed controller, the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]