A Switched System Approach to Exponential Stabilization of Sampled-Data T-S Fuzzy Systems With Packet Dropouts

This paper investigates the problem of exponential stabilization for sampled-data Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy control systems with packet dropouts. An input delay approach is adopted to model the sample-and-hold behavior with a time-varying delayed control input, and a switched system approach is proposed to model the data-missing phenomenon. On this basis, the sampled-data T–S fuzzy control system with packet dropouts is modeled as a switched T–S fuzzy system with time-varying delay. The objective is to design a sampled-data fuzzy controller to guarantee the exponential stability of the resulting closed-loop system. Based on a new piecewise time-dependent Lyapunov functional, a novel sufficient condition is derived for the existence of exponentially stabilizing sampled-data fuzzy controllers. All the solutions to the problem are formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, two simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.