Design of Observer-Based $H_\infty$ Control for Fuzzy Time-Delay Systems

This paper addresses the problem of observer-based H_infin control for nonlinear systems with time-varying delay represented by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. It presents a single-step linear matrix inequality (LMI) method for the fuzzy control design, which overcomes the drawback of the two-step LMI approach often encountered in the literature. The derivation relies mainly on a proposed matrix decoupling technique using which a resultant matrix inequality can be equivalently converted to strict LMIs. When restricted to delay-free fuzzy systems, the present results improve or reduce to existing ones. Illustrative examples show the effectiveness and merits of the present results.