The adaptive control of nonlinear systems using the Sugeno-type of fuzzy logic

An adaptive fuzzy controller is synthesized from a collection of fuzzy IF-THEN rules. The parameters of the membership functions characterizing the linguistic terms in the fuzzy IF-THEN rules are changed according to some adaptive laws for the purpose of controlling a plant to track a reference trajectory. In the paper, a direct adaptive fuzzy control design method is developed for the general higher order nonlinear continuous systems. We use the Sugeno-type of the fuzzy logic system to approximate the controller. It is proved that the closed-loop system using this adaptive fuzzy controller is globally stable in the sense that all signals involved are bounded. Finally, we apply the method of direct adaptive fuzzy controllers to control an unstable system.