On the exact output regulation for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems

In this paper, the Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy modelling and the fuzzy regulation theory are considered in order to design a fuzzy controller capable of taking the output of a fuzzy plant to the reference signal generated by an external system. It is well-known that TS fuzzy modelling allows the stabilizer to be obtained by means of numerical techniques. As a result, stability region defined by the fuzzy stabilizer is larger than the one obtained when a simple linear stabilizer is considered. On the other hand, a fuzzy regulator constructed from linear controllers does not solve the exact regulation problem in general [6], [12], [13], [15]. Therefore, a fully nonlinear regulator, defined on the overall TS fuzzy model, is considered in this work. The results are applied on a simple fuzzy model in order to illustrate the improvement achieved with the proposed approach.