continuous takagi sugeno s models reduction of the number of lmi conditions in various fuzzy control design technics fuzzy models of the takagi sugeno type enable representation of a wide class of nonlinear models conditions about their stabilization can be derived systematically usually these conditions are written as linear matrix inequality lmi problems in this paper we use a collection of properties concerning matrices to extend the area of solutions involving the feedback control laws we will work out with continuous fuzzy models and supply results about the stabilization the regulator problem and also hinfin control solutions based on a reduced number of decision variables implying a reduced number of lmi conditions are also proposed we show that a good tradeoff can been obtained

model construction rule reduction and robust compensation for generalized form of takagi sugeno fuzzy systems this paper presents a systematic procedure of fuzzy control system design that consists of fuzzy model construction rule reduction and robust compensation for nonlinear systems the model construction part replaces the nonlinear dynamics of a system with a generalized form of takagi sugeno fuzzy systems which is newly developed by us the generalized form has a decomposed structure for each element of a sub i and b sub i matrices in consequent parts the key feature of this structure is that it is suitable for constructing if then rules and reducing the number of if then rules the rule reduction part provides a successive procedure to reduce the number of if then rules furthermore we convert the reduction error between reduced fuzzy models and a system to model uncertainties of reduced fuzzy models the robust compensation part achieves the decay rate controller design guaranteeing robust stability for the model uncertainties finally two examples demonstrate the utility of the systematic procedure developed

a modified corotational framework for triangular shell elements the corotational framework for triangular shell elements has been presented by different authors see the introduction the purpose of this paper is to introduce three modifications in this approach the first one is a simplified definition of the local rotations the second one is a reduction of the number of local degrees of freedom from 18 to 15 the third and principal one concerns the parameterisation of the global finite rotations a new approach based on euler parameters quaternion is proposed in particular it is shown that only three parameters are required the purpose of these three modifications is to obtain a formulation which gives the same numerical results but which is computationally more efficient than the original one this aspect is illustrated in several numerical examples

robust h control for uncertain discrete stochastic time delay systems this paper deals with the problems of robust stabilization and robust h control for discrete stochastic systems with time varying delays and time varying norm bounded parameter uncertainties for the robust stabilization problem attention is focused on the design of a state feedback controller which ensures robust stochastic stability of the closed loop system for all admissible uncertainties while for the robust h control problem a state feedback controller is designed such that in addition to the requirement of the robust stochastic stability a prescribed h performance level is also required to be satisfied a linear matrix inequality lmi approach is developed to solve these problems and delay dependent conditions for the solvability are obtained it is shown that the desired state feedback controller can be constructed by solving certain lmis an example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach

h sub spl infin fuzzy output feedback control design for nonlinear systems an lmi approach addresses the problem of stabilizing a class of nonlinear systems by using an h sub spl infin fuzzy output feedback controller first a class of nonlinear systems is approximated by a takagi sugeno ts fuzzy model then based on a well known lyapunov functional approach we develop a technique for designing an h sub spl infin fuzzy output feedback control law which guarantees the l sub 2 gain from an exogenous input to a regulated output is less or equal to a prescribed value a design algorithm for constructing an h sub spl infin fuzzy output feedback controller is given in contrast to the existing results the premise variables of the h sub spl infin fuzzy output feedback controller are not necessarily to be the same as the premise variables of the ts fuzzy model of the plant a numerical simulation example is presented to illustrate the theory development

h control for sampled data nonlinear systems described by takagi sugeno fuzzy systems in this paper we consider the design problem of output feedback h controllers for sampled data fuzzy systems we first transfer them into equivalent jump fuzzy systems we establish the so called bounded real lemma for jump fuzzy systems and give a design method of suboptimal output feedback h controllers in terms of two riccati inequalities with jumps we then apply the main results to the sampled data fuzzy systems and obtain a design method of suboptimal output feedback h controllers we give a numerical example and construct a suboptimal output feedback h controller

an approach to fuzzy control of nonlinear systems stability and design issues presents a design methodology for stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems first the authors represent a nonlinear plant with a takagi sugeno fuzzy model then a model based fuzzy controller design utilizing the concept of the so called parallel distributed compensation is employed the main idea of the controller design is to derive each control rule so as to compensate each rule of a fuzzy system the design procedure is conceptually simple and natural moreover the stability analysis and control design problems can be reduced to linear matrix inequality lmi problems therefore they can be solved efficiently in practice by convex programming techniques for lmis the design methodology is illustrated by application to the problem of balancing and swing up of an inverted pendulum on a cart

analysis and design of fuzzy controller and fuzzy observer this paper addresses the analysis and design of a fuzzy controller and a fuzzy observer on the basis of the takagi sugeno t s fuzzy model the main contribution of the paper is the development of the separation property that is the fuzzy controller and the fuzzy observer can be independently designed a numerical simulation and an experiment on an inverted pendulum system are described to illustrate the performance of the fuzzy controller and the fuzzy observer

fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers relaxed stability conditions and lmi based designs this paper presents new relaxed stability conditions and lmi linear matrix inequality based designs for both continuous and discrete fuzzy control systems they are applied to design problems of fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers first takagi and sugeno s fuzzy models and some stability results are recalled to design fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers nonlinear systems are represented by takagi sugeno s ts fuzzy models the concept of parallel distributed compensation is employed to design fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers from the ts fuzzy models new stability conditions are obtained by relaxing the stability conditions derived in previous papers lmi based design procedures for fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers are constructed using the parallel distributed compensation and the relaxed stability conditions other lmi s with respect to decay rate and constraints on control input and output are also derived and utilized in the design procedures design examples for nonlinear systems demonstrate the utility of the relaxed stability conditions and the lmi based design procedures

new approaches to h controller designs based on fuzzy observers for t s fuzzy systems via lmi the problems of relaxed quadratic stability conditions fuzzy observer designs and h controller designs for t s fuzzy systems have been studied first new stability conditions are obtained by relaxing the stability conditions derived in previous papers secondly new fuzzy observers based on the relaxed stability conditions for the t s fuzzy systems have been proposed thirdly two sufficient lmi conditions which guarantee the existence of the h controllers based on fuzzy observers for the t s fuzzy systems have been proposed the conditions are not only simple but also consider the interactions among the fuzzy subsystems finally by some examples using the lmi technique we show that the regulators the fuzzy observers and the h controller designs based on new observers for the t s fuzzy systems are very practical and efficient

fastderain a novel video rain streak removal method using directional gradient priors rain streaks removal is an important issue in outdoor vision systems and has recently been investigated extensively in this paper we propose a novel video rain streak removal approach fastderain which fully considers the discriminative characteristics of rain streaks and the clean video in the gradient domain specifically on the one hand rain streaks are sparse and smooth along the direction of the raindrops whereas on the other hand clean videos exhibit piecewise smoothness along the rain perpendicular direction and continuity along the temporal direction theses smoothness and continuity result in the sparse distribution in the different directional gradient domain thus we minimize 1 the ell 1 norm to enhance the sparsity of the underlying rain streaks 2 two ell 1 norm of unidirectional total variation regularizers to guarantee the anisotropic spatial smoothness and 3 an ell 1 norm of the time directional difference operator to characterize the temporal continuity a split augmented lagrangian shrinkage algorithm based algorithm is designed to solve the proposed minimization model experiments conducted on synthetic and real data demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method according to the comprehensive quantitative performance measures our approach outperforms other state of the art methods especially on account of the running time the code of fastderain can be downloaded at https github com taixiangjiang fastderain

new approaches to relaxed quadratic stability condition of fuzzy control systems this paper deals with the quadratic stability conditions of fuzzy control systems that relax the existing conditions reported in the previous literatures two new conditions are proposed and shown to be useful in analyzing and designing fuzzy control systems the first one employs the s procedure to utilize information regarding the premise parts of the fuzzy systems the next one enlarges the class of fuzzy control systems whose stability is ensured by representing the interactions among the fuzzy subsystems in a single matrix and solving it by linear matrix inequality the relationships between the suggested stability conditions and the conventional well known stability conditions reported in the previous literatures are also discussed and it is shown in a rigorous manner that the second condition of this paper includes the conventional conditions finally some examples and simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the stability conditions

explicit controller formulas for lmi based h synthesis the set of h controllers with closed loop performance c can be implicitly parametrized by the solutions r s of a system of linear matrix inequalities lmi the matrices r and s play a role analogous to that of the riccati solutions x and y in classical riccati based h control useful applications include lmi based h synthesis mixed h 2h design and h design with a pole placement constraint this paper is concerned with the reliable computation of h controllers given a solution r s of the characteristic system of lmis explicit formulas are derived for both the regular and singular cases remarkably these formulas are extensions of the usual central controller formulas where the lmi solutions r and s replace the riccati solutions x and y simple and numerically appealing new formulas for discrete time h controllers are also derived

parameterized linear matrix inequality techniques in fuzzy control system design this paper proposes different parameterized linear matrix inequality plmi characterizations for fuzzy control systems these plmi characterizations are in turn relaxed into pure lmi programs which provides tractable and effective techniques for the design of suboptimal fuzzy control systems the advantages of the proposed methods over earlier ones are then discussed and illustrated through numerical examples and simulations

a robust h_ infty non pdc design scheme for singularly perturbed t s fuzzy systems with immeasurable state variables this paper addresses an observer based robust h infty fuzzy controller design method for singularly perturbed nonlinear systems with external disturbances which are represented by uncertain takagi sugeno t s fuzzy models for a practical output feedback design the premise variables of the fuzzy controller and the fuzzy observer are considered unknown in general a fuzzy lyapunov function is utilized for the synthesis of the nonparallel distributed compensation based controller the closed loop singularly perturbed t s fuzzy system is asymptotically robustly stable in the absence of disturbances and satisfies an h infty norm condition in the presence of disturbances for all positive values of the singular perturbation parameter within the given desired bound using the descriptor redundancy approach some strict linear matrix inequality lmi conditions are derived for the h infty robustness of the closed loop system when uncertainties are simultaneously considered in all state space matrices of each fuzzy subsystem the main disadvantage of a fuzzy lyapunov function based design is that the bounds on the derivatives of the membership functions must be known a priori inspired by a recent work that provides the bounds of the membership derivatives for a given arbitrary compact set on the state space a new method is proposed that guarantees that the closed loop observer based uncertain singularly perturbed t s fuzzy system remains robustly stable in the compact set using finsler s lemma the resulting design conditions are converted to lmis two numerical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method

a new robust d stability condition for real convex polytopic uncertainty abstract the problem of robust d stability analysis with respect to real convex polytopic uncertainties is tackled a new lmi based sufficient condition for the existence of parameter dependent lyapunov functions is proposed this condition generalises previously published conditions numerical comparisons with quadratic stability results as well as previous results based on parameter dependent lyapunov functions illustrate the relevance of this new condition finally this result appears to be promising for robust multi objective performance analysis and control synthesis purposes

output stabilization of takagi sugeno fuzzy systems abstract in this paper the output stabilization problem of takagi sugeno fuzzy models is considered first a natural form of observers for such models is given sufficient conditions for their asymptotic convergence are given which are dual to those for the stability of state feedback fuzzy controllers we then show that a state feedback controller and an observer always yield a stabilizing output feedback controller provided that the stabilizing property of the control and the asymptotic convergence of the observer are guaranteed by the lyapunov method using positive definite matrices in this sense it is shown that the separation principle holds for takagi sugeno fuzzy systems two design examples are given to illustrate the theory

an approach to h control of fuzzy dynamic systems this paper presents an approach to h control of a class of continuous time nonlinear systems which can be represented by a fuzzy dynamic model a suitable piecewise differentiable quadratic lyapunov function is used to establish asymptotic stability and h performance of the closed loop fuzzy control system a constructive algorithm is developed to obtain the h feedback control law which involves solving a set of suitable algebraic riccati equations an example is given to illustrate the application of the method

a new discrete time robust stability condition a new robust stability condition for uncertain discrete time systems with convex polytopic uncertainty is given it enables to check stability using parameter dependent lyapunov functions which are derived from lmi conditions it is shown that this new condition provides better results than the classical quadratic stability besides the use of a parameter dependent lyapunov function this condition exhibits a kind of decoupling between the lyapunov and the system matrices which may be explored for control synthesis purposes a numerical example illustrates the results

lmi based relaxed nonquadratic stabilization conditions for nonlinear systems in the takagi sugeno s form this paper presents the stabilization analysis for a class of nonlinear systems that are represented by a takagi and sugeno ts discrete fuzzy model takagi and sugeno ieee trans systems man cybern 15 1 1985 116 the main result given here concerns their stabilization using new control laws and new nonquadratic lyapunov functions new relaxed conditions and linear matrix inequality based design are proposed that allow outperforming previous results found in the literature two examples are also provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the approaches

piecewise quadratic stability of fuzzy systems presents an approach to stability analysis of fuzzy systems the analysis is based on lyapunov functions that are continuous and piecewise quadratic the approach exploits the gain scheduling nature of fuzzy systems and results in stability conditions that can be verified via convex optimization over linear matrix inequalities examples demonstrate the many improvements over analysis based on a single quadratic lyapunov function special attention is given to the computational aspects of the approach and several methods to improve the computational efficiency are described

on relaxed lmi based designs for fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers relaxed conditions for stability of nonlinear continuous and discrete time systems given by fuzzy models are presented a theoretical analysis shows that the proposed methods provide better or at least the same results of the methods presented in the literature numerical results exemplify this fact these results are also used for fuzzy regulators and observers designs the nonlinear systems are represented by fuzzy models proposed by takagi and sugeno 1985 the stability analysis and the design of controllers are described by linear matrix inequalities that can be solved efficiently using convex programming techniques the specification of the decay rate constrains on control input and output are also discussed