Adaptive Fuzzy Output-Feedback Predefined-Time Control of Nonlinear Switched Systems With Admissible Edge-Dependent Average Dwell Time

This article investigates the adaptive fuzzy output-feedback predefined-time control of nonlinear switched systems with an admissible edge-dependent average dwell time. Different from most of the existing results on neural or fuzzy adaptive finite/fixed-time tracking control of switched systems, where the tracking error goes to a small neighborhood of the origin within finite time, the proposed one can ensure the output tracking error to reach user-defined accuracy within predefined time, which can be arbitrarily preassigned by the designers. Technically, based on the mode-dependent fuzzy state observer, an adaptive output-feedback predefined-time controller is constructed by incorporating a new state-scale transformation function into the barrier Lyapunov function, ensuring predefined transient behavior and tracking accuracy. Besides, by extending the adaptive control problem to the admissible edge-dependent average dwell time framework, the proposed adaptive control scheme can guarantee that all the closed-loop signals are bounded under switching signals with an admissible edge-dependent average dwell time property. It is less conservative than the average dwell time and mode-dependent average dwell time. Finally, two illustrative examples validate the performance of the method presented.