Robust decentralized direct adaptive output feedback fuzzy control for a class of large-sale nonaffine nonlinear systems

In the previous work of Huang et al., a decentralized direct adaptive fuzzy H-infinity tracking controller of large-scale nonaffine nonlinear systems is obtained predicated upon the assumption that the mismatching error dynamics stay squared integrable. In this note, we focus in the absence of the conservative assumption upon developing a robust decentralized direct adaptive output feedback fuzzy controller. By combination of a state observer, a fuzzy inference system and robust control technique, the previous controller design is modified and no a priori knowledge of bounds on lumped uncertainties is required. All the signals of the closed-loop large-scale system are proved to be uniformly ultimately bounded. The effectiveness of the developed scheme is demonstrated through the simulation results of interconnected inverted pendulums. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.