Observer-based adaptive fuzzy control for SISO nonlinear systems

The observer-based indirect and direct adaptive fuzzy controllers are developed for a class of SISO uncertain nonlinear systems. The proposed approaches do not need the availability of the state variables. By designing the state observer, the adaptive fuzzy systems, which are used to model the unknown functions, can be constructed using the state estimations. Thus, a new hybrid adaptive fuzzy control method is proposed by combining the above adaptive fuzzy system with the H^∞ control technique. Based on Lyapunov stability theorem, the proposed adaptive fuzzy control system can guarantee the stability of the whole closed-loop systems and obtain good tracking performance as well. The proposed methods are applied to an inverted pendulum system and a chaotic system and achieve satisfactory simulation results. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.