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1. Introduction
Hybrid systems are more common in real physical systems. Complex systems in which discrete event subsystems interact with continuous variable subsystems are called hybrid dynamic systems [1–5]. Switched system, as classical hybrid dynamic system, has attracted much attention. And the model of switched system can be interpreted as a group of subsystems and switching laws (logical rules) describing the relationship between the subsystems [6–10]. In practice, many engineering systems, such as network control systems [11, 12], robot systems [13, 14], and electromechanical systems [15], can be described by the switched system models. The T-S fuzzy model provided new method for the nonlinear system problems [16–21]. The fuzzy rules describing the input-output relationship of each subsystem of nonlinear system are important components of the T-S fuzzy model. Each sublinear fuzzy system is connected by membership function. Therefore, the mature linear system theory can be used to solve the problems of nonlinear system based on T-S fuzzy model [22–25].
Switched fuzzy systems whose subsystems are composed of T-S fuzzy systems, Yang [26] et al. proposed in 2008, further optimize the switching fuzzy systems. The switching law is used to switch the subfuzzy system controlled by the designed controller. Compared with the switching fuzzy system, this system does not rely on the regional rules and optimizes the secondary fuzzy rules into first-order fuzzy rules. The switched fuzzy system model consisting of “switching” and “fuzzy” ideas does not have the restraint like traditional control system, broadening the performance requirements for control. It is suitable for more complex practical systems. Some researches have made results regarding the proposed switched fuzzy systems [27–34]. The network systems were transformed into switched fuzzy model. The free weighting matrix was used to deal with the delay and packet loss caused by the network in [35]. Authors in [36, 37] focused on stability analysis for the switched fuzzy systems; however, the designed controllers all are memoryless state feedback controllers. This kind of controller cannot have effect in the time-delay systems because it does not introduce the past state information of the systems. That is why memory state feedback controller has attracted much attention [38–44]. For example, in [45], a memory state feedback controller was given to control the affine linear parameter variable systems, which verified that the designed
Delays have been encountered in almost all real systems, which can be caused in many conditions. Generally, the transmission of information in a system often leads to the occurrence of time delay, such as communication systems and power systems. [46–54]. Scholars are keen to study stability for delay systems because delays in systems often lead to system performance degradation and instability. Reference [55] introduced the nonfragile control of memory state feedback for stochastic systems with time delays and presented the sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of closed-loop systems by combining Lyapunov function with linear matrix inequality (LMI). The delay-dependent switched fuzzy system was asymptotically stable by the observer switching method, when the actuator was seriously invalid in [56]. The stability conditions of time-delay-independent system are more conservative than delay-dependent system. It is worth noting that, although there are many studies on memory state feedback control, the control problem of memory state feedback has not been involved in time-varying delay (delay-dependent) switched fuzzy systems.
Therefore, this paper uses the Lyapunov function method to study the memory state feedback control problem for switched fuzzy time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems. The stability problem of the open-loop system is discussed, and the criterion for making the open-loop system asymptotically stable is given. The suitable switching law and the memory state feedback controller which has less conservativeness are designed and the more general Lyapunov functionals are selected in order to obtain the sufficient condition for the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. This sufficient condition is compared with that under the control of the memoryless state feedback controller for the closed-loop systems to explore the solvability problems. Simulation results testify that the proposed method is better than memoryless state feedback control under the same initial condition.
2. Analysis of Time-Varying Delay Switched Fuzzy Systems
Time-varying delay switched fuzzy model based on T-S fuzzy model is proposed. That is, each time-varying delay switched subsystem is composed of T-S fuzzy system. The model is different from the switching fuzzy model, and its switching rule is a first-level switching rule. Consider time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems consisting of
Assumption 1.
2.1. Switching Signal Design
Switching signal
Switching law
The
The membership function of the proposed time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems is
Therefore, the global model for the
The open-loop system of the proposed systems based on T-S model is given:
2.2. The Controller Form
Memoryless state feedback controller exists in most literature, which does not introduce past state information. Therefore, consider the memory state feedback controller form of the
According to the given switching law (3) and the memory state feedback controller (11), closed-loop system (12) is obtained:
Remark 2.
In order to better study the proposed time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems, the stability of the open-loop system (8) is considered at first, that is, the characteristics of the system itself.
3. Main Results
In this section, the stability of the open-loop system and the control of the closed-loop system with feedback are mainly studied.
Lemma 3.
Given the constant matrices
3.1. Stability Analysis for Open-Loop System
Theorem 4.
Consider switched fuzzy systems (8); suppose there exist constants
Proof.
Without loss of generality, suppose
Obviously, for
Consider the following Lyapunov functional:
According to Assumption 1,
According to formula (19), formula (20), and formula (21),
We know inequality (22) is established from inequality (15). Therefore,
Remark 5.
The Lyapunov functions selected in this paper are composed of basic independent matrices, and the constant coefficient
3.2. Memory State Feedback Controller Design
The sufficient conditions for the stability of the open-loop system (8) have been obtained by the Lyapunov functional method. Suppose that the state of the proposed time-varying time-delay switched fuzzy system is measurable, suitable controller and switching law can be designed to make the closed-loop system (12) asymptotically stable.
Theorem 6.
Suppose there exist constants
Proof.
Without loss of generality, suppose
Obviously, for
Consider more general Lyapunov functional:
When Equation
Remark 7.
The integral term
There are Lyapunov functional matrices
Theorem 8.
Suppose there exist constants
Proof.
Using the Schur method for the matrix inequality (35)
Multiply matrix
Then, formula (23) is equivalent to formula (36). Proof is to be true.
The gain matrices of the memory state feedback controller are obtained by solving LMI (36):
The global model (11) of the memory state feedback controller can be written in the following form:
Inference 1. Suppose there exist constants
The closed-loop system is asymptotically stable, when the memoryless state feedback controller is
Remark 9.
This paper discusses the situation that the designed controller can stabilize the original system regardless of time-varying delay of the systems. Comparing the linear matrix inequalities (36) with (43), it can be seen that when the inequality (36) has a solution, Equation (43) must have a solution (take
Remark 10.
Equation (23) is transformed into a strict linear matrix inequality (36) by Schur theorem and the matrix inequality method. The transformed LMI matrix increases the conservativeness of the result but makes the final result MATLAB solvable.
4. Simulation Results
Consider the switched fuzzy model with time-varying delay as follows in order to prove the effectiveness of the proposed control method:
Select the time-varying delay functions depending on [48] as follows:
Then,
The parameters in the stability criterion are as follows:
And the gain of the memoryless feedback controller:
Figures 1 and 2 show the state response curves of the closed-loop system (12) controlled by the memory state feedback controller and the memoryless state feedback controller, with the same initial conditions and the switching laws, under the simulink simulation of MATLAB. Figures 3 and 4 show the control curves of the two controllers, where
The state response curve in Figure 1 quickly converges to 0, and the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable; the state response curve in Figure 2 is divergent and the closed-loop system is unstable, which are shown from Figures 1 and 2 under the same initial conditions. The control curve of the memory state feedback controller converges rapidly and the control curve of the memoryless state feedback controller diverges in Figures 3 and 4 under the same initial conditions. Therefore, the control effect with the memory state feedback controller is better than the memoryless state feedback controller for the time-varying delay switched fuzzy system under the given initial conditions.
The initial value is changed to 100 times; that is,
5. Conclusion
In this paper, memory state feedback controller and switching law are designed for a class of time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems. The stability problem of closed-loop systems based on memory state feedback control is studied. According to the definition of asymptotic stability of the system, the Lyapunov functional is constructed, and the LMI solvable criterion for asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system is obtained. Finally, numerical examples and comparative analysis experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method for the proposed control of time-varying switched fuzzy systems.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article.
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by National Nature Science Foundation under Grant 61004039, Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University under Grant LR2015043, and Project of Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grants 20170540647 and 201602529.
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Abstract
Consider the problem of memoryless state feedback controller for time-delay system, which cannot consider both the memoryless and the memory items in the system. Therefore, the memoryless state feedback controller has certain limitations and is more conservative. This paper addresses the memory state feedback control for the time-varying delay switched fuzzy systems based on T-S fuzzy model to overcome the problem discussed above. The state vector and input of the time-varying delay systems contain unknown time-varying delay with known bounds. The designed controller whose parameters are solvable can introduce past state information and reduce the system conservativeness. The more general Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is selected and the switching law is designed in order to analyze the open-loop system stability, and the memory state feedback controller is designed for the closed-loop system and the criterion for its asymptotic stability. Discuss the solvability of the above two criteria. Finally, a numerical example is given. The simulation results show that the proposed method is more feasible and effective.
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