Fuzzy Adaptive Control With State Observer for a Class of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems With Input Constraint

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy controller is constructed for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems with unknown functions and bounded disturbances. The main characteristics of the systems are that they take into account the effect of discrete-time dead zone and the system states are not required to be measurable. The stability problem of this class of systems is for the first time to be addressed in this paper. Due to the unavailability of the states and the presence of the discrete-time dead zone, the controller design becomes more difficult. To stabilize the uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems, the fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown functions, a fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the immeasurable states, and the effect caused by discrete-time dead zone can be solved via establishing an adaptation auxiliary signal. Based on the Lyapunov approach, it is proved that all the signals of the closed-loop system are the semiglobal uniformly ultimately bounded, and the tracking error is made within a small neighborhood around zero. The feasibility of the developed control scheme is verified via two simulation examples.