Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the delay-dependent robust reliable guaranteed cost (RRGC) fuzzy control problem for discrete-time nonlinear systems with time-varying delays. The delays may simultaneously appear in the state and in the control input. Also, both parametric uncertainties and control component failure may exist. Through Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy modelling of nonlinear delayed-systems and based on an appropriate piecewise Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, a piecewise fuzzy controller is designed. Sufficient conditions for the existence of a RRGC controller are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Furthermore, a suboptimal RRGC fuzzy controller is given by means of a convex optimization procedure with LMI constraints which can not only guarantee the stability of the closed-loop fuzzy system, but also provides an optimized upper bound of the given cost performance despite possible actuator faults. Two numerical examples are presented in this paper to illustrate the feasibility of the theoretical developments.