Decentralized adaptive fuzzy control of large-scale nonaffine nonlinear systems by state and output feedback

This paper develops two novel decentralized adaptive fuzzy control methods of large-scale nonaffine uncertain nonlinear systems. By using a fuzzy inference system and implicit function theorem, a decentralized direct adaptive state feedback fuzzy control algorithm is firstly presented for a class of large-scale nonaffine continuous-time systems. By using a high-gain observer to reconstruct the system states, an extension is made to a decentralized output feedback control of unmeasurable interactive nonaffine systems. The decentralized adaptive fuzzy control schemes via state and output feedback guarantee the stability of the closed-loop large-scale systems. The effectiveness of the developed approaches is demonstrated through simulation results of a platoon of vehicles within an automated highway system.