Finite-time fuzzy control for nonlinear singularly perturbed systems with input constraints

Singularly perturbed systems have found widespread applications in practice. The existing results on singularly perturbed systems mainly focused on the Lyapunov asymptotic stability, which are unable to deal with the cases that the system states cannot exceed a given threshold during a fixed time interval. This article addresses the finite-time fuzzy control issue for discrete-time nonlinear singularly perturbed systems with input constraints. The aim is to guarantee the boundedness of the states of singularly perturbed systems during a finite-time interval. Based on the matrix inequality technique, some conditions are established to guarantee the finite-time boundedness of the fuzzy singularly perturbed systems, where the singularly perturbed parameter is independent so as to avoid the ill-conditioned problem caused by the small singularly perturbed parameter. The gains of the finite-time fuzzy controller can be obtained by solving some singularly perturbed parameter independent linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the proposed finite-time fuzzy controller design approach for nonlinear singularly perturbed systems is illustrated via the Van der Pol circuit.