An Aperiodic-Sampling-Dependent Event-Triggered Control Strategy for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems: New Communication Scheme and Discontinuous Functional

This article studies the event-triggered control problem of interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy systems. It proposes a new aperiodic-sampling-dependent event-triggered communication scheme, and introduces an improved sampling-dependent discontinuous functional. First, taking into account that the system is with aperiodic sampling, the weighting matrices used for judgement in the event-triggered scheme are designed to be related to each sampling interval or its upper and lower bounds, according to the sampling interval being predictable or not. This design makes the scheme more flexible, thereby improving control effectiveness. Second, a sampling-dependent discontinuous functional is introduced into event-triggered control, which contains matrix variables depending on the aperiodic sampling, and incorporates an improved discontinuous term and a vector related to event-triggered condition. Thus, the functional reduces the conservativeness of stability and stabilization criteria. Based on the above aperiodic-sampling-dependent strategy, the derived results achieve better event-triggered control effects compared with the recent literature. At the end, two examples are given to validate the theoretical effectiveness and advantages of the results under various parameters.