IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, VOL. 2, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2012, An Efficient Lyapunov Function for Discrete ‘ES Models: Observer Design ‘T.M. Guerra, Member, IEEE, H. Kerkeni, J Lauber, and L. Vermeiren Abstract—Uhis paper deals with the design of a new observer synthe= sis for discrete Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. I is wel established that quadratic synthesis for discrete T-S models andlor linear parameter ‘varying systems cam be outperformed easily vin nonguratic syntheses, ‘Several Lyapunov functions can be used. Nevertheless, this paper shows ‘that with “small” change i the initial Lyapuno function, a etter” Ga ‘the sense of solutions tothe linear matrix inequality constraints problem) ‘Lyapunos function ean be reached. This one can introduce very important improvements Index Terms—Asymptotie stability discrete Takagl-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy ‘models linear matrix inequality (LMI), nonquadratie Lyapunov function. | Istropucrion, ‘The Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models {1} have reached a kind of, ‘maturity, and the results obtained through the Lyapunoy direet method and linear matrix inequalities (LMD are numerous (see (2]-{4] and Sa ae ecm ae 0 ‘posed. Following this way, combining [18] and Polya’s approach (10), recent and similar works (21), [22] extended the result to polynomial ‘Lyapunoy functions, thus increasing the number of sum atthe same instant. New improvements in the discrete case were developed in [23], ‘where stability conditions were obtained replacing the classical one- ‘sample variation ofthe Lyapunov function by its variation over several samples V(t-+)-V(t) <0, k>1 (Ge, k-sample variation ap- proach). The authors proved that the more the samples considered, the loss conservative the results, where several families of new and promising results were obtained [23], [24]. Most ofthese results can ‘be extended to the problem of state vector estimation, i., designing an observer, Nevertheless, despite these nice results, te initial Lyepunov func- tion choice thats made in{18] isnot the “best” possible one. Therefore, ‘the main proposition of this papers to present a new Lyapunov func tion and the associated results for observer design. Explanations on the advantages ofthis Lyapunov function are given. The extension to ‘sample variations as in [25] is also done. Notice that every re- laxation scheme could have been done beginning with that the new LLyapunoy function and outperforming the oldest one. Indeed, itis pos- sibleto apply directly for example, Polya stuf [10] and/or polynomial ‘Lyapunov function [21], [22], but this is not within the scope of this