Mode-independent fuzzy fault-tolerant variable sampling stabilization of nonlinear networked systems with both time-varying and random delays

This paper develops a fault-tolerant variable sampling control (VSC) scheme for a class of nonlinear networked control systems (NCSs) with time-varying state and random network delays. An uncertain continuous Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy system with both state and input varying delays, in the presence of possible actuator faults, is obtained equivalently on the basis of the input delay methodology. A tighter bounding lemma is proposed so as to gain less conservative closed-loop stability criteria. Delay-dependent conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities are derived for the mode-independent fault-tolerant stabilizing controller of the resulting Markovian network-based system by employing a novel stochastic Lyapunov–Krasovskii (L–K) functional. An illustrative example is simulated to show the validity of the obtained results. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.