Exponentially stabilizing fuzzy controller design for a nonlinear ODE-beam cascaded system and its application to flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle

This paper addresses fuzzy control design for a class of nonlinear systems which are described by nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) cascaded with an Euler-Bernoulli beam (EBB) equation. Two design difficulties are involved in the control design addressed in this paper. The first one is caused by the EBB equation whose spatiotemporal dynamics is affected by the output of the nonlinear ODE subsystem through its differential equation...