Adaptive fuzzy output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with nonsymmetric dead-zone input

In this paper, we present an adaptive control scheme for a class of uncertain nonlinear system with unknown nonsymmetric dead-zone nonlinearity. It is assumed that the system states are unmeasurable. Therefore, an observer is designed to estimate those unmeasured states. The controller is designed by using the backstepping control design procedure. The proposed adaptive scheme requires only the information that the dead-zone slopes are bounded. The new control scheme ensures bounded-error trajectory tracking and the boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop. The feasibility is investigated by an illustrative simulation example.