To date, nonl
inear
L∞-
gain control problems have not been solved by the conventional control methods for the nonl
inear dynamic systems with persistent bounded disturbances. This study
introduces a fuzzy control design to deal with the nonl
inear
L∞-
gain output feedback control problem. First, the Takagi and Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy model is employed to approximate the nonl
inear dynamic system. Next, based on the fuzzy model, a fuzzy observer-based fuzzy controller is developed to m
inimize the upper bound of
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gain of the closed-loop system under some l
inear matrix
inequality (LMI) constra
ints. Therefore, the nonl
inear
L∞-
gain control problem is transformed
into a suboptimal control problem, i.e., to m
inimize the upper bound of the
L∞-
gain of the closed-loop system subject to some LMI constra
ints. In this situation, the nonl
inear
L∞-
gain output feedback control problem can be easily solved by a LMI-based optimization method. The proposed methods, which efficiently attenuate the peak of perturbation due to persistent bounded disturbances, extend the
L∞-
gain control problems from l
inear dynamic systems to nonl
inear dynamic systems.