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Synthesis of nonlinear discrete control systems via time-delay affine Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models

Wen-Jer Chang1, Wei Chang

  • 1Department of Marine Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202, Taiwan, ROC. wjchang@mail.ntou.edu.tw

ISA Transactions
|May 5, 2005
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