ADAPTIVE FUZZY SLIDING MODE CONTROL FOR BASE-ISOLATED BUILDINGS
The purpose of this paper is to apply adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for the structural control of base-isolated buildings. Combining the fuzzy control and sliding mode control one can reduce the complexity of fuzzy rule bases. It also ensures the stability and robustness. The Lyapunov theory is used to develop the adaptive law. In addition to full-state-feedback controller, an estimator using only the measured information from a few sensors is presented. Finally, the adaptive sliding mode control is applied to two types of base-isolated building, with LRB, and sliding bearing isolators. Stiffness uncertainty and time delay is utilized to illustrate the robustness of this proposed algorithm. The effectiveness of this algorithm is demonstrated by simulation results for a long period, a wide-pass white noise artificial earthquake and Taiwan Chi Chi earthquake occurred in 1999. The simulations show that adaptive sliding mode control can achieve satisfactory results in the application of structural control for base-isolated buildings.