“…They proposed a stability condition for fuzzy systems in which di erent quadratic Lyapunov functions in di erent operating regions were searched to constitute a continuous Lyapunov function in the global state space. Zhang et al [18] employed a maximum defuzziÿer to avoid the di culty of ÿnding a common positivedeÿnite matrix P. Among these approaches, [1,6,9,10,[13][14][15][16][17] disregarded the structural information encoded in the rule's promises. However, in practical application, the fuzzy membership functions of input variables of most fuzzy control systems have bounded support and a subsystem is only valid in a limited region of the state space.…”