“…Nonetheless, the quadratic approach presents serious limitations because its solutions are inherently pessimistic, i.e., there are stable or stabilizable models which do not have a quadratic solution (see [10] and references therein). Conservativeness comes from different sources: the type of TS model [11,12], the way the membership functions are dropped-off to obtain LMI expressions [13][14][15], the integration of membership-function information [16,17], or the choice of Lyapunov function [18,19]. This work is concerned with a relaxation in the latter sense which demands a change of perspective from global to local conditions.…”