Abstract: | This paper deals with the gain‐scheduled H∞ filtering problem for a class of parameter‐varying systems. A sufficient condition for the existence of a gain‐scheduled filter, which guarantees the asymptotic stability with an H∞ noise attenuation level bound for the filtering error system, is given in terms of a finite number of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The filter is designed to be parameter‐varying and have a nonlinear fractional transformation structure. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the application of the proposed method. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |