This paper designs a sampled-data controller to exponentially stabilize a kind of chaotic systems(CSs) which are represented by T-S fuzzy model with nonuniform sampling. By employing a switched technology and Lyapunov functional dependent on fuzzy membership-functions(FMFs), a new control criterion for chaotic systems was established. Compared with the existing methods, less conservatism and a large sampling period can be obtained by above approaches. Consequently, the amount of transmitted information is greatly reduced and the efficiency of bandwidth is much improved. Finally, the proposed T-S fuzzy sampled-data(TSFSD) controller is applied to Lorenz system to prove the effectiveness of those methods. INDEX TERMS Chaotic system(CS); Takagi-Sugeno(T-S) fuzzy model; sampled-data controller; exponential stability.