Citation: CHEN, M., CHEN, W-H. and WU, Q-X., 2014. Adaptive fuzzy tracking control for a class of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems using disturbance observer. Science China Information Sciences, 57 (1), pp 1-13.Additional Information:• Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK Abstract: In this paper, adaptive fuzzy tracking control is proposed for a class of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems in the presence of system uncertainties, unknown nonsymmetric input saturation and unknown external disturbances. For the MIMO nonlinear system, the time-varying external disturbance cannot be directly measured which is estimated via disturbance observer. By choosing the appropriate gain matrix, disturbance observer can approximate the unknown disturbance well and the estimate error converges to a compact set. And then, fuzzy logic systems (FLS) are used to approximate the system uncertainty of MIMO nonlinear systems.Based on outputs of disturbance observer and FLS, adaptive tracking control is presented for the uncertain MIMO nonlinear system. Considering the unknown non-symmetric input saturation and control singularity case, adaptive fuzzy tracking control is developed via disturbance observer and FLS approximation technique. The effects of unknown input saturation and control singularity are treated as a part of system compound disturbance which is estimated using disturbance observer.Under the proposed tracking control techniques, semi-global uniform boundedness of the closed-loop signals is guaranteed via Lyapunov analysis. Numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed tracking control schemes.