“…The local stability issue in T-S fuzzy models may also be related to the natural existence of constraints in the state variables of real systems, due, for example, to safe operational conditions, physical limitations or some desired level of energy consumptions, as discussed in Klug et al (2014), or related to the presence of time derivatives of the MFs in the stability analysis when dealing with continuous-time systems, as in Guerra et al (2012), Tognetti et al (2013). Further, in the presence of exogenous disturbances, the input-to-state stability properties as well as input-to-output performance criteria of nonlinear systems may hold only locally (Rapaport and Astolfi 2002).…”