In this paper, the problem of reliable bumpless transfer control for switched systems with actuator faults is investigated. A switching law and a class of reliable controllers via output feedback are constructed such that the bumpless transfer performance and \(H_\infty \) reliable property of the closed-loop systems are guaranteed. The switching process is divided into two stages, that is, dwell time and state-dependent switching stages. In the dwell time stage, a low bound of the time of the activated subsystem is introduced to restrict the frequent switching and suppress the system bumps. This guarantees the bumpless transfer performance of systems. In the second stage, only the measurable controller states are used to generate the switching signals, which upgrades the feasibility in the frame of output feedback. Finally, to ensure the \(H_\infty \) reliable property, the proposed controllers are time-varying, which work in the different switching stages. A simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
