Fuzzy Controllers Handbook

This book teaches you how to design a fuzzy controller and shares the author's experience of design and applications. It is the perfect book for you if you want to know something about fuzzy control and fuzzy controllers, but you are not a mathematician, so what you are really interested in is the design process. As an introduction it assumes no preliminary knowledge of fuzzy theory and technology, but starts at the root of a problem and works from there. TIf you have some experience in fuzzy controller design but are not sure how to choose the number of membership functions, how to shape them properly, or how to debug a fuzzy controller; if you are a beginner with fuzzy logic, and so you would like to know how to apply the theory; if you are researching fuzzy logic or if you need some help with a project at work - this book is for you! The text is designed for use both as a course companion for both teachers and students or for self-study. Leon Reznik has worked on fuzzy logic applications in a huge range of control situations including spacecraft launch control, microprocessor control, and metallurgical furnace control. Latterly he has been teaching in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Victoria University of Technology, Australia. His work in the area has generated a substantial volume of papers in both Russian and English. First readable book on the subject Ideal for professionals and students alike This book takes fuzzy logic out of the ivory tower and into the workplace

This book is a compilation of various research outcomes on diverse applications of fuzzy control systems. At the center of numerous engineering challenges is the question of controlling different systems. The theory of fuzzy control has been a subject of central attention in ongoing research. The wide spectrum of these structures includes a variety of systems varying from the inverted pendulum to auto-focusing system of a digital camera. Fuzzy control systems have displayed improved output in many areas. Advances in this sphere have been rapid, giving rise to the need for literature that documents all the recent advances both in theory and in applications. With an aim of serving the same purpose, this book covers fuzzy logic controllers in electric railways systems, non-linear systems, in linear motor drive, application in wheelchair, etc. It will provide the readers with a clear picture of current status of research in this field. It will be a good source of reference for researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students specializing in associated fields of fuzzy control systems.

Teaches how to design a fuzzy controller, includes theoretical fundamentals of fuzzy logic as well as practical aspects of fuzzy technology.

This handbook shows the reader how to develop neural networks and apply them to various engineering control problems. Based on a workshop on aerospace applications, this tutorial covers integration of neural networks with existing control architectures as well as new neurocontrol architectures in nonlinear control.

Initially conceived as a methodology for the representation and manipulation of imprecise and vague information, fuzzy computation has found wide use in problems that fall well beyond its originally intended scope of application. Many scientists and engineers now use the paradigms of fuzzy computation to tackle problems that are either intractable

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996. Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields. Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition brilliantly organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts representing every corner of the globe. They cover everything from basic closed-loop systems to multi-agent adaptive systems and from the control of electric motors to the control of complex networks. Progressively organized, the three volume set includes: Control System Fundamentals Control System Applications Control System Advanced Methods Any practicing engineer, student, or researcher working in fields as diverse as electronics, aeronautics, or biomedicine will find this handbook to be a time-saving resource filled with invaluable formulas, models, methods, and innovative thinking. In fact, any physicist, biologist, mathematician, or researcher in any number of fields developing or improving products and systems will find the answers and ideas they need. As with the first edition, the new edition not only stands as a record of accomplishment in control engineering but provides researchers with the means to make further advances.

This book addresses some of the challenges suffered by the well-known and robust sliding-mode control paradigm. The authors show how the fusion of fuzzy systems with sliding-mode controllers can alleviate some of these problems and promote applicability. Fuzzy systems used as soft switches eliminate high-frequency signal oscillations and can substantially lower the noise sensitivity of sliding-mode controllers. The amount of a priori knowledge required concerning the nominal structure and parameters of a nonlinear system is also shown to be much reduced by exploiting the general function-approximation property of fuzzy systems so as to use them as identifiers. The main features of this book include: • a review of various existing structures of sliding-mode fuzzy control; • a guide to the fundamental mathematics of sliding-mode fuzzy controllers and their stability analysis; • state-of-the-art procedures for the design of a sliding-mode fuzzy controller; • source codes including MATLAB® and Simulink® codes illustrating the simulation of these controllers, particularly the adaptive controllers; • a short bibliography for each chapter for readers interested in learning more on a particular subject; and • illustrative examples and simulation results to support the main claims made in the text. Academic researchers and graduate students interested in the control of nonlinear systems and particularly those working in sliding-mode controller design will find this book a valuable source of comparative information on existing controllers and ideas for the development of new ones.

Fuzzy controllers are a class of knowledge based controllers using artificial intelligence techniques with origins in fuzzy logic. They can be found either as stand-alone control elements or as integral parts of a wide range of industrial process control systems and consumer products. Applications of fuzzy controllers are an established practice for Japanese manufacturers, and are spreading in Europe and America. The main aim of this book is to show that fuzzy control is not totally ad hoc, that there exist formal techniques for the analysis of a fuzzy controller, and that fuzzy control can be implemented even when no expert knowledge is available. The book is mainly oriented to control engineers and theorists, although parts can be read without any knowledge of control theory and may interest AI people. This 2nd, revised edition incorporates suggestions from numerous reviewers and updates and reorganizes some of the material.