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- From: erik@maui.til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
- Subject: Re: Fuzzy Control
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.191548.14918@til.til.com>
- Keywords: fuzzy control
- Sender: erik@maui (Erik Horstkotte)
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- Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
- References: <68037@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:15:48 GMT
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- In article <68037@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gm26@prism.gatech.EDU
- (MCMURRAY,GARY V) writes:
- |>
-
- [ ... introduction deleted ...]
-
- |> My question is 1) Are there any papers that detail a fuzzy
- |> control
- |> system; 2) I am having trouble understanding how the membership
- |> function
- |> is created in order to create linguistic control rules and the
- |> defuzzification
- |> rules. Thanks for all of your help and I hope that this group is a
- |> big
- |> success!!
-
- 1. There are *lots* of papers that detail fuzzy control systems.
- Check
- out some of the following:
-
- 3rd IFSA Congress - Proceedings of the Congress, 1989.
-
- This was a publication of the International Fuzzy Systems
- Association. I unfortunately have no address or phone number
- for
- IFSA. The book is simply packed with both theoretical and
- practical papers.
-
- IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 1992, IEEE catalog
- number 92CH3073-4, ISBN 0-7803-0236-2.
-
- Generally, look into IFSA (the International Fuzzy Systems
- Association),
- NAFIPS (the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society), and
- perhaps IJAR (the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning).
- Sorry,
- but I don't have references for any of them.
-
- 2. Figuring out your membership functions and rules is always the
- hard
- part of developing a fuzzy expert system of any kind, but especially
- for
- fuzzy control systems (I haven't run across the terminology
- "linguistic
- control rules" and "defuzzification rules" before, however. Were did
- you
- run across this?). This seems to me to be due to the number of
- degrees of
- freedom you have in setting the control system up. For a first cut,
- I
- tend to arbitrarily make some decisions - I start with
- piecewise-linear
- membership functions, either three or five per input variable,
- equally
- spaced around the zero point. I make all the membership functions for
- a
- given variable the same width, with adjacent ones crossing over at the
- 0.5
- membership level. I set the widths of the membership functions by
- spacing
- their peaks equally and making the highest and lowest membership
- functions
- peak at the highest and lowest possible values of the associated
- variable.
- I use either the MAX-PRODUCT (aka MAX-DOT) or SUM-PRODUCT inference
- method,
- and the centroid defuzzification method. This gives me a starting set
- of
- membership functions.
-
- Getting a starting set of rules is somewhat more difficult. It
- requires
- knowing at least *some* points on the control surface you want to
- generate. Where possible, I try to create a PD or PID controller,
- even a
- very poor one, for the system to be controlled, and then
- mathematically
- construct the rules (and output membership functions) from the PD or
- PID
- equation. I'll try to put together a posting on how to do this in
- the
- next week or so, but it's not difficult.
-
- The general technique is to put together a rough controller, and then
- to
- tune the rough controller to improve it, either in place or in
- simulation.
-
- PS: Togai InfraLogic is a company that specializes in fuzzy
- technology.
- We do development systems for both conventional and dedicated fuzzy
- processors, hardware, and engineering services. For more information
- on
- the company, or fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert systems, send email to
- info@til.til.com (...!uunet!til!info).
- --
- Erik Horstkotte, Manager, Software Development, Togai InfraLogic,
- Inc.
- erik@til.til.com, uunet!til!erik - (714) 975-8522
- Standard disclaimer: the preceding are my opinions, not TIL's.
-