Combustion control of an industrial stoker-"red boiler is to provide a continuous supply of steam at the desired condition of pressure. Because no e$cient mathematical model of the stoker-"red boiler is available, it would be very hard to design its controller by using any traditional model-based method. Therefore, the most widely used controller for the boiler system is a conventional PID-type...

The paper investigates a new kind of controller--the quantized controller, which can give a close to optimum nonlinear control surface. In contrary to the rough control surface generated by the fuzzy controller, the quantized controller can give better and smoother control. The quantized controller is trainable. By using an error function and the gradient decent method, control surface can be f...

This paper proposes the design of a cascade control using fuzzy logic. A new set of fuzzy logic rules are added to a conventional Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) to build the Fuzzy Controller with Intermediate Variable (FCIV). The proposed controller is tested in the control of a nonlinear chemical process, and its performance is compared to other controllers.

conjugated polymer actuators can be employed to achieve micro and nano scale precision, and have a wide range of applications including biomimetic robots, and biomedical devices. in comparison to robotic joints, they do not have friction or backlash, but on the other hand, they have complicated electro-chemo-mechanical dynamics which makes modelling and control of the actuator really difficult....

This paper studies the fuzzy PID controller design algorithm, and it has set up a hardware platform for the temperature control system thermal analyzer, respectively with MATLAB tools to conventional PID and fuzzy PID control method has carried on the simulation analysis, and in the actual building experiments have been carried out to test system platform. Experimental results show that the fuz...

In this paper performance of Puma 560 manipulator is being compared for hybrid gradient descent and least square method learning based ANFIS controller with hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Generalized Pattern Search tuned radial basis function based Neuro-Fuzzy controller. ANFIS which is based on Takagi Sugeno type Fuzzy controller needs prior knowledge of rule base while in radial basis function ...

Basic fuzzy controller (BFC) has been successfully adopted to control greenhouse environment temperature. Variable universal adaptive fuzzy controller (VUAFC) which can contracts or expands the universal of the fuzzy variables of the BFC by the value of response error has been developed to get better control performance. By analyzing the result of experiments, VUAFC improved the performance of ...

The Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller (IT2FLC) for a Quadruple Tank Process (QTP) is demonstrated in this paper. Here the Interval Type-2 based Fuzzy membership function is used. The QTP is made to operate in minimum phase mode. The vertices of fuzzy membership functions are tuned with IT2FLC to minimize Integral Absolute Error. Performance of IT2FLC and Type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controller (T1FL...

The majority of the research work on fuzzy PID controllers focuses on the conventional two-input PI or PD type controller proposed by Mamdani (1974). However, fuzzy PID controller design is still a complex task due to the involvement of a large number of parameters in defining the fuzzy rule base. This paper investigates different fuzzy PID controller structures, including the Mamdani-type cont...

The design of controllers for nonlinear systems in industry is a complex and difficult task. One approach which has shown promise for solving nonlinear control problems is the use of fuzzy logic control. This paper proposes a new method utilizing proportional–integral-derivative (PID) control as a hybrid fuzzy PID controller for nonlinear system. The salient feature of the proposed approach is ...