title: A fuzzy inference engine in nonlinear analog mode and its application to a fuzzy logic control.
abstract: In this tutorial, the utility of a fuzzy system is demonstrated by providing a broad overview, emphasizing analog mode hardware, along with a discussion of the author's original work. First, the difference between deterministic words and fuzzy words is explained as well as fuzzy logic. The description of the system using mathematical equations, linguistic rules, or parameter distributions (e.g., neural networks) is discussed. Fuzzy inference and defuzzification algorithms are presented, and their hardware implementation is discussed. The fuzzy logic controller was used to stabilize a glass with wine balanced on a finger and a mouse moving around a plate on the tip of an inverted pendulum.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Control Eng. and Sci., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Fukuoka.
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authors.lastname: Yamakawa