ABSTRACT
The fuzzy control technique was first initiated by the pioneering research of Mamdani (Mamdani, 1974, 1977; Mamdani and Assilian, 1975) for systems structurally difficult to model, which was motivated by Zadeh’s paper on system analysis with fuzzy sets theory (Zadeh, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1975). Since then, fuzzy control theory has become one of the most extensively studied areas in both academia and industry. Many theoretical developments and practical applications have been reported. It is an appealing alternative to conventional control methods since it provides a systematic and efficient framework to deal with uncertainties and nonlinearities in complex systems, when an accurate system analytical model is not available, not possible to obtain, or too complicated to use for control purposes. In this chapter, different fuzzy control schemes are explained in each section with individual example to give readers an easy understanding of the fuzzy controllers’ working principle.
