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- From: chuckb@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Bass)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy
- Subject: Re: WHEN and WHY should I use FUZZY logic?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:52:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- gperkins@netcom.com (Glen C. Perkins) writes:
-
- >It's not always as easy as I make it sound, OBVIOUSLY, but
- >tweaking these rules is almost always easier than deriving
- >simultaneous differential equations in multiple variables
- >from first principles!! And a control system based on these
-
- If you don't know how to derive DE's from first principles this
- is probably true. However, it is not *that* difficult, espcially
- with symbolic math tools that have gained popularity over the
- last few years.
-
- >simple fuzzy rules operates much faster than a real-time
- >solution of the differential equations in general.
-
- It may be true that simple fuzzy rules operate faster than
- general solutions to DE's, however when DE's are transformed int
- difference equations it seems to me that it is difficult to be
- more efficient than taking the required sums & products for the
- difference equations.
-
- It seems to me that for each "state" in the fuzzy system you
- will have to go through fuzzify/defuzzify process. Is this in
- general, faster than the solution of the difference equation? Or
- is usually faster?
-
- As I diverge I have a question for large systems. When a fuzzy
- controller is used for a large system (>10 or 20 states) is it
- possible for a human to design the controller or are CAD
- techniques required? In such a system does the speed of the
- fuzzy controller end up being supperior to the traditional
- controller.
-
- chuckb
-