Control functions of fuzzy controllers (Q597335)

The study is concerned with the analysis of the geometry of a certain class of fuzzy controllers. Discussed are single input/single output and two input/single output fuzzy controllers realized in the following framework: (a) inference is implemented by means of the max-\(t\) composition, (b) rules are combined using various implication operators, (c) the numerical (defuzzified) control is computed by the centroid method, (d) all fuzzy sets are described by triangular membership functions with an overlap of \(1/2\) occurring between neighbouring linguistic terms. The input-output characteristics of the controller are investigated with respect to the available design parameters including various implication operators. They are also contrasted with the characteristics of a multilevel relay controller with emphasis on expressing the smoothness and nonlinearity of the resulting input-output control dependencies.