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C W Tao¹, J S Taur

¹Nat. I-Lan Inst. of Technol.

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A new flexible approach reduces the complexity of PID-like fuzzy controllers by combining inputs. This method enhances performance and stability without needing a plant model, confirmed by simulations.

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Area of Science:

Control Engineering
Fuzzy Logic Systems
Artificial Intelligence in Control

Background:

Traditional PID-like fuzzy controllers often suffer from high complexity.
Reducing controller complexity can lead to performance degradation due to decreased degrees of freedom.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a flexible complexity-reduced design approach for PID-like fuzzy controllers.
To improve the performance and maintain stability of simplified fuzzy PID controllers.

Main Methods:

Utilizing a linear combination of input variables to reduce fuzzy mechanism complexity.
Introducing heuristically generated functional scaling factors to enhance performance.
Analyzing the stability of the proposed fuzzy control system.

Main Results:

The proposed approach significantly reduces the complexity of PID-like fuzzy controllers.
Heuristically generated scaling factors alleviate performance degradation without increasing complexity.
Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and stability of the designed controller.

Conclusions:

The flexible complexity-reduced design approach offers an effective way to simplify PID-like fuzzy controllers.
This method allows for easy adjustment of scaling factors without prior plant knowledge.
The approach enhances controller performance and ensures system stability.