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Fuzzy Logic History and Applications
When Aristotle and his predecessors devised their theories of logic and
mathematics, they came up with the so-called Law of the Excluded Middle, which
states that every proposition must be either true or false. Grass is either green or not
green; it clearly cannot be both green and not green. However, not everyone agreed,
and Plato indicated there was a third region, beyond true and false, where these
opposites "tumbled about."
In the Aristotelian worldview, logic dealt with two values. In the 19th century, George
Boole created a system of algebra and set theory that could deal mathematically with
such two-valued logic, mapping true and false to 1 and 0, respectively. Then in the
early 20th century, Jan Lukasiewicz proposed a three-valued logic (true, possible,
false), which never gained wide acceptance.
In 1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh of the University of California at Berkeley published "Fuzzy
Sets," which laid out the mathematics of fuzzy set theory and, by extension, fuzzy
logic. Zadeh had observed that conventional computer logic could not manipulate
data that represented subjective or vague ideas, so he created fuzzy logic to allow
computers to determine the distinctions among data with shades of gray, similar to
the process of human reasoning.
Although, the technology was introduced in the U.S. and European scientist and
researchers largely ignored it for years, perhaps because of its unconventional
name. They refused to take seriously something that sounded so childlike. Some
mathematicians argued that fuzzy logic was merely probability in disguise. However,
fuzzy logic was readily accepted in Japan, China and other Asian countries. The
greatest number of fuzzy researchers today are found in China, with over 10,000
scientists. Japan, though considered at the leading edge of fuzzy studies, has fewer
people engaged in fuzzy research. A decade ago, the Chinese University of Hong
Kong surveyed consumer products using fuzzy logic, producing a 100-plus-page
report listing washing machines, camcorders, microwave ovens and dozens of other
kinds of electrical and electronic products.
Fuzzy logic applications
Aerospace
In aerospace, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Altitude control of spacecraft
Satellite altitude control
Flow and mixture regulation in aircraft deicing vehicles
Automotive
In automotive, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Trainable fuzzy systems for idle speed control
Shift scheduling method for automatic transmission
Intelligent highway systems
Traffic control
Improving efficiency of automatic transmissions
Business
In business, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Decision-making support systems
Personnel evaluation in a large company
Defense
In defense, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Underwater target recognition
Automatic target recognition of thermal infrared images
Naval decision support aids
Control of a hypervelocity interceptor
Fuzzy set modeling of NATO decision making
Electronics
In electronics, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Control of automatic exposure in video cameras
Humidity in a clean room
Air conditioning systems
Washing machine timing
Microwave ovens
Vacuum cleaners
Finance
In the finance field, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Banknote transfer control
Fund management
Stock market predictions
Industrial Sector
In industrial, fuzzy logic is used in following areas −
Cement kiln controls heat exchanger control
Activated sludge wastewater treatment process control
Water purification plant control
Quantitative pattern analysis for industrial quality assurance
Control of constraint satisfaction problems in structural design
Control of water purification plants
Manufacturing
In the manufacturing industry, fuzzy logic is used in following areas −
Optimization of cheese production
Optimization of milk production
Marine
In the marine field, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Autopilot for ships
Optimal route selection
Control of autonomous underwater vehicles
Ship steering
Medical
In the medical field, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Medical diagnostic support system
Control of arterial pressure during anesthesia
Multivariable control of anesthesia
Modeling of neuropathological findings in Alzheimer's patients
Radiology diagnoses
Fuzzy inference diagnosis of diabetes and prostate cancer
Securities
In securities, fuzzy logic is used in following areas −
Decision systems for securities trading
Various security appliances
Transportation
In transportation, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Automatic underground train operation
Train schedule control
Railway acceleration
Braking and stopping
Pattern Recognition and Classification
In Pattern Recognition and Classification, fuzzy logic is used in the following areas −
Fuzzy logic based speech recognition
Fuzzy logic based
Handwriting recognition
Fuzzy logic based facial characteristic analysis
Command analysis
Fuzzy image search
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