CpE521APPLIEDFUZZYLOGIC.docVIP

CpE521: APPLIED FUZZY LOGIC Instructor: Dr. Powsiri Klinkhachorn Assignment # II Fuzzy Toolbox for Current Flow Submitted By: Ramesh Kumar V Khajjayam rkhajjay@ 899 01 7567 Date: 02/13/2004. FUZZY LOGIC Introduction: The past few years have witnessed a rapid growth in the number and variety of applications of fuzzy logic. The applications range from consumer products such as cameras, camcorders, washing machines, and microwave ovens to industrial process control, medical instrumentation, decision-support systems, and portfolio selection. To understand the reasons for the growing use of fuzzy logic it is necessary, first, to clarify what is meant by fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic has two different meanings. In a narrow sense, fuzzy logic is a logical system, which is an extension of multivalued logic. But in a wider sense, which is in predominant use today, fuzzy logic (FL) is almost synonymous with the theory of fuzzy sets, a theory which relates to classes of objects with unsharp boundaries in which membership is a matter of degree. In this perspective, fuzzy logic in its narrow sense is a branch of FL. What is important to recognize is that, even in its narrow sense, the agenda of fuzzy logic is very different both in spirit and substance from the agendas of traditional multivalued logical systems. What do you mean Fuzzy??? Before illustrating the mechanisms which make fuzzy logic machines work, it is important to realize what fuzzy logic actually is. Fuzzy logic is a superset of conventional (Boolean) logic that has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth- truth values between completely true and completely false. As its name suggests, it is the logic underlying modes of reasoning which are approximate rather than exact. The importance of fuzzy logic derives from the fact that most modes of human reasoning and especially common sense reasoning are approximate in nature.The essential characteristics of fuzzy logic as founded by Zadeh Lotfi are as fo