News Letter Volume 5 Number 1 ERUDIT

EU ERUDIT Activities / Report



The Training and Education Committee -
Student Exchange regarding Fuzzy Control

Manuel Olivares, IAU, January 1999.

Trip Report

Motivated by the results of my learning after 10 internet lessons in 1998, Professor Jantzen invited me for a short visit to the Department of Automation (IAU), Denmark, in January 1999. During 12 days I had the opportunity to work with a laboratory rig of a cart-ball system and to make some experiments with fuzzy learning techniques.

Internet Fuzzy Control Course Experience

The course combines theory and practise based on a Matlab graphical software simulator of a cart-ball unstable system (figure 1), and a supporting book about fuzzy sets and control. The main fuzzy control concepts are well explained and verified by means of simulator assignments, a very good way to get hands on experience with control by means of fuzzy logic.

Cartball

Cartball


Research Work

Although the course covers from basic to high level supervisory fuzzy control, there is still some work to do on fuzzy learning using self-organising controller (SOC) and learning techniques (ANFIS), topics that I am interested to work in, and to collaborate with the fuzzy internet course update. Specifically, during my staying at IAU, I made some experiments with SOC, setting up some Matlab-Simulink discrete s-functions for the cart-ball system, described in a technical report (Olivares & Jantzen, 1999) available to ERUDIT and others. Also, the next edition of the Internet course will include some of my work. The plan is to return in the autumn of 1999 for three months. I gratefully acknowledge the European Network of Excellence ERUDIT the support of this research opportunity.

Reference

Olivares, M., J. Jantzen. Some Experiments with the Self-Organising Controller. Technical report 99-E-882, January 1999. http://www.iau.dtu.dk/~jj/pubs.

Manuel Olivares is a doctoral student in Fuzzy Control under the supervision of Professor P. Albertos at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Department of Systems Engineering and Control, Valencia, Spain.



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