APPLICATION OF FUZZY LOGIC TOOLBOX FOR MODELLING FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS

Computer technology, which has been developing very fast in the recent years, can be also fruitfully applied in teaching. For example, the software package Matlab is highly useful in teaching students at Bachelor Programs of Electrical Engineering and Automatics and Robotics. Fuzzy Logic Toolbox of the Matlab package can be used for designing and modelling controllers. Thanks to a large number of pre-defined elements available in the libraries, it is possible to create even highly complicated models of systems without much effort. Fuzzy Logic Toolbox is especially useful for exploring the basic rules of designing fuzzy logic controllers. The rules involve selecting input and output membership functions, determining their location with respect to one another and defining their ranges. When the membership functions are introduced, a rule base is defined and a defuzzification method is selected. For any defuzzification method, a control surface is obtained, which can be modified by changing the rule base and/or the input and output parameters of the membership function.