Adaptive fuzzy controller: Application to the control of the temperature of a dynamic room in real time

This paper presents a direct adaptive fuzzy controller for unknown monotonic nonlinear systems, thus not requiring the system model, but only a little information about it: the plant monotonicity and its delay. Without any off-line pre-training, the algorithm achieves very high control performance through a three-stage algorithm: (1) output scale factor, (2) adaptation of the fuzzy rule consequents and (3) optimization of the position of the membership functions. The design is simple, in the sense that both the membership functions and the rule-base can be initialized from arbitrary values. It can be applied to a large class of monotonic dynamic or static plants, due the fact that the system is able to modify its behaviour in real time, i.e., during the control process. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.