Abstract
Increasing demands for improved profitability and product quality, together with a growing awareness of the effects of industrial wastage on the environment, is forcing manufacturers to closely examine their process operations. As a consequence there is currently significant research and development activity aimed at improving control system strategies in a variety of industrial sectors. Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in fuzzy logic and rule-based control strategies and, by considering two illustrative industrial case studies, this paper highlights some of the potential advantages.
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James, D.J.G., Burnham, K.J. A fuzzy-logic approach to industrial control problems. Artificial Life and Robotics 1, 59–63 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471115
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